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EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor: June K. Robinson, MD, Chicago, Illinois
Associate Editor: Jeffrey P. Callen, MD, Louisville, Kentucky
Editorial Assistant: Teresa Wheatley, Chicago, Illinois

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The Cutting Edge: George J. Hruza, MD, St Louis, Missouri
Assistant Section Editors: Christie Ammirati, MD, Hershey, Pennsylvania,
Michael P. Heffernan, MD, Dayton, Ohio
Erik J. Stratman, MD, Marshfield, Wisconsin
Evidence-Based Dermatology: Michael Bigby, MD, Boston, Massachusetts
Assistant Section Editors: Olivier Chosidow, MD, PhD, Créteil, France
Rosamaria Corona, DSc, MD, Rome, Italy
Robert P. Dellavalle, MD, PhD, MSPH, Denver, Colorado
Urbà González, MD, PhD, Barcelona, Spain
Catalin M. Popescu, MD, PhD, Bucharest, Romania
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: Mary S. Stone, MD, Iowa City, Iowa
Assistant Section Editors: Soon Bahrami, MD, Louisville, Kentucky
Carrie Ann R. Cusack, MD, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Senait W. Dyson, MD, Irvine, California
Molly A. Hinshaw, MD, Madison, Wisconsin
Vincent Liu, MD, Iowa City, Iowa
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CME Editor: Andrew D. Samel, MD, Attleboro, Massachusetts
skINsight: James M. Grichnik, MD, PhD, Miami, Florida
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

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Murad Alam, MD, Chicago, Illinois
Ashish C. Bhatia, MD, Naperville, Illinois
Michael Bigby, MD, Boston, Massachusetts
Suephy C. Chen, MD, MS, Atlanta, Georgia
Robert P. Dellavalle, MD, PhD, MSPH, Denver, Colorado
Alan B. Fleischer Jr, MD, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
James M. Grichnik, MD, PhD, Miami, Florida
Thomas D. Horn, MD, Newton, Massachusetts
George J. Hruza, MD, St Louis, Missouri
Moise L. Levy, MD, Austin, Texas
Henry Wan-Peng Lim, MD, Detroit, Michigan
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
Mary S. Stone, MD, Iowa City, Iowa
Maria L. Chanco Turner, MD, Bethesda, Maryland

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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, Bogotá, 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, Münster, 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

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Henry G. Piffard, MD 1882-1885
Prince A. Morrow, MD 1882-1891
John A. Fordyce, MD 1891-1896
James C. Johnston, MD 1896-1902
George K. Swinburne, MD 1896-1902
Bolesaw Lapowski, MD 1896-1909
A. D. Mewborn, MD 1903-1908
George M. Mackee, MD 1909-1919
William Allen Pusey, MD 1920-1936
Howard Fox, MD 1937-1946
Paul O’Leary, MD 1947-1955
Herbert Rattner, MD 1955-1961
Harvey Blank, MD 1962-1963
Walter C. Lobitz, MD 1964-1968
Robert R. Kierland, MD 1969-1973
John H. Epstein, MD 1974-1978
Frederick A. Malkinson, MD 1979-1983
Kenneth A. Arndt, MD 1984-2003

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

Phil B. Fontanarosa, MD, MBA
Executive Deputy Editor, JAMA

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, Julia M. Kessler, Connie L. Manno
Freelance Copy Editors and Copyreaders: Catherine A. Alden, Jan Clavey, Lisa M. Cluver, Mary Coerver-Connolly, Robin Husayko, Laura King, Nicole C. Netter, Caroline Woods, Rachel Young
Editorial Systems Administrator: Paul Frank
Editorial Systems Manager: Monica Mungle
Associate Developer: J.D. Neff
Editorial Assistant: Wanda Hill

Scientific Publications & Multimedia Applications

Director, Administration: Marla A. Hall

Scientific Online Resources

Director: Margaret Winker, MD
Electronic Media, Director, Development and Design: Michelle Kurzynski
Developers/Designers: Christopher Hastings, Peter Kim, Craig McCaffrey
Web Administrative Assistant: Reuben Rios

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Bernard L. Hengesbaugh, Chief Operating Officer
Robert A. Musacchio, PhD, Senior Vice President, Publishing & Business Services

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