Fellowships

Research Fellowships, NIH Training Grant
Richard L. Edelson, MD, Director

MOHS Surgery Fellowship
Dermatopathology Fellowship

The faculty of the Yale University Department of Dermatology trains future leaders of academic dermatology, in a program which has been carefully integrated with strong investigators in other departments. Our department provides an environment which facilitates the training of research dermatologists: sixteen of the nineteen full time faculty members maintain active laboratory research programs, and the other three direct creative clinical research programs. Because we consider it most conducive to the trainees' development of intellectual independence and to the introduction of new scientific strength into the dermatology community, maximal exposure to outstanding Yale University basic scientists outside of our department will continue to be mandatory. Each trainee has two primary advisors: one inside and one outside the Dermatology Department, and research is performed in the laboratory of one of these advisors. For the past three years, the scientific collaborations between the dermatology and non-dermatology faculties interested in cutaneous biology have been further enhanced by the new NIH Yale Skin Disease Research Center (YSDRC). The non-dermatology Yale advisors for this training grant proposal have been selected because of their regular interaction with the YSDRC or fellows supported by this grant. Of the twelve post-doctoral fellows who have completed their training during the current period, nine have continued active research, five as faculty members in dermatology departments, one in basic science department and four in training programs. They have published extensively, and four have won national awards for their research accomplishments. Training will continue to be offered at several levels in the biological and clinical aspects of benign and malignant pigment cells, of keratinocyte growth and differentiation, of microvasculature structure and wound healing, in the study of malignant human T lymphocytes, in basic molecular and cellular immunology and in photochemistry.

Current trainees on training grant

• Keith Choate, MD, PhD
• Oscar Colegio, MD, PhD
• Elaine Gilmore, MD, PhD
• Lisan Peng, MD
• Brian Poligone, MD, PhD
• Juan Vasquez, MD

Dermatology Faculty on training grant

• Carole Berger, PhD
• Jean Bolognia, MD
• Irwin M. Braverman, MD
• Richard L. Edelson, MD
• Michael Girardi, MD
• Ruth Halaban, PhD
• David Leffell, MD
• Leonard Milstone, MD
• John Pawelek, PhD
• Pauline Schwartz, PhD
• Robert E. Tigelaar, MD

Mentors and collaborators on training grant

• Allen E. Bale, MD, Director DNA Diagnostics
• Douglas E. Brash, PhD, Associate Professor, Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Richard Bucala, MD, Professor Rheumatology, Pathology
• Peter Cresswell, PhD, Professor Immunobiology
• Daniel C. DiMaio, MD, PhD, Professor Genetics
• Francine Foss, MD, Professor Oncology
• Peter M. Glazer, MD, PhD, Asst. Professor, Therapeutic Radiology
• Adrian C. Hayday, PhD, Assoc. Professor Biology
• Richard Lifton, MD, PhD, Professor and Chair, Genetics
• Jordan S. Pober, MD, PhD, Director Molecular Cardiology Program
• Mark J. Shlomchik, MD, PhD, Associate Professor Immunobiology
• John Sedivy, PhD, Associate Professor MBB
• William Sessa, MD, Professor Pharmacology
• Joan A. Steitz, PhD, Professor of MBB
• Stephen G. Waxman, MD, PhD, Professor and Chair, Neurology
• Sherman M. Weissman, MD, Sterling Professor, Genetics & Medicine