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THE EAGLSTEIN CHAIR Annual Letter 2019 | 9

IN WOUND HEALING

Dr. Marjana Tomic-Canic, Ph.D. receiving the William H. Eaglstein Chair In Wound
Healing February 22, 2019 with Miller School Dean Henri Ford, Dr. Phillip Frost
Department of Dermatology Chair Robert Kirsner, University of Miami President
Julio Frenk and Dr. Phillip Frost Department of Dermatology Chair Emeritus
William Eaglstein

A great leader, mentor and friend, Dr. William H. care, including the development of the porcine
Eaglstein is widely-known and highly regarded as model for wound healing, the use of this model to
a pioneer in wound healing research, having made study the effect of steroids on healing, occlusion
seminal contributions to the field. Dr. Eaglstein is on healing, and the effect of anti-microbial drugs.
a medical graduate of the University of Missouri Among his many other contributions, he put forth
School of Medicine at Columbia and completed his the idea that skin grafts do not act solely as a
dermatology training at the University of Miami. He tissue replacement but as pharmacologic agents
is a past Professor and Chairman of Dermatology in healing, proposed the Growth Factor Trap
at the University of Pittsburgh and the University Hypothesis for venous leg ulcers, pioneered the
of Miami where he holds the title of Chair Emeritus study and use of cyanoacrlyates for healing and
since 2004. He was the second of only 4 chairs influenced his department’s faculty to develop
that the department, founded by Dr. Harvey the concept that biofilms play a role in chronic
Blank, has had in its illustrious 60+ year history. wound healing. Equally important to his scientific
Having trained under Dr. Blank, as a resident and contributions has been Dr. Eaglstein’s mentorship
faculty member, Dr. Eaglstein returned to Miami of members of his departments and of the field.
in 1986 to assume the chairmanship after serving Many of Dr. Eaglstein’s students, residents and
as Chairman of the Department of Dermatology mentees have gone on to success in wound healing
at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, for and many others have become some of the finest
6 years. He led the department at the University researchers, clinical dermatologists, dermatologic
of Miami for 17 years, through 2003. A founding surgeons, scientists, and cosmetic dermatologists
member of the Wound Healing Society, Dr. in the field.
Eaglstein has made pivotal contributions to wound