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Stuart J. Salasche, MD

Dr. Stuart J. Salasche is currently a Clinical Professor at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center in Tucson, Arizona. He is also a Research Scientist at the University of Arizona Cancer Center doing clinical research in skin cancer. Prior to his move to Arizona in 1992, Dr. Salasche was a full-time Dermatology faculty member at Harvard University with a surgical practice at Massachusetts General Hospital. Before retiring from the military in 1989, he was full-time faculty in charge of Dermatologic Surgery at Brooke Army Medical Center. He has been a Program Director for surgical fellowships focusing on Mohs Surgery at Brooke and at Harvard and has trained many Dermatologic Surgery Fellows.

He is presently Assistant Editor on the Journal of the American Academy Dermatology serving as its Feature Editor for the "Surgical Pearls" for seven years. He is also Senior Editor for the journal Dermatologic Surgery, Associate Editor for the periodical Current Problems in Dermatology and was one of the three contributing editors to the Year Book of Dermatologic Surgery for five years. He is presently Associate Editor of a new textbook, Dermatology, to be published by Harcourt Publishers.

Dr. Salasche has published about 100 scientific publications and chapters, on skin surgery and oncology and has authored textbooks on Surgical Anatomy of the Skin and Flaps of the Central Face.

He is currently Vice-President of the Mohs College, is a past President of the Association of Academic Dermatologic Surgeons and a past member of the Board of Directors of the Mohs College, American Association of Dermatologic Surgeons and Association of Academic Dermatologic Surgeons. He is presently chairman of the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) Self-Assessment Committees as well as a member the Education Council. He is the outgoing Chairman of the AAD Nominating Committee and has been nominated to join the Board of Trustees of the Sulzberger Institute.

He has spoken at numerous international, national, regional and local scientific meetings and has been Visiting Professor at several dozen Dermatology programs. He has been Course Director for several AAD annual meetings over the last two decades including Surgical Pearls, Intermediate Surgery and Surgical Complications.