Atlas of Dermatology, Dermatopathology and Venereology

Bruce Smoller, MD is Chair, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Professor, Department of Dermatology. Dr. Smoller began his career in pathology as a resident in anatomic and clinical pathology at Harvard's Beth Israel Hospital. From there, he did a dermatopathology fellowship at Cornell Medical School/ New York Hospital under the tutelage of Dr. Scott McNutt. He remained on faculty at Cornell for several years before relocating to Stanford University in 1990 to assume the position as Director of Dermatopathology and rose through the ranks to become a Professor of Pathology and Dermatology. In 1997, he relocated to the University of Arkansas where he became Chair of the Department of Pathology, in addition to his role as the Director of Dermatopathology. He remained there until 2011 when he was appointed to the position of Executive Vice President of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology. He spent nearly three years in that position before accepting the position as Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Services and Professor of Dermatology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.  Dr. Smoller has published more than 235 original articles, 39 book chapters and 13 textbooks of dermatopathology. He has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cutaneous Pathology and as the President of the American Society of Dermatopathology. He also received the Nickel Award from the American Society of Dermatopathology in recognition of lifetime excellence in teaching.Nooshin Bagherani, MD has a private dermatology practice in Khoramshahr, Iran and is affiliated with Jundi Shapur University of Medical Sciences (Iran).  

Cutaneous Anatomy, Biology and Inherited Disorders and General Dermatologic Concepts.- 1. Introduction and Historical Bibliography.- 2. Comparative Dermatology.- 3. Anatomy and Organization of Human Skin.- 4. Functions of the skin.- 5. Molecular Biology.- 6. Histopathology of the Skin: General Principles.- 7. Inflammation.- 8. Clinical Immunology, Allergy and Photoimmunology.- 9. Cutaneous Reactions.- 10. Wound healing.- 11. Diagnosis of Skin Disease.- 12. Dermoscopy.- 13. Trichoscopy.- 14. Reflectance Confocal Microscopy in Dermatology.- 15. Prenatal Diagnosis of Genetic Skin Disease.- 16. Evidence-Based Dermatology.- 17. Skin and Skin Disease throughout Life.- 18. Epidemiology of Skin Disease.- 19. Racial Influences on Skin Disease.- 20. Education in Dermatology.- 21. Genetics in Dermatology.- 22. Genodermatoses.- 23. Genetic Blistering Diseases.- 24. Naevi and other Developmental Defects.- 25. Disorders of Keratinization.- 26. Metabolic and Nutritional Disorders.- 27. The Neonate.