Ronald P. Rapini, MD is Josey Professor and Chair of the Department of Dermatology and the Director of the Mohs Clinic at the University of Texas Health Science Center and MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He is the author of Practical Dermatopathology, 2nd Edition. Of the first edition, the British Journal of Hospital Medicine said, “Essential reading for junior pathologists and dermatologists and would be ideally placed next to your microscope.”
In his current position as department chair, Dr. Rapini has led the program into several top rankings, including the title Clinical Center of Excellence. Several of his trainees went on to national recognition including receiving the AMA Foundation Leadership Award.
Dr. Rapini received his medical degree from Ohio State University and completed an internship at Marshfield Clinic in Marshfield, Wisconsin. He performed a residency at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and a fellowship in dermatopathology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. He is board certified in dermatology and dermatopathology, and is a Diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners.
Dr. Rapini’s clinical and research interests include clinical-pathological correlations in skin disease, dermatopathology, and dermatologic surgery.
Dr. Rapini has served as the president of the American Board of Dermatology, the American Society of Dermatopathology, the American Society for Mohs Surgery, and the Texas Dermatological Society. Several society awards have recognized his work, he has been the recipient of numerous awards for excellence in teaching, and he has been named a U.S. News Top Doctor. Among his clinical achievements, he described the first case of swimmer’s itch to occur in exposed skin and described the first case of herpetic paronychia occurring in an atopic patient while on isotretinoin therapy for acne. Dr. Rapini also confirmed that the incidence of epidermolytic hyperkeratosis is higher in association with dysplastic nevi than in ordinary melanocytic nevi and may serve as a marker for NAD.
“Dermatology provides the cake, while your teachers and clinical experiences add the icing,” – Jean L. Bolognia, MD
I wanted the book to provide a logical and practical approach to dermatology. In a sense, Dermatology provides the cake, while your teachers and clinical experiences add the icing. Other textbooks may give you the whole cake plus the icing, but those texts become so huge that it’s almost impossible to get through them on a yearly or every other year basis. So the hope with Dermatology is that residents can read the whole book in a year and clinicians can easily access information while seeing patients. We also included “Key features” throughout the book so early on in your career, you can master one or two key features per disease, providing a sense of accomplishment. During medical school and internship, you learn about hundreds of medical disorders but you only learn about 20, or at most 30, skin diseases. However, there are over a thousand dermatologic diseases. This can be simply overwhelming so it is very important to have a solid framework upon which to build new knowledge.
We try very hard to give the reader enough basic science to understand, for example, new drugs and their mechanisms of action, as well as new molecular techniques. Without that background information, modern advances would just be memorized rather than understood. However, we don’t confuse readers with a long litany of exceptions and unnecessary details. We use schematics such that you look at the schematic first, then you read the text, allowing for an overall visual image. The schematics allow complex processes to become much easier to understand.
For the second edition, we spent a lot of time on tables. We wanted the practicing physician, who oftentimes during a busy clinic has literally less than a minute to access information regarding less common entities in the differential diagnosis, to be able to obtain up-to-date information easily. For this third edition, we increased the number of schematics and clinicopathologic correlations – we now have the clinical photographs side-by-side with the histologic photomicrographs. This way the reader can better understand why a lesion or rash looks the way it does as well as appreciate important histologic features. In addition, there are almost 1500 new figures in the book.
Bio
Jean L. Bolognia, MD, is a Professor of Dermatology at Yale University, School of Medicine. She has served as President of the Medical Dermatology Society and the Women’s Dermatologic Society as well as Vice-President of the Society of Investigative Dermatology, the International Society of Dermatology and American Dermatological Association. Jean was elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Dermatology, the International League of Dermatological Societies and the American Board of Dermatology, where she is incoming Vice-President.
Dr. Bolognia was the major driving force behind the two-volume reference Dermatology, currently in its 3rd edition. She also was an associate editor of two editions of Dermatological Signs of Internal Disease.
Related Authors: Joseph L. Jorizzo, MD; Julie V. Schaffer, MD
Julie V. Schaffer, MD is Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Pediatrics and Director of Pediatric Dermatology within the Department of Dermatology at New York University School of Medicine. She is an author of the third edition of Dermatology: 2-Volume Set.
Dr. Schaffer earned her MD at Yale School of Medicine. She completed her both internship and residency training at Yale, in pediatrics and dermatology respectively, before moving to New York to finish a fellowship in dermatology at NYU Medical Center. She is board certified in both dermatology and pediatric dermatology. Dr. Schaffer has particular medical expertise in hair diseases, urticarial and hives, vitiligo, pediatric dermatology, dermatologic surgery, psoriasis, and others.
