News

Duke Dermatology clinicians, residents, and medical students volunteered at TROSA for cancer screenings. 

AIM at Melanoma and Duke are collaborating to host and event to address the many unmet medical and psychological needs of those living with melanoma.

Please join me in congratulating one of our second year residents, Diana Norton, on winning the award for the best resident presentation at the NC Dermatology Association Summer meeting this past weekend in Hot Springs, VA.  Diana presented a case entitled " A Rare Cause of Breast Ulceration: Diffuse Angiomatosis of the Breast.

Welcome our new residents to Dermatology!  They will be starting with us July 1st and eager to work.

We congratulate Joanna Hooten, Reed Garza, and Elizabeth Schell Bressler on completing their residency.

Dr. Christopher Henderson, an incoming Duke Dermatology resident, won the AppleSeed Resident Teaching Award from Duke medical students for his excellent teaching during his intern year in Internal Medicine at Duke.

The American Society of Dermatopathology (ASDP) has selected M. Angelica Selim, MD to receive the 21st Annual Walter R. Nickel Award for Excellence in Teaching of Dermatopathology.

Dermatology faculty, researchers, and medical students attended the Society for Investigative Dermatology Annual Meeting in Portland, OR April 26-29, 2017.  They presided over symposia, presented abstracts, and attended talks.

Dr. A Rambi Cardones, Assistant Clinician-Research Professor of Dermatology, received an award from the Duke Health Scholars competition for her work “Pathogenesis and treatment of cutaneous graft vs. host disease.”

Dr. Amanda MacLeod, Assistant Research Professor of Dermatology, was awarded the Dermatology Foundation Research Grant for her work “Role of IL-27 Signaling in Cutaneous Regeneration and Host Defense.” She was among four researchers who received the research grant and 52 of researchers that received grants from the Dermatology Foundation this year.