Professor and Chair, 1989-11/2000
Chief, Department of Dermatology, Buffalo General Hospital, Buffalo, NY, 1989-1998
Chief, Department of Dermatology, Children's Hospital of Buffalo, NY, 1991-1998
Chief, Department of Dermatology, Kaleida Health, Buffalo, NY, 1998-2000
(Note: Kaleida Health was formed by a merger of hospitals in Buffalo, including Buffalo General Hospital and Children's Hospital of Buffalo)
Chief of Dermatology, Veterans Administration Hospital, Buffalo, NY, 1995-1997 & 2000
Program Director, Residency Training Program in Dermatology, Graduate Medical and Dental Consortium of Buffalo, NY, 1989-2000
Key Responsibilities:
• Assume administrative responsibility for all dermatology activities at university-affiliated teaching hospitals.
• Provide academic leadership for all program activities in dermatology, including research, education, and teaching.
• Recruit, mentor, and lead full-time and clinical faculty.
• Manage departmental faculty clinical practice plan and represent department in university-wide faculty practice plan activities.
• Serve as Program Director for the Residency Training Program in Dermatology.
• Demonstrate national leadership in dermatology through participation in national and international organizations such as the American Academy of Dermatology.
Key Accomplishments:
• Transformed department through technology, modern clinical practice, and research.
• Achieved successful accreditation of residency training program, which had been on probation for over 10 years.
• Built highly respected clinical practice with international recognition for dermatologic care of female patients.
• Developed clinical research unit that performed multiple studies funded by the pharmaceutical industry.
• Recruited multiple full-time faculty for the academic department.
• Established faculty practice plan for members of the university department.
• Received national recognition for leadership in dermatology: elected to the American Dermatological Association, and the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Dermatology.
• Created new programs in career development for the Women's Dermatologic Society.
• Elected as President of the Women's Dermatologic Society.
• Demonstrated national leadership in medicine: elected President of the Harvard Medical School Alumni Association.
• Named in "Best Doctors in America".