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EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor: June K. Robinson, MD, Chicago, Illinois

Associate Editor: Jeffrey P. Callen, MD, Louisville, Kentucky
Editorial Assistant: Mark D. Matthews, Chicago, Illinois

Editorial Office: Archives of Dermatology
132 E Delaware Pl, #5806, Chicago, IL 60611
Fax: (312) 943-7752
Telephone: e-mail for appointment
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SECTION EDITORS

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Archives a Century Ago: Mark Bernhardt, MD, Ft Lauderdale, Florida
The Cutting Edge: George J. Hruza, MD, St Louis, Missouri
Assistant Section Editors: Michael P. Heffernan, MD, Dayton, Ohio
Christie Ammirati, MD, Hershey, Pennsylvania
Evidence-Based Dermatology: Michael Bigby, MD, Boston, Massachusetts
Assistant Section Editors: Damiano Abeni, MD, MPH, Rome, Italy
Rosamaria Corona, DSc, MD, Rome, Italy
Urbà González, MD, PhD, Barcelona, Spain
Abrar A. Qureshi, MD, MPH, Boston, Massachusetts
Hywel Williams, MSc, PhD, FRCP, Nottingham, England
Feature Editor: Michael J. Sladden, MAE, MRCP(UK) , Launceston, Tasmania
Off-Center Fold: Michael E. Ming, MD, MSCE, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Assistant Section Editors: Carrie Ann R. Cusack, MD, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Senait W. Dyson, MD, Irvine, California
Jacqueline M. Junkins-Hopkins, MD, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Vincent Liu, MD, Iowa City, Iowa
Karla S. Rosenman, MD, New York, New York
On the Horizon: Gary S. Wood, MD, Madison, Wisconsin
Assistant Section Editors: Craig A. Elmets, MD, Birmingham, Alabama
Molly A. Hinshaw, MD, Madison, Wisconsin
Jay C. Klemme, MD, MPH, Wooster, Ohio
Mark R. Pittelkow, MD, Rochester, Minnesota
Maria L. Chanco Turner, MD, Bethesda, Maryland
Martin A. Weinstock, MD, PhD, Providence, Rhode Island
David T. Woodley, MD, Los Angeles, California
Web Editor: Ashish C. Bhatia, MD, Naperville, Illinois
CME Editor: Andrew D. Samel, MD, Attleboro, Massachusetts
skINsight: James M. Grichnik, MD, PhD, Durham, North Carolina
Assistant Section Editors: Ashfaq A. Marghoob, MD, New York, New York
Alon Scope, MD, New York, New York
This Month: Robin L. Travers, MD, Boston, Massachusetts

EDITORIAL BOARD

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Murad Alam, MD, Chicago, Illinois
Ashish C. Bhatia, MD, Naperville, Illinois
Michael Bigby, MD, Boston, Massachusetts
Mary-Margaret Chren, MD, San Francisco, California
Robert P. Dellavalle, MD, PhD, MSPH, Denver, Colorado
Alan B. Fleischer Jr, MD, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
James M. Grichnik, MD, PhD, Durham, North Carolina
Thomas D. Horn, MD, Little Rock, Arkansas
George J. Hruza, MD, St Louis, Missouri
Moise L. Levy, MD, Houston, Texas
Michael E. Ming, MD, MSCE, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Ronald L. Moy, MD, Los Angeles, California
Anthony E. Oro, MD, PhD, Stanford, California
Darrell S. Rigel, MD, New York, New York
Lawrence A. Schachner, MD, Miami, Florida
Kathryn Schwarzenberger, MD, Burlington, Vermont
Maria L. Chanco Turner, MD, Bethesda, Maryland
Gary S. Wood, MD, Madison, Wisconsin

SURGICAL ADVISORY BOARD

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Murad Alam, MD, Chairman, Chicago, Illinois
Daniel Berg, MD, Seattle, Washington
Jeffrey S. Dover, MD, FRCP, Boston, Massachusetts
Hayes B. Gladstone, MD, Palo Alto, California
Dee Anna Glaser, MD, St Louis, Missouri
Ken K. Lee, MD, Portland, Oregon

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

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Alvaro E. Acosta, MD, Bogota, Colombia
Jan Nico Bouwes Bavinck, MD, Leiden, the Netherlands
Reuven Bergman, MD, Haifa, Israel
Francisco G. Bravo, MD, Lima, Peru
Lorenzo Cerroni, MD, Graz, Austria
Yahya Dowlati, MD, PhD, Tehran, Iran
Reinhard Dummer, MD, Zurich, Switzerland
James Ferguson, MD, Dundee, Scotland
Miguel Ruben Guarda, MD, Santiago, Chile
John L. M. Hawk, MD, London, England
Jana Hercogova, MD, Prague, Czech Republic
Chung-Hong Hu, MD, FACP, Taipei, Taiwan
Abdul-Ghani M. Kibbi, FACP, MD, Beirut, Lebanon
Andreas D. Katsambas, MD, Athens, Greece
Steven Kossard, MD, Sydney, Australia
Margarita M. Larralde, MD, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sungnack Lee, MD, Suwon, Korea
Thomas A. Luger, MD, Munster, Germany
Gillian Murphy, MD, Dublin, Ireland
Oumeish Y. Oumeish, MD, Amman, Jordan
Fezal Ozdemir, MD, Izmir, Turkey
Jaime Piquero-Martin, MD, Caracas, Venezuela
Niwat Polnikorn, MD, FRCP(T), Bangkok, Thailand
Marcia Ramos-e-Silva, MD, PhD, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Jean E. Revuz, MD, Creteil, France
Luis Requena, MD, Madrid, Spain
Hiroshi Shimizu, MD, Sapporo, Japan
Mohsen Soliman, MD, Cairo, Egypt
T. Thirumoorthy, MD, Singapore
Antonella Tosti, MD, Bologna, Italy
Hans Christian Wulf, MD, Copenhagen, Denmark
Wen-Yuan Zhu, MD, Nanjing, China

