2013 Renowned dermatologist Gil Yosipovitch, MD, founder of the International Forum for the Study of Itch, is recruited to re-establish Temple as a full-service academic hub for treatment, research, and education in dermatology.
1993 At Fox Chase Cancer Center, Beatrice Mintz, PhD, develops a transgenic mouse model to study melanoma.
1931 Carroll Wright, MD (1895–1967), succeeds Strickler as head of Temple dermatology.
1918 Albert Strickler, MD (1882–1963) joins the Temple dermatology faculty, serving until 1931.
1910 Jay Schamberg, MD (1870–1934), the prolific physicianscientist, succeeds Fink. Schamberg is namesake of three skin diseases.
1957 James Graham, MD (1921–2012) joins the faculty. The Skin and Cancer Hospital of Philadelphia becomes Temple’s Dermatology Department. Graham later becomes President of the American Board of Dermatology.
1912 John Kolmer, MD (1886–1962) works with Schamberg and George Raiziss, MD (University of PA) to establish the institute that became the Research Institute of Cutaneous Medicine. Kolmer invented neoarsphenamine, a treatment for syphilis (1915) and one of the first blood tests for the disease (The Kolmer Test, 1922).
HISTORICAL PHOTOS: SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, TEMPLE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES; MINTZ: TOMMY LEONARDI. YOSIPOVITCH: DANIEL BURKE.
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