Dermatology
The mission of the Boston University Department of Dermatology is to serve as a leader in teaching, research and patient care relevant to skin diseases. We are committed to education and to generating new knowledge about normal and diseased skin. We are committed to innovation in all of our endeavors. We strive to meet the highest standards of ethics and academic excellence. Ultimately, we hope that our work will advance the health of our community.
The Department of Dermatology at Boston University provides care to inpatients and outpatients at Boston Medical Center and the Jamaica Plain Veterans Administration Hospital. The Department occupies a 36,000 sq. ft (4000 m2) building on the Boston University Medical Center campus adjacent to the Medical School, School of Public Health, School of Dental Medicine and Boston Medical Center, the principal teaching hospital. Faculty and clinical associates offer expertise in practically all subspecialty areas within dermatology, including: skin oncology, dermatologic surgery, phototherapy, laser and cosmetic surgery, photopheresis, alopecia, skin ulcers, wound management, pediatric dermatology, geriatric dermatology, sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS, and tropical dermatology. Departmental researchers are leaders in fields such as skin aging, pigmentation, skin cancer, and malignant melanoma.
The Dermatopathology Section processes over 25,000 biopsy specimens every year. The Section makes use of state-of-the-art equipment, including an electron microscope and image analyzer. The Section also has an extensive set of teaching slides and a 12-headed teaching microscope with a video monitor.
The Peter Pochi Departmental Library and the Ferdinando Serri Educational Resource Center house texts and journals in dermatology and allied disciplines. Computers with extensive graphics and word processing capacity, as well as literature search programs, are dedicated to trainee use.
