Women's Dermatologic Society

WDS Career Corner: Applying for Pediatric Dermatology Fellowship   Thank you to Dr. Lloyd-McLennan and Dr. Deeti Pithadia for their contributions to this issue.  Allison Lloyd-McLennan, MD, is a pediatric dermatology fellow at Stanford University. She earned her medical degree from the University of California, Davis, and completed her dermatology residency at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, where she served as chief resident. She also is a board certified pediatrician, having trained at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland.   Dr. Deeti Pithadia is a board-certified pediatric dermatologist at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. She earned her medical degree at the Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine, followed by her dermatology residency at the University of California Los Angeles where she served as chief resident. She completed her pediatric dermatology fellowship at the University of California San Francisco. Dr. Deeti Pithadia 1. What is ...

  This October, we asked the members of the WDS Communications Committee to share one innovation, tool, technique, workflow, or practical insight they’ve learned or adopted this year that has improved how they support patients navigating skin-related cancer care or its dermatologic side effects. Whether it came from a WDS educational program, a colleague, or their own time in the clinic, each pearl is something you can take back to your own practice. Have one of your own? We’d love to hear it. "Swallow the big frog first" is something I had heard in lectures years ago and this year I really tried to make it a conscious daily task. The difficult patient? Write that note first, immediately, and everything else is just easy!" - Dr. Eden Lake   "For patients who need to self-treat areas at home, for example field therapy with topical 5-FU/calcipotriene cream for multiple actinic keratoses, I take a picture of the areas they need to treat on their own phones and then mar...

Authors: Amaris Geisler, MD, FAAD and Mary L. Stevenson, MD, FAAD   As doctors, we spend our careers counseling patients, offering education, and encouraging proactive health decisions. Ironically, many of us know little about our own reproductive health and family planning options – including fertility preservation and parental leave policies – even though medical training overlaps with our prime family-building years. 1 Should I freeze my eggs during residency? Will parental leave affect my training? How do I pursue parenthood while building a practice or an academic career? are questions that often go undiscussed. The Women’s Dermatologic Society is in a unique position to educate, mentor, advocate, and redefine what success in medicine looks like. Success is no longer measured solely by publications, promotions, leadership titles, or clinical productivity. It is also reflected in whether physicians feel empowered to build lives that align with their own values. In 2001, t...