News and Events

May 7, 2012
Melanoma Monday Free Skin Cancer Screenings
Dermatologic Surgery and Laser Center at the University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview
4th Floor, Room 4-175 of the Phillips Wangensteen Building
516 Delaware Street, SE in Minneapolis
This year marks the 28th Anniversary of Melanoma Monday, the free skin-cancer screening event sponsored by the American Academy of Dermatology.  The screening is free and offered to the public from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The screenings are first-come first-served, no appointments necessary. Dermatologists at the University of Minnesota Medical Center-Fairview will perform full or partial body checks. Literature and sunscreen samples will also be available.

New Combined Rheumatology-Dermatology Clinic

The combined rheumatology-dermatology clinic has been functioning as a referral clinic, helping patients with connective tissue diseases that have both skin and systemic manifestations. In addition to helping formulate complex diagnoses and making recommendations regarding treatment options, the clinic will also function as a teaching clinic under the supervision of faculty members from both rheumatology and dermatology. Currently, the faculty members supervising the clinic are Dr. John Fenyk, Professor of Dermatology at the University of Minnesota, and Dr. Peter Schlesinger, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Rheumatology) at HCMC. To make referrals to the clinic please call (612) 873-2020 and fax the patient’s medical records to (612) 904-4440 with attention rheumatology nurse.

Clinical Research Division Recruiting Study Subjects

The Clinical Research Division in the Department of Dermatology conducts ongoing studies of novel therapeutic agents. The Division is currently enrolling subjects for studies in alopecia areata, psoriasis, cutaneous T cell lymphoma, atopic dermatitis and discoid lupus erythematosus. We are also recruiting for normal control subjects. Please contact the clinical research office at 612-624-5721 for more information or to see if you qualify.

Resident Elections

We are very pleased to announce that the following residents have been elected for the 2012-2013 academic year. They will begin to transition into their new leadership roles over the next few months.

Chief Residents: Matthew Beal, MD and Todd Seelhammer, MD
Med Derm Chief Residents: Laura Furda, MD, and Andrea Morris, MD
Education Representative: Holly Engasser, MD
Graduate Medical Education Representative: Erin Luxenberg, MD
Graduate Medical Education Alternate Representative:
Cat Manabat, MD and Noah Goldfarb, MD
Dermatopathology Resident: Ioanna Panoutsopoulou, MD
Grand Rounds Resident: Jennifer Hayes, MD

Dermatology Presents at ACGME Annual Conference

On Friday, March 2, 2012, PGY-4 Dermatology resident Angela Lamb, MD, gave an oral presentation at the annual conference of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) in Orlando, Florida. The poster, R2R: Resident to Resident Teaching of Dermatology Procedures: an Interdisciplinary Educational Innovation, was one of ten selected for oral presentation out of 260 submissions. The work was authored by Lamb, Neal Foman, MD, MS, Rehana Ahmed, MD, PhD, Joseph Brocato, PhD (U of MN Department of Family Medicine), Ben Bornsztein, PhD, and Maria Hordinsky, MD.

With more than 2,200 medical educators representing 9,000 GME programs in 133 specialties and subspecialties, and 125,000 residents and fellows, the ACGME Meeting at Disney was massive and impressive. The University of Minnesota Department of Dermatology had special visibility, and many attendees inquired about our R2R experience and requested advice on how to design and implement a similar program at sites as diverse as Chicago, St. Louis, New Orleans, and Seattle.

The University of Minnesota Department of Dermatology, with its residency programs in Dermatology, Combined Internal Medicine and Dermatology, and its fellowship in Procedural Dermatology, is the vanguard of educational developments in the field. For more ACGME information, see New England Journal of Medicine, "The Next GME Accreditation System – Rationale and Benefits," by Thomas J. Nasca, M.D., M.A.C.P. (ACGME CEO), et al., published on February 22, 2012.