Women's Dermatologic Society

Spotlight on Esteemed WDS Member, Dr. Amy Paller By Kate Oberlin, MD   Dr. Amy Paller is the Walter J. Hamlin Professor and Chair, Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Skin Disease Research Center at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Brown University and her medical degree from Stanford University.   Dr. Paller completed residency training in both Pediatrics and Dermatology at Northwestern University and her postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of North Carolina.   She is an author of more than 400 peer-reviewed publications and serves on the Council for the National Institute for Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.   Her NIH-funded laboratory focuses on the use of nanotechnology for topically applied gene regulation in treating skin disorders and on the role of glycolipids in the impaired wound healing and cutaneous innervation of diabetes. She r...

The Practice Advisory Committee has put together a list of pearls to keep in mind your first year out of residency. Pearls from Dr. Sarah Jackson  Many of us had no formal business training, yet we run successful businesses now. If you are starting your own practice, you must seek out the advice of experts, just as you would for a tough medical case. Throw yourself into learning about business, and utilize courses, mentors, and experts outside of our specialty. You will reap the rewards throughout your days of private practice! Pearls from Dr. Monica Li  Do not let patients pressure you into providing an intervention that you are not comfortable with. When in doubt, go back to the basics and be systematic. Always be nice to your support staff - they can be so helpful in ways known and unknown to you! Pearls from Dr. Elizabeth Long  Learn from failure. When patients express dissatisfaction from a treatment, a drug price, an interaction with staff, etc....

Dr. Nada Elbuluk is a board-certified dermatologist and assistant professor in the Department of Dermatology at USC Keck School of Medicine. She received her bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Princeton University where she also minored in Gender Studies and African American Studies. She went on to complete her medical degree from the University of Michigan where she graduated with a distinction in research. While there she received an NIH award that allowed her to also obtain a Master of Science in Clinical Research from the University of Michigan, School of Public Health. She completed her dermatology residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Afterwards, she served as a fellow and clinical instructor in the dermatology department at The University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Elbuluk’s clinical and research interests include general and cosmetic dermatology, with a special interest in ethnic skin and pigmentary disorders including vitiligo, melasma, and postinflammatory hyperpigmentatio...