Related Authors: Jean L. Bolognia, MD
Jean Carruthers, MD, FRCSC, is Clinical Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where she specializes in facial cosmetic surgery. Along with her husband, Dr. Alastair Carruthers, she is the co-author of Botulinum Toxin, 3rd Edition and Soft Tissue Augmentation, 3rd Edition, both titles in the Procedures in Cosmetic Dermatology Series.
Dr. Carruthers received her medical degree from the University of British Columbia and completed her ophthalmology residency at the Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital in London. She completed her post-residency studies in ophthalmology at the University of British Columbia and the University of California in San Francisco. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Cosmetic Surgery and a Fellow of the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. She has authored more than 250 scientific articles and book chapters and has been invited to give many presentations worldwide on topics in cosmetic surgery.
With her husband, Dr. Alastair Carruthers, she pioneered the cosmetic use of botulinum A exotoxin and has remained at the forefront of research and teaching about this procedure. Dr. Carruthers has been profiled in numerous publications including Best Doctors in Canada, the New York Times, Allure magazine, Time, Newsweek, and Vogue. The American Academy of Dermatology recently awarded Dr. Alastair Carruthers and Dr. Jean Carruthers with the 2012 Eugene J. Van Scott Award for Innovative Therapy of the Skin, recognizing the Carruthers’ introduction of botulinum toxin A for clinical use in dermatology.
Related Authors: Jeffrey S. Dover, MD; Murad Alam, MD; Alastair Carruthers, MD
Alastair Carruthers, MA, BM, BCh, FRCP(Lon), FRCPC, is Clinical Professor of Dermatology with the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia, and is in private practice at The Carruthers Clinic in Vancouver. Along with his wife, Dr. Jean Carruthers, he is the author of Botulinum Toxin, 3rd Edition and Soft Tissue Augmentation, 3rd Edition, both titles in the Procedures in Cosmetic Dermatology Series.
Dr. Carruthers received his medical degree from Brasenose College, Oxford, did his dermatology residency at St. John’s Hospital for Diseases of the Skin in London, and completed his graduate studies in dermatologic surgery at the University of California, San Francisco.
During his 20 years of practice, Dr. Carruthers has made several major contributions to the field of dermatology, the foremost being the use of BOTOX® for cosmetic applications, a discovery he made with his wife, Dr. Jean Carruthers, in 1987. He has over 100 published articles to his credit and has authored numerous books. He is a member of several professional associations, including the American Dermatological Association and the Canadian Dermatology Association, where he served as president from 1998 to 1999. In addition, he was president of the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery during 2006-2007. The American Academy of Dermatology recently awarded Dr. Alastair Carruthers and Dr. Jean Carruthers with the 2012 Eugene J. Van Scott Award for Innovative Therapy of the Skin, recognizing the Carruthers’ introduction of botulinum toxin A for clinical use in dermatology.
Related Authors: Jeffrey S. Dover, MD, FRCPC; Murad Alam, MD
Bryan E. Anderson, MD is Associate Professor of Dermatology at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey. He is author of The Netter Collection of Medical Illustrations – Integumentary System, 2nd Edition.
Dr. Anderson is a clinician and researcher working to identify cancer cell markers based on excisions of cancerous lesions. He earned his MD at Ohio State University and continued his medical education with an internship in internal medicine and a residency in dermatology at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. He is committed to active service in many professional associations, and is chair of the American Contact Dermatitis Society Meeting Planning, treasurer of the Pennsylvania Academy of Dermatology, and chair of the Self-Assessment Task Force of the American Academy of Dermatology, among many other affiliations.
“The Derm Deck is a very effective and fun way to access the information. It’s also portable. It’s thin; it’s sleek; it fits in your pocket; and people seem to really enjoy using it.” – Dr. James Dinulos
I think what makes the Dermatology DDX Deck, 2nd Edition different from other available educational tools is that the Derm Deck makes it extremely easy to access the information. There are photos on one side and information about the skin disorder on the opposite side of the page, so doctors and students can use it to quiz themselves. It’s a very effective and fun way to access the information. It’s also portable. It’s thin; it’s sleek; it fits in your pocket; and people seem to really enjoy using it.
Primary care doctors use it. Trainees in medical school, all the way through residency absolutely love it. Plus, they use it to study for the boards, as well as to study for their internal medicine, dermatology, or family practice rotations. I think doctors and students enjoy the ease of access.
