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Deon Wolpowitz, MD, PhD

Title: Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, BUSM.

Dermatopathology Fellowship: Dermatopathology Section, Department of Dermatology, BUSM

Board Certifications: Dermatology, Dermatopathology

Background: Deon Wolpowitz graduated from Columbia University in 2002, obtaining his M.D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons and his Ph.D. from the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior. He completed his preliminary year of internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2003, and then did his residency in dermatology at the Combined Boston University/Tufts program, finishing in 2006. He joined the faculty of Dermatology, BUSM upon completion of his fellowship program in 2008. Deon has dual roles within the Department of Dermatology, evaluating patients in the Faculty Practice of Boston Medical Center and signing out skin biopsies at the Skin Pathology Laboratory at Boston University School of Medicine.

Special interests: General Dermatopathology

Research Interests: "I have a clinical interest in pruritus and have active lines of laboratory-based research investigating the role of cutaneous nerves in skin diseases as well as in three dimensional imaging of nerves in skin biopsies from normal and disease states."

Select Publications:

• Wolpowitz, D and Gilchrest, BA (2006) Clarifying the Vitamin Controversy: The Health Benefits of Supplementation by Diet versus Sunshine. In: Krutmann, J , Gilchrest, BA (eds) Skin Aging. Springer-Verlag, ,pp 81-102.
• Wolpowitz, D and Gilchrest, B.A. The Vitamin D questions: How Much Do You Need and How Should You Get it? (2006) J Am Acad Dermatol 54, 301-17.
• Karakis I, McGeeney B, Demierre MF, Thiele JJ, Wolpowitz D, Bhawan J. (2007). Acquired hypopigmentation (leukoderma) as a presenting feature of metastatic amelanotic melanoma with brain involvement. Arch Neurol. 64, 1786-7.
• O. Abbas, N. Krejci and D. Wolpowitz Solitary hyperkeratotic papule on the right index finger. Solitary hyperkeratotic papule on the right index finger. Clinical and Experimental Dermatology, 2010(In press)

Select Awards/Honors:

• 2009-11: Amal K. Kurban Career Development Award, Department of Dermatology, BUSM
• 2002: Titus Munson Coan Award for Excellence in Basic Science Research, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons

Additional Information: Link to CV in detail