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Skin and Allergy News CoverSkin & Allergy News Digital Network is the online destination and multimedia properties of Skin & Allergy News, the independent news publication for the dermatology community. Since 1970, Skin & Allergy News has been the leading source of news and commentary about clinical developments in dermatology as well as health care policy and regulations that affect the physician’s practice. Skin & Allergy News Digital Network is owned by the International Medical News Group division of Elsevier.

Our Mission
Skin & Allergy News Digital Network provides medical specialty news coverage tailored to the needs and interests of practicing dermatologists. Our staff of medical journalists strives to provide news that is fair, balanced and accurate. We adhere to policies of fact verification and disclosures of interest by sources quoted in our articles. We encourage a lively forum of perspectives and opinions from our online communities. We seek to inform, engage, educate, and entertain in an environment of transparency and full disclosure. To accomplish these goals, we rely on our editorial advisory board, our staff and our most important partners, our readers.

Editorial Advisory Board
Eliot Battle Jr., M.D., Howard University, Washington, D.C.
Leslie S. Baumann, M.D., Private practice, Miami Beach
David E. Cohen, M.D., New York University, N.Y.
Suzanne M. Connolly, M.D., Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Ariz.
Richard G. Glogau, M.D., University of California, San Francisco
Neil S. Goldberg, M.D., Private practice, Bronxville, N.Y.
Alice B. Gottlieb, M.D., Tufts University, Boston
Adelaide A. Hebert, M.D., University of Texas, Houston
Brooke Ashley-Ann Jackson, M.D., Northwestern University, Chicago
Ronald P. Rapini, M.D., University of Texas, Houston
Randall K. Roenigk, M.D., Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
Roberta D. Sengelmann, M.D., Private practice, Santa Barbara, Calif.
Robert A. Weiss, M.D., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

Click here for more information about our editorial advisory board members.

Staff
Alan J. Imhoff,  President, IMNG
Mary Jo M. Dales, Editor in Chief, IMNG
Denise Fulton, Executive Editor, IMNG
Kathy Scarbeck, Executive Editor, IMNG
Amy Pfeiffer, Managing Editor, Skin & Allergy News

Senior Editors
Christina Chase
Kathryn DeMott
Jeff Evans
Lori Buckner Farmer
Catherine Hackett
Keith Haglund
Gina L. Henderson
Sally Koch Kubetin
Teresa Lassman
Mark S. Lesney
Jane Salodof MacNeil
Renée Matthews
Catherine Cooper Nellist
Terry Rudd
Elizabeth Wood

Associate Editors
Felicia Rosenblatt Black
Therese Borden
Lorinda Bullock
Jay C. Cherniak
Steve Cimino
Richard Franki
Virginia Ingram-Wells
Jane Locastro
January W. Payne
Carol Nicotera-Ward
Leanne Sullivan

Reporters
Alicia Ault (Washington)
Betsy Bates (Los Angeles)
Sherry Boschert (San Francisco)
Doug Brunk (San Diego)
Frances Correa (Washington)
Bruce Jancin (Denver)
Diana Mahoney (New England)
Damian McNamara (Miami)
Elizabeth Mechcatie (Washington)
Naseem S. Miller (Washington)
Mary Ellen Schneider (New York)
Jennie Smith (Germany)
Heidi Splete (Washington)
Michele G. Sullivan (Mid-Atlantic)
Miriam E. Tucker (Washington)
Kerri Wachter (Washington)
Patrice Wendling (Chicago)
Mitchel L. Zoler (Philadelphia)

Contributing Writers
Christine Kilgore
Mary Ann Moon

Operations Team
Jim Chicca, Executive Director of Operations, IMNG
Yvonne Evans Struss, Director, Production/Manufacturing
Judi Sheffer, Production Manager
Maria Aquino, Anthony Draper, Rebecca Slebodnik, Production Specialists
Jon Li, Web Production Engineer
Jennifer Calhoun, Web Production Engineer
Doug Sullivan, Director of Information Technology
Lee J. Unger, Senior Systems Administrator
Peter Ayinde, Systems Administrator/Application Support
Louise A. Koenig, Creative Director
Elizabeth Byrne Lobdell, Design Supervisor 
Sarah L. G. Breeden, Yenling Liu, Senior Designers
Lisa M. Marfori, Designer
Catherine Harrell, Photo Editor
Susan D. Hite, Project Manager
Megan Evans, Assignments Manager
Daniela Silva, Accounts Payable Coordinator

Our Advertising and Business Services Teams
Mark E. Altier, Director of Sales
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E-mail: m.altier@elsevier.com

Sally Cioci, National Account Manager
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Andrea LaMonica, Classified Advertising Manager, Skin & Allergy News
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E-mail: a.lamonica@elsevier.com

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Dennis Quirk, Business Controller
Joan Friedman, Advertising Services Manager
Patricia H. Ramsey, Credit Supervisor

Barbara Cavallaro, Audience Development Manager
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Malika Wicks, Sr. Program Manager, Customized Programs
Jennifer Eckert, Manager, Marketing and Research
Lynne Kalish, Manager, Admin./Conventions
Linda Wilson, Editorial Assistant

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Our Business
Skin & Allergy News Digital Network is commercially supported by advertising and sponsorships. Online access to most of our content is free. Most premium content is available free to registered users. The sources of our content are clearly identified. Skin & Allergy News Digital Network strives to provide content that is accurate, objective, and fair. Our news is not influenced in any way by commercial sponsors or content contributors.Skin & Allergy News Digital Network invites strategic alliances and partnerships with others who share its high standards and seek to serve and enhance the dermatology community. We also welcome reciprocal linking arrangements with reputable dermatology information and research websites.For more information regarding content integration and partnership opportunities, please contact Alan Imhoff at a.imhoff@elsevier.com.

About Elsevier
Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services. Working in partnership with the global science and health communities, Elsevier’s 7000 employees in over 70 offices worldwide publish more than 2000 journals and 1900 new books per year, in addition to offering a suite of innovative electronic products, such as ScienceDirect, MD Consult, Scopus, bibliographic databases, and online reference works.

Elsevier is a global business headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and has offices worldwide. Elsevier is part of Reed Elsevier Group plc, a world-leading publisher and information provider. Operating in the science and medical, legal, education and business-to-business sectors, Reed Elsevier provides high-quality and flexible information solutions to users, with increasing emphasis on the Internet as a means of delivery. Reed Elsevier's ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK, and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).

Last updated October 3, 2011

 

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