I imagine that the Dermatology DDX Deck will be very popular in other countries. It is extremely affordable, which makes it accessible to people who don’t have a lot of money to spend on books. With the Derm Deck, they have tremendous opportunity to have high-quality images and accurate, up-to-date information at a reasonable cost.
James G. H. Dinulos, MD is an assistant professor of medicine and pediatrics at Dartmouth Medical School. He has particular interest in the field of pediatric dermatology. With several dozen publications to his name, he is an expert in the field, and an editor of the second edition of the Dermatology DDX Deck, 2nd Edition and Skin Disease, 3rd Edition.
Dr. Dinulos completed his medical education at Eastern Virginia Medical School and his residency at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Among his professional affiliations is his membership in the National Psoriasis Foundation.
Related Authors: Thomas P. Habif, MD; James L. Campbell, Jr., MD, MS; M. Shane Chapman, MD; Kathryn A. Zug, MD
“We wanted to stay away from giant tomes…so instead we wrote the Procedures in Cosmetic Dermatology series with individual volumes that focus on the practical aspects of each procedure.” – Dr. Murad Alam
In the area of fillers, there’s been a gradual evolution from just trying to fill in one specific line, or one indented scar, to really looking at the entire face and where they need to pumped up. It’s a holistic approach. I think we’re moving beyond the trees and looking more at the forest, which requires a different set of techniques. There are also improvements in post-operative times. We’ve historically called these filler procedures lunchtime procedures. But people routinely got quite badly bruised and they really weren’t comfortable going back to work, or to social engagements. Now we have cannulas that we can inject in such a manner that we don’t need sharp needles, which puncture vessels, so we are able to minimize bruising.
We’ve been trying to make these procedures maximally effectively and safe for patients. There are a lot of refinements in making sure they don’t bruise, or become too red, that it’s not too painful, that they get the right filler from all of the fillers that are available, and that we don’t just fix one line, but that we fix everything. The goal with these procedures is to make patients look and feel as good as they can.
The reason for the interest in this particular series has been the rapid evolution in minimally invasive cosmetic procedures that has come about in the last ten years or so in dermatology. It has really created a need for books that are up-to-date and practical to help people learn how to do procedures step-by-step, safely and effectively. In particular with this series, we wanted to stay away from giant tomes that cover everything from basic science to clinical applications and include every single procedure, so instead we wrote the Procedures in Cosmetic Dermatology series with individual volumes that focus on the practical aspects of each procedure. The series includes volumes on everything from neurotoxins, botulinum toxins, soft tissue augmentation, chemical peels, liposuction, to even more invasive procedures, such as facelifts, as well as very novel procedures like body-contouring, and skin tightening and lifting. I’ve been very active with a couple of volumes, like Treatment of Leg Veins and Non-Surgical Skin Tightening and Lifting, for which I was author and editor. But, for all of them Dr. Jeffrey Dover and I have been very hands-on because we’re really trying to make sure that we have a systematic message and theme that carries through all of the books.
All of volumes come with videos, which are tied into specific chapters and narrated by experts. Even if you read a clear description of a procedure there’s still a lot of ambiguity as to exactly how you hold a needle, and how far you push, and what it should look like when it’s in action. So, the video takes a lot of that mystery out and you can see people who are expert injectors, for instance, doing the procedure and you can model your own behavior on them. It’s also nice to hear tips about refining the procedure, which make more sense when they’re heard in the context of observing the procedure.
Biography
Dr. Murad Alam is a professor of dermatology, otolaryngology, and surgery, and chief of the Section of Cutaneous and Aesthetic Surgery at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. As author of more than 100 publications, a member of several editorial boards, and editor of 20 books, he is recognized as a leading authority in the field. He is an editor of the Procedures in Cosmetic Dermatology series – Non-Surgical Skin Tightening and Lifting and Treatment of Leg Veins.
Dr. Alam completed both his undergraduate and medical degrees at Yale University, and his residency at Columbia University. He held fellowships in laser and cosmetic surgery at SkinCare Physicians/Harvard Medical School in Boston, and Mohs micrographic surgery at DermSurgery Associates/Baylor in Houston. He has received research funding from the American Society of Dermatologic Surgery and the Skin Cancer Foundation for his research in the field.
He is a member of the board of directors of the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery, and is an advisor to the AMA-CPT Committee that oversees definitions for surgical procedures for the U.S. Committed to philanthropy, he has served as president of the Blade and Light Society, an organization of volunteer surgeons.
