Dermatology had three new clinicians join us this year!
Tarannum Jaleel, MD, graduated with honors from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2007, where she majored in Biophysics with a minor in Spanish. she was subsequently selected to the Fulbright Scholar Program in 2007, which supported her work with the European Institute of Women's Health in Ireland. She completed her medical school education at the University of Alabama Birmingham School of Medicine in 2012 and was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha. She has completed Lumbreras course on tropical medicine in Lima, Peru in 2012 and has returned for several tropical dermatology electives subsequently during her training. Following internship at the Boston University Medical Center, she completed her dermatology residency at her alma mater in 2016, where she received the Walter P. Little award for her leadership qualities and dedication to the profession. She will join the faculty of Duke Dermatology, where she will pursue her clinical and research interest in autoimmunity, oncodermatology, and immunotherapeutics. She is also enrolled in the DUSOM's Clinical Research Training Program (CRTP) to pursue a Master of Health Sciences in Clinical Research. Michael Raisch, MD, graduated from Duke University School of Medicine in 2012 where he was inducted in the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. Following his Internal Medicine internship at Cone Health in Greensboro, NC, he came back to his alma mater to train in our Dermatology Residency Program in 2016 where he served as Organizational Chief Resident. He will join our community dermatology practice in the Wakefield area of Raleigh as a full time clinician focusing on general dermatology, cosmetic dermatology, and the surgical treatment of benign and malignant skin growths.
Lynn McKinley-Grant, MD, completed her medical school training at Harvard University School of Medicine in 1980. She then completed her internal medicine residency at Boston City Hospital in 1983 and her dermatology residency at New York University in 1986. She had additional training in the Dermatology Branch in the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health from 1986- 1988. She has continued her professional career in Washington DC at Georgetown and Washington Hospital Center. She has had a pivotal role in education having been founder and co-director of the Internal Medicine/Dermatology Residency Program at Washington Hospital Center from 2009 – 2012. She has developed novel programs utilizing the visual arts in the training of physicians in improving observational skills. She has also been involved in using this training to address issues of implicit bias in medical practice. Dr. McKinley-Grant has also been active in education nationally speaking at national meetings of the American Academy of Dermatology and the International Society of Dermatopathology. She is participating in the AAMC Leadership Education and Development Certificate program and has been an active participant the Center for innovation and Leadership in Education (CENTILE) at Georgetown.
Dr. McKinley-Grant has joined our Department with a clinical focus on cutaneous T cell lymphoma and to develop a skin of color clinical effort. In addition, we have asked her to serve as Vice-Chair for Diversity and Community Engagement. In this role she will help us expand our role in the identification and recruitment of underrepresented individuals into our residency program, research laboratories and ultimately onto the faculty. She will also focus on improving our community interaction in established clinics such as Lincoln and in new programs to improve recognition and treatment of skin disease in our community’s minority and disadvantaged populations. In addition, she will be working with our residency program developing programs focused on using the arts to improve visual recognition and diagnosis.