Residency Overview
The Residency Training Program at the Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology is designed to ensure that residents master the medical and surgical components of dermatology so that they can render the highest quality medical care to patients with skin diseases.
Residents rotate through ambulatory clinics and in-patient consultation services at three different adjacent Medical Centers: Tisch Hospital/NYU Langone Medical Center, Bellevue Hospital Medical Center and the New York Harbor Health Care System -Manhattan Veterans Administration Hospital. Each resident is on a team made up of residents from all 3 years of training. The team spends four months at each hospital before rotating to the next training site.
This rotational system affords residents exposure to a broad spectrum of dermatologic patients and disease. It also allows for continuity of care, as residents see their own follow-up patients during their rotation to each site, as well as in a weekly continuity clinic at one of the three teaching sites. Finally, it fosters a valuable camaraderie and nurtures the development of "team-players."
To complement the clinical education they receive at the three primary clinical sites, residents gain valuable training rotating through the practice offices of faculty members whose careers are focused on various facets of medical and procedural dermatology.
Charles C. Harris Skin and Cancer Unit at Tisch Hospital
Dr. Nicholas A. Soter with Residents
and a Patient
Dr. Nicholas A. Soter is the Medical Director at the Charles C. Harris Skin and Cancer Unit at Tisch Hospital.
The following is a list of services and corresponding full time and voluntary physicians:
Acne - Dr. Iris Kopeloff
Bullous Diseases - attended by Dr. Jean-Claude Bystryn
Complex Medical Dermatology - attended by Drs. Nicholas Soter and Jerome Shupack
Connective Tissue Diseases/Skin Lupus - attended by Dr. Andrew Franks Jr.
Contact Dermatitis - attended by Drs. David Cohen and Ronald Brancaccio
Cosmetic Dermatology - attended by Drs. Vicki Levine and Jessie Cheung
Cutaneous Lymphoma - attended by Dr. David Ramsay
Ethnic Skin - attended by Dr. Roopal Kundu
Genetic and Congenital Skin Disorders - attended by Dr. Julie Schaffer
Hair and Scalp - attended by Dr. Jerry Shapiro
Leg Ulcer - attended by Dr. Eugene Zappi
Nail - attended by Dr. Olympia Kovich
Pediatric & Adolescent Dermatology - attended by Drs. Philip Orbuch, and Julie Schaffer
Photomedicine - attended by Drs. Nicholas Soter and Jeffrey Marx
Pigmented Lesion - attended by Drs. David Polsky, Brent Wainwright and Jennifer Stein
Psoriasis - attended by Drs. Jerome Shupack and Bruce Strober
Surgery and procedures– attended by Drs. Vicki Levine, Jessie Cheung, Arielle Kauvar, Domenico Valente, Michael Albom, Lance Brown, Herbert Fine and Michael Cohen, Harold Mermelstein, Ralph Myrow.
Bellevue Hospital Medical Center
New Ambulatory Care Facility
at Bellevue Designed by I.M. Pei
Dr. Miguel Sanchez is the Director of Dermatology and Syphilology at Bellevue Hospital Medical Center. The following is a list of services and corresponding full time and voluntary physicians:
Complex Dermatology - Dr. Andrew Franks Jr.
Connective Tissue Disease - Drs. Stephen Prystowsky and Andrew Franks Jr.
Cosmetic - Drs. Paul Franks and Jessie Chung
Dermatologic Surgery - Drs. Anne Chapas, Linda Franks, Ariel Ostad and Louis Vogel
Hair and Nail - Dr. David Chu
Hansen’s Disease - Dr. William Levis
HIV Derm - Dr. Miguel Sanchez
Laser - Dr. Edwin Joe
Lymphoma - Dr. JoAnn Latkowski
Pediatric Dermatology - Dr. Julie Shaffer
Phototherapy - Dr. Miguel Sanchez
Prison - Dr. Miriam Pomeranz
Psychodermatology - Dr. Manuel Santos
Sarcoid - Dr. Stephen Prystowsky
Senior Surgery - Dr.Miguel Sanchez
Sexually Transmitted Diseases - Dr. Miguel Sanchez
Skin Cancer Risk - Dr. Miguel Sanchez
Skin of Color - Dr. Samayah Jamal
Vulvar - Dr. Miriam Pomeranz
Wound Healing - Dr. Miriam Pomeranz and Louis Iannuzzi, PT
Of importance, Bellevue Hospital, one of the oldest public hospitals in the United States and one of the largest public hospitals in the world, has played a historic role in the emergence of Dermatology as a specialty. From the time its doors first opened, the hospital was the first institution in the city to respond to the challenges of epidemics of syphilis, measles and other infectious diseases. The hospital squarely met the emerging AIDS epidemic by creating the first Dermatology clinic for the care of HIV patients in the country. More recently, Bellevue was selected as the main referral site by the New York City Department of health for evaluating patients with possible bioterrorism-induced infectious diseases.
New York Harbor Healthcare System - Manhattan Veterans Administration Hospital
Dr. Vicki Levine is the Chief of Mohs, Dermatologic, Laser, and Cosmetic Surgery at the New York Harbor Healthcare System-Manhattan Veterans Administration Hospital. The patients at the Veterans Administration Hospital are distinct from those at our other teaching hospitals. Clearly they are predominately male; however, the range of clinical pathology is very diverse. Our house staff here works closely with fulltime faculty who represent the gamut of medical subspecialties. The active ambulatory care system provides a superb venue for the residents to learn out-patient dermatology.
The following is a list of services and corresponding full time and voluntary physicians:
Complex Medical - Dr. Robert Auerbach
Cutaenous Lymphoma - Dr. Jo-Ann Latkowski
Dermatologic Surgery - Drs. Vicki Levine, Elizabeth Hale, Robin Ashinoff, Wendy Lou, Ingrid Olhoffer, Michael Whitlow, Julie Karen and Kenneth Mark
General Dermatology - Drs. Ira Pion, Steven Natow, Allison Zysman, Sara Tarsis, Cheryl Karcher, Alan Greenspan, Sharon Galvin, Roy Stern, Naheed Abassi, Richie Lin
Leg Ulcer Clinic - Dr. Jo-Ann Latkowski
Patch Testing - Dr. Lisa Gruson
Photodynamic Therapy - Dr. Brent Wainwright
Phototherapy UVA and UVB - Dr. Brent Wainwright
Pigmented Lesion/Dermatoscopy - Drs. Brent Wainwright, Jennifer Stein
Psoriasis - Dr. Robert Auerbach
