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Clayton E. Wheeler, MD

Arch Dermatol. 2003;139:118.

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WHY: Because he has trained scores of dermatologists at the University of North Carolina, many of whom have become leaders in their fields, including 4 department chairs.

MED SCHOOL; DERM RESIDENCY: University of Wisconsin; University of Michigan.

MAJOR INFLUENCES: Arthur Curtis (chair at Michigan) and Edward Cawley (chair at Charlottesville, Va) were mentors. Rudy Baer and Clarence Livingood are his heroes.

LIFE-CHANGING EVENTS: As a boy growing up on a Wisconsin farm, he dreamed of becoming a teacher or physician (became both). As a medical student, he preferred bowling to attending boring dermatology lectures. As an internist on locum tenens in Michigan and later as Chief of Medicine in the Army (Colorado Springs), he treated patients with skin diseases, which led him to seek residency training in dermatology.

PASSIONS OUTSIDE DERMATOLOGY: "Family!" Wife (Brooks) was secretary to 3 medical school deans at the University of Virginia; 3 daughters (homemaker Susan, . . . [Full Text of this Article]