PUBLICATION STAFF

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Offices: 515 N State St, Chicago, IL 60610

Catherine D. DeAngelis, MD, MPH
Editor in Chief
Scientific Publications & Multimedia Applications

Cheryl Iverson: Managing Editor

Editorial Processing Department

Department Director: Paula Glitman
Manuscript Editing Manager: Lauren B. Fischer
Senior Manuscript Editors: Dee Egger, John McFadden, Donald S. Smith
Manuscript Editor: Karen L. Boyd
Freelance Manuscript Editing Manager: Diane L. Cannon
Freelance Manuscript Editing Coordinators: Vickey Golden, Mary A. Kingzette, Connie L. Manno
Freelance Copy Editors and Copyreaders: Catherine A. Alden, Lisa M. Cluver, Mary Coerver-Connolly, Allison Esposito, GeorgeMary Gardner, Robin Husayko, Laura King, Nicole C. Netter, Caroline Woods
Editorial Systems Managers: Paul Frank, Monica Mungle
Systems Programmer/Internet Specialist: J.D. Neff
Editorial Assistant: Wanda Hill

Scientific Publications & Multimedia Applications

Executive Assistant to the Editor: Marla A. Hall

Scientific Online Resources

Director: Margaret Winker, MD
Electronic Media Department Director: Michelle Kurzynski
Associate Web Editors: Christopher Hastings, Peter Kim
Web Administrative Assistant: Reuben Rios

PERIODIC PUBLISHING & BUSINESS STAFF

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Senior VP & Publisher: Robert A. Musacchio, PhD

Advertising Sales & Marketing

Division Director: Jeffery J. Bonistalli
Manager: Kathy Russell
Staff: Mirna Monal, Jennifer Seminerio
Sales Representatives: Peter G. Messina, Patricia Quilty
Assistant Publisher, Classified Advertising/Circulation Promotion: Geoffrey Flick
Manager: Thalia Moss
Staff: Tem Harrier, Kim Jenkins, Allison Kruse, Michelle Sharpe
Director, Marketing Support Services: Mark Thornbury
Staff: Nancy Bell, Tricia Leonardis, Dennis Sammartino
Director, Reprints: Mark Kuhns
Staff: Susan Lovenberg

Journal Sales & Online Business

Division Director: Richard Newman
Director, Worldwide Sales: Vida Damijonaitis
Circulation Sales & Marketing:
Managers: Silvana Benzoni, Saskia Bolore, Jeremy Nielsen
Staff: Rebecca Haas, Christine Hearne
Director, Marketing and Product Development: Michael T. Clarke
Manager: Elizabeth Solaro
Staff: Millette Jackson-Bates, Sara Nicholson
Online Journal Publishing:
Manager: Julie Harrington

Publishing Operations

Division Director: Vanessa Hayden
Directors: Karen Adams-Taylor, Sue Sherrill
Managers: David Antos, Karen Branham, Suzanne J. Bukovsky, Debbie Camp, Susan Chiara, Diane Darnell, Susana Eloy de Vitale, Karl Elvin, Mary Ellen Johnston, Michael McGraw, Chris Meyer, Sean O’Donnell, Sean Ohlson, Phil O'Leary, Ryan Patella, Susan Price, Stacy Tucker
Advertising and Production Services: Karen Allbright, Bernadette Bauer, Rhonda Bailey Brown, Anna Goins, Terri Hanley, Euwanaha Joiner-Smith, Brian McCartney, Noemi Olmo, John Pantlind, Cindy Rendlen, Denise Steinhauser, Ellen Yoshihara
Circulation Processing:Julie Burton, Michael Deegan, Rosa Eng, Donovan Hanson, Felicia Kyles, Kathryn Osten
Composition and New Media: Gail Barrett, Regina Brownlee, Brenda Chandler-Grayer, Scott Curl, Amy Evers, Teri Hutchison, Mary Ann Kuranda, Joshua Lampinen, Patricia E. Panek, La'son Diggs Sledge, George Thomson
Graphics: Joe Amft, Maria Duda, Fred Furtner, Carolyn Hall, Maria Kowalkowski, JoAnne Weiskopf
Proofreading: Carol Joy Farrell, Daniel James, Judith A. Literskis, Teresa H. Omiotek, Barbara Wojtowicz, Agnes A. Zarkadas

AMA EXECUTIVES

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Michael D. Maves, MD, MBA, Executive Vice President, Chief Executive Officer
Bernard L. Hengesbaugh, Chief Operating Officer
Robert A. Musacchio, PhD, Senior Vice President, Publishing & Business Services

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