The founding chair of the Department of Dermatology, Dr. Gary Wood, is retiring this summer. Read an interview with Dr. Wood to hear him reflect on his career and his time here in the UW Department of Dermatology.
Faculty Highlights
Faculty Highlight: Beth A. Drolet, MD
Restoring Healthcare Innovation to Academic Medicine As Chair of the Dermatology Department, Beth Drolet, MD, strives to promote collaborative research to tackle the challenges encountered during patient care. During her tenure, she has built a …
A Farewell Interview with Jack Longley, MD
After a career of nearly 40 years, Dr. Longley retired at the end of 2021. Read an interview with Jack to hear him reflect on his career and his time here in the UW Department of Dermatology.
Faculty Highlight: Gloria Xu, MD, PhD
Curing Cancer With A Surgeon’s Knife A micrographic surgeon, Gloria Xu, MD, PhD, is building a library of skin cancer samples that can be used by fellow researchers to seek out innovative therapies and medicines. …
Faculty Highlight: Stefan Schieke, MD
“While we have known for a very long time that your diet affects your body and health, we are only beginning to appreciate that the same is true for the cells and their choice of fuel within our body.”
Faculty Highlight: Lisa Arkin, MD
Dr. Arkin is pushing the boundaries of laser treatment by combining it with new research that shows that vascular stains like birthmarks and port-wine stains are caused by the same genetic changes that cause cancer.