Misha Rosenbach - Inpatient Dermatology

Editors

Misha Rosenbach , Karolyn A. Wanat , Robert G. Micheletti and Laura A. Taylor

Inpatient Dermatology

We would like to thank our many mentors and colleagues, not just in dermatology, but across medicine. The emerging field of inpatient hospital-based dermatology is rapidly growing, often attracting the best and brightest dermatology residents and young physicians. Care of inpatients requires intelligence, curiosity, and interdisciplinary care and communication. We are all always learning from our patients, our students, and our colleagues who consult us. In particular, we have been fortunate to train at an institution where there is close collaboration between internal medicine and dermatology, and we have countless friends, mentors, and colleagues who have contributed to the care of our challenging inpatient dermatology patients, teaching us invaluable tips, tricks, and pearls along the way. We are delighted to share our approach and an up-to-date, evidence-based, and expert opinion-supplemented guide to inpatient dermatology.

In particular, we would like to thank Dr. William James, who is the pinnacle of dermatologic knowledge and a tireless teacher and generous mentor. He has served as a role model and inspiration for all of us, and we would not be where we are without him. Additionally, we are fortunate to have trained just as the hospitalist movement was starting in dermatology. Dr. Lindy Fox helped spark the field of inpatient dermatology, with inspiration from her mentor and legendary clinician, Dr. Marc Grossman, whose career as an inpatient dermatologist helped demonstrate that this career path was possible. Both editors Drs. Rosenbach and Micheletti rotated with Dr. Fox as residents and feel she is the trailblazer of our generation who has launched the entire field of inpatient dermatology; without her, we would not know what we know or do what we do, and we are forever grateful for her mentorship and example. We would like to thank the rest of the other founders of the inpatient dermatology society, Dr. Kanade Shinkai, Dr. Jonathan Cotliar, Dr. Lauren Hughey, and Dr. Daniela Kroshinsky, and the rest of the Society of Dermatology Hospitalists, a close-knit group of like-minded dermatologists who, like us, have chosen to focus their careers on the care and management of hospitalized patients and their dermatologic problems. We also must thank our collaborators in dermatopathology, in particular Drs. Rosalie Elenitsas, David Elder, George Xu, Mary Stone, Vincent Liu, and Brian Swick, without whom we would be unable to confirm many of these challenging diagnoses. Finally, we would like to dedicate this book to our patients, from whom and for whom we are always learning. Thank you for reading.

Dr. Rosenbach would like to dedicate this book to his family, who are endlessly loving and supportive and who never complain that he keeps an unpredictable schedule determined entirely by the number of consults in a given day. His wife, Anna, and children, Lara and Jake, are his loving family and his greatest joy. He thanks all of them for being so patient and understanding and is sorry for the many weekends spent working on this; he thinks they are the absolute best, and they make him thankful each and every day. Dr. Rosenbach would also like to thank his co-editors, who have put up with him for years in all sorts of ways and are the best colleagues one could ask for.

Dr. Wanat would like to dedicate this book to her always supportive, upbeat, and large Wanat family and her incredible husband, Steven, who is unwavering in his support, love, calming presence, and balance. In addition, she feels eternally grateful to her dermatology colleagues including the co-editors for being great to work with, authors of the book who worked so hard on their chapters, near and far mentors for always being there, her co-residents for being the absolute best, and all the residents and patients she has already had the chance to work withher passion for dermatology is fueled by their presence.

Dr. Micheletti would like to dedicate this book to his wife, Dorothy; son, Andrew; and daughter, Elisa, by whom he is inspired daily and of whom he is endlessly proud. He would also like to thank his mother and father, a dermatologist, for setting him on this path, as well as the countless medical school and residency mentors, students, residents, colleagues, and patients who have helped sustain him along the way. The practice of medicine is an incredible privilege, and the work of a dermatology hospitalist is never boring. May we all continue to learn and strive together daily for the benefit of our patients.

Dr. Taylor would like to dedicate this book to her incredible family and friends. She would like to specifically thank her father who instilled in her a love of learning, travel, and medicine and her mother who taught her to dream big and work hard. She would like to thank Dr. Leeman who is largely responsible for her enthusiasm for and dedication to academic research and to Dr. Louis DePalma for inspiring her to become a pathologist. She would like to thank Drs. Elder, Rosenbach, and Elenitsas for their invaluable support and mentorship and for providing models for the type of clinician she hopes to become. She feels that it has been a fantastic privilege to work on this book alongside such knowledgeable and inspiring colleagues.