Newswise — NEW YORK, December 5, 2011 – Seth Orlow, MD, PhD, professor and chair of the Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology at NYU Langone Medical Center recently announced the appointment of 5 new faculty members. The appointments represent a 30% increase in NYU’s Dermatology Faculty Group Practice and are part of a major expansion taking place at one of the oldest dermatology departments in the United States.
“We are excited to welcome these talented and energetic physicians to our medical center. Their areas of interest will complement the already existing strengths of our world-class department. We are also delighted that we can offer our patients an even broader variety of options for dermatologic treatment,” said Dr. Orlow.
The new members include the following: Chris Adigun, MD, joins the medical center following her dermatology residency training at UNC-Chapel Hill and at NYU School of Medicine. Dr. Adigun will practice at NYU Internal Medicine Associates - The Miller Practice on West 52nd Street as well as with NYU Dermatologic Associates and the Charles C. Harris Skin and Cancer Unit at Tisch Hospital, where she will oversee the Nail Disorders clinic. Dr. Adigum is a graduate of Cornell University and the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.
Beth McLellan, MD, completed a dermatology residency and chief residency at Henry Ford Health Systems in Detroit. Dr. McLellan’s expertise includes consultative dermatology and the skin effects of oncology therapeutics. She will divide her time between inpatient care at Tisch Hospital as well as outpatient dermatologic care at the new Joan H. Tisch Center for Women’s Health and will oversee residents in the Charles C. Harris Skin and Cancer Unit. Dr. McLellan is a graduate of Northwestern University and the Wayne State University School of Medicine.
Ahou Meydani, MD, completed her dermatology residency at UMDNJ- New Jersey Medical School where she was chief resident. Dr. Meydani will be dividing her time between faculty practice dermatology at NYU Columbus Medical in Queens and at the Charles C. Harris Skin and Cancer Unit at Tisch Hospital. Additionally, Dr. Meydani will work with faculty and residents at Bellevue Hospital Center. Dr. Meydani received her undergraduate degree from Brown University and was a medical student at Yale University School of Medicine.
Andrea L. Neimann, MD, has been appointed the new Director of Dermatopharmacology. She received her MSCE certification in Epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania and completed her residency at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Neimann will divide her time between conducting clinical trials at the Charles C. Harris Skin and Cancer Unit and caring for patients in the dermatology faculty practice at the Joan H. Tisch Center for Women’s Health on the Upper East Side and Dermatologic Associates at the medical center. Dr. Neimann graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Sarika Ramachandran, MD, joins NYU Langone following her residency at Stony Brook University Medical Center. Dr. Ramachandran will be dividing her time between faculty group practice activities at NYU Internal Medicine Associates - The Miller Practice on West 52nd Street and at NYU Great Neck, as well as being involved in patient care and resident education at the Charles C. Harris Skin and Cancer Unit at Tisch Hospital.
Additionally, John Carucci, MD, PhD, a nationally recognized skin cancer surgeon and physician-scientist joined the faculty this past February. He is a graduate of the Medical Scientist Training Program at SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn. He completed an internship in internal medicine at Yale University and his residency training in dermatology at NYU Langone Medical Center. On completion of his residency he did a fellowship in Mohs Micrographic and advanced Dermatologic Surgery at Yale.
Dr. Carucci’s presence builds upon the foundations of NYU’s Mohs surgery service, providing care to patients requiring routine and complex surgery and reconstruction for skin cancers and other skin growths. He will continue his longstanding involvement in research into the biology of skin cancer while overseeing education in dermatologic surgery and serving as director of NYU’s Procedural Dermatology Fellowship.
####About The Ronald O. Perelman Department of DermatologyThe Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology has a history dating back to the founding of the New York Skin & Cancer Hospital in 1872. The Department’s mission is fourfold: to deliver the highest quality of care to patients with skin disorders, by applying the latest advances in the diagnosis and treatment of skin diseases in an atmosphere of compassion and respect; to train medical students, dermatology residents, graduate dermatologists, and other physicians both to render the highest quality of patient care and to extend the clinical and basic-science boundaries of medicine; to advance the frontiers of knowledge concerning the mechanisms and treatment of skin diseases, applying cutting-edge science to skin-related research questions; and to study our patients' behaviors and identify risk factors that contribute to skin diseases, and to communicate this information to the public in lay journals, lectures in community settings, and dermatologic health-care screenings.
About NYU Langone Medical CenterNYU Langone Medical Center, a world-class patient-centered integrated academic medical center, is one of the nation’s premier centers for excellence in health care, biomedical research, and medical education. Located in the heart of Manhattan, NYU Langone is comprised of three hospitals—Tisch Hospital, a 705-bed acute-care tertiary facility, Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, the first non military rehabilitation hospital in the United States, with 174 beds and extensive outpatient rehabilitation programs, and the 190-bed Hospital for Joint Diseases, one of only five hospitals in the world dedicated to orthopaedics and rheumatology—plus the NYU School of Medicine, one of the nation’s preeminent academic institutions. For more information, visit http://www.med.nyu.edu/
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