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Dear Friends:

On behalf of the Dr. Phillip Frost Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery, happy holidays and
best wishes for a year of love, joy, peace, health, safety, and great accomplishments.

2019 has been a truly transformative year for the Dr. Phillip Frost Department of Dermatology and
Cutaneous Surgery; from our name change to the wonderful achievements of our faculty, trainees and
alumni. In the midst of my 4th year as Chair, UM Dr. Phillip Frost Dermatology is striving to be the top
Dermatology Department in the US and is on target! This is truly a tribute to our superb faculty, talented
residents, fantastic fellows, wonderful administrative team (Monica Calcines, Peggy Betancourt, Radel
Dupeiron, Claudia Gutierrez, Clara Ibarra, Dave Lewis, Maria Palomino, Jacquelyn Salazar, Fabiola Rivera

Morales and Jessenia Pomares), our hard-working staff, our valued alumni and our dermatology community.
Your continuing support of the Department is critical for us to truly be the Department we all envision!

It’s a pleasure to share a few Departmental Highlights from 2019:

We linked our past with our future as Dr. Frost: Coral Gables Dermatology, respectively.
Phillip Frost, UM Dermatology alumni, former These new sites join our other practice
faculty member and industry icon and his wife sites including UM Frost: Medical Campus
Patricia Frost endowed our Department. This Dermatology, UM Frost: Lennar Dermatology,
endowment will allow us to accomplish great UM Frost: South Miami Dermatology, and UM
things, now and in perpetuity. A truly grateful Frost Dermatology at Sylvester Cancer Center-
Department, now bears Dr. Frost’s name. Deerfield.
Through the support of alumni and grateful
patients, we also endowed the William H.
Eaglstein, MD Chair in Wound Healing, a career
defining tribute to the Department’s second
Chair. Wound healing research superstar,
Dr. Marjana Tomic-Canic was named the first
Eaglstein Chair holder.

We celebrated a banner year for grant success
by moving up 5 spots in NIH ranking for
Dermatology Departments. As we make our
way towards the top, our research portfolio
is twice what it was 2 years ago and our
research in Wound Healing, Itch, and Hair are
internationally renowned.

Opening two new sites of clinical service as Graduation of our 2nd Master’s Degree
alumni Drs. Stephen Mandy and Rube Pardo Program in Skin Biology and Dermatologic
incorporate their practices into the Department Science class, with 14 students successfully
as UM Frost: South Beach Dermatology and UM completing the rigorous curriculum. Our