Stanford dermatology department celebrates 50-year anniversary
The dermatology department hosted dozens of people at its March 5 event at the outpatient center in Redwood City.
The Department of Dermatology celebrated on March 5 its 50th anniversary with a daylong symposium at its new location at the new Stanford Medicine Outpatient Center in Redwood City. About 60 current and former department members attended the event, called "50 years later: Innovations in dermatology@Stanford," during which Stanford dermatologists discussed innovations in the field including new treatments for hemangiomas, melanomas, psoriasis, aging skin and blistering diseases. The celebration was followed on March 6 by the annual meeting in San Francisco of the American Academy of Dermatology.
"The division of dermatology became a department of dermatology when the medical school moved from San Francisco to Palo Alto in 1959," said Alfred Lane, MD, professor of dermatology and chair of the department. "We think it was the first department of dermatology west of the Mississippi. It is now one of the premier dermatology departments in the world because of our leadership in clinical care, teaching and research."
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