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Lawrence F. Eichenfield, MD, and I serve together on the board of Pediatric Annals' sister publication, Infectious Diseases in Children . Larry is a past President of the Society for Pediatric Dermatology, Editor-in-Chief of Pediatric Dermatology , President-elect of the American Acne and Rosacea Society, and also serves on the editorial boards of several journals and periodicals. He is the Director of Pediatric and Adolescent Dermatology at Rady Children's Hospital San Diego and University of California, San Diego where he is involved in, among other areas of research, determining the causes for the spike in pediatric psoriasis.
Stanford T. Shulman, MD
Dr. Shulman:
What drew you to becoming a pediatric dermatology specialist? Was there something in particular that intrigued you, or were you inspired by someone?
Dr. Eichenfield:
I did my pediatrics training at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and during that experience I was exposed to both a superb pediatric dermatologist and mentor Paul J. Honig, MD . In addition, I saw a field that had a breadth of cases of rare, difficult diseases, as well as common diseases that sometimes presented in atypical ways. I was fascinated by Honig, who had the ability and experience to walk into the room, and make a diagnosis that could just change the whole course and management for that one...