Related Authors: Jeffrey S. Dover, MD; Alastair Carruthers, MA; Jean Carruthers, MD; George Hruza, MD
“The appeal of the Derm Deck is that it’s easy to transport and readily available for people who need a brief update on what they’re seeing in the clinic in real time.” – Dr. Shane Chapman
I attended medical school at the University of Texas at Houston and was on track to become an internist. I had never rotated through dermatology and didn’t really know anything about the specialty until I was intern in internal medicine and got my first glimpse of skin, skin disease, and dermatology. I took a pretty unconventional route in that I became interested in dermatology after medical school. I applied for dermatology residencies after internship and was lucky enough to get a dermatology residency at Dartmouth-Hitchcock one year after graduating from medical school.
One of the new, exciting, and cutting edge things that is happening in dermatology is laser availability and improved technology in light, laser and photo therapy. Monoclonal antibodies are now a mainstay in dermatologic treatment for inflammatory diseases and cancers—psoriasis in particular. So in the book and in the Dermatology Deck we’ve tried to incorporate both laser cosmetic procedures, complications of those procedures, as well as incorporating the newer therapies that are out there, including the monoclonal antibody therapies, the injectable therapies for psoriasis and other diseases. Also, many dermatologists these days are travelling to underdeveloped countries to volunteer. So, we’ve put a section in the book for travel medicine and travel dermatology that includes diseases that we don’t see very often in the United States. If you do any travelling to Central America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, you’ll see some very different diseases, mostly infectious in nature.
Several years ago, a colleague at Dartmouth, Dr. Thomas Habif, approached me to write a succinct dermatology textbook that was geared toward the early-stage dermatology resident. It was a basic, not encyclopedic, dermatology textbook with really great photographs and very clear writing on the basis of disease and basic treatment options. That book, Skin Disease, is now in the third edition, and has taken off. I think the photographs are its major appeal to most dermatologists and non-dermatologists. The photographs are large and very clear, which helps in the clinic with diagnosis, both for dermatologists and non-dermatologists. It’s been very well received by the people who buy it and read it.
In addition to Skin Disease, the other publication that we have with Elsevier is the Dermatology DDX Deck, which is a new type of media for education. The Derm Deck is a laminated, bound deck of cards that you can easily put in your pocket. Like the textbook, it has great photographs, but it also has very brief blurbs of the diagnosis and treatment of the diseases on the backside of the card. It contains the most common 200 or so dermatologic diseases, so the appeal is that it’s easy to transport and readily available for people who need a brief update on what they’re seeing in the clinic in real time. It’s very different from any other media that’s out there today. Also, both Skin Disease and the Derm Deck have been translated into multiple languages, including Mandarin Chinese, which I don’t think, at this point, has been done by another textbook.
M. Shane Chapman, MD, serves as section chief of dermatology within the Department of Surgery at Dartmouth Medical School. Among his specialties are cutaneous oncology and melanoma immunotherapy, psoriasis, and laser and light therapy. He is an author of the Dermatology DDX Deck and the third edition of Skin Disease.
Dr. Chapman holds an MD from the University of Texas at Houston Medical School. He completed an internship in internal medicine at the University of Texas at Houston Medical School and a residency in dermatology at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. He is board certified in dermatology.
Related Authors: Thomas P. Habif, MD; James L. Campbell, Jr., MD, MS; James G. H. Dinulos, MD; Kathryn A. Zug, MD
George J. Hruza, MD is Clinical Associate Professor of Dermatology and Otolaryngology at Saint Louis University Medical School and director of the Laser & Dermatologic Surgery Center. He has authored more than 130 publications, and serves on the editorial boards of several journals including Dermatologic Surgery, Lasers in Surgery and Medicine, Journal of Cosmetic and Laser Therapy, and Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, among others. He is an author of Lasers and Lights, 3rd Edition, a volume in the Procedures in Cosmetic Dermatology series.
Dr. Hruza served as program chair of the American Society of Laser Medicine and Surgery 2003 Annual Meeting. He is a certified diplomate of the American Board of Dermatology, the American Board of Mohs Micrographic Surgery and Cutaneous Oncology and the American Board of Laser Surgery. Dr. Hruza has been listed in St. Louis Magazine as one of the top doctors in the St. Louis area for more than 10 years.
Related Authors: Jeffrey S. Dover, MD; Murad Alam, MD; Jean Carruthers, MD; Alastair Carruthers, MA, BM, BCh
