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Leading Expert in Pediatric Skin Diseases and Melanoma Appointed Chair of Dermatology at NYU Medical Center

New York, NY, March 7, 2006 – Seth J. Orlow, M.D., Ph.D. has been appointed Chairman of Dermatology at New York University School of Medicine. NYU’s Dermatology Department is one of the oldest and largest leading dermatology departments in the United States. Dr. Orlow is only the fifth Chair in the Department’s long and august history.

A member of the NYU School of Medicine faculty since 1990, Dr. Orlow has been founding Director of the Pediatric & Adolescent Dermatology unit and, since 2004, Vice Chair for Research. He holds the first named chair in Pediatric Dermatology in the United States, having been appointed the Samuel Weinberg Professor of Pediatric Dermatology in 2002 at NYU, where he is also a Professor of Cell Biology and Pediatrics.

Internationally recognized for his clinical expertise in childhood, congenital and genetic disorders affecting the skin, hair and nails, Dr. Orlow has been a principal investigator on major grants from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) and the National Eye Institute (NEI) in the areas of melanoma therapy and the molecular and cellular biology of skin and eye pigmentation, and has also been an investigator in numerous clinical trials. The author of more than 130 basic research and clinical peer-reviewed publications as well as more than 40 book chapters and reviews, he currently serves on the editorial boards of Archives of Dermatology and Pediatric Dermatology.

Dr. Orlow is a Fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology and the American Academy of Pediatrics, and a member of the Society for Pediatric Dermatology and the Society for Investigative Dermatology. Board-certified in both Dermatology and Pediatric Dermatology, he was elected to the American Dermatological Association in 2000 and, in 2003, was honored with a lifetime achievement award from the American Skin Association.

Dr. Orlow received his AB magna cum laude from Harvard University, where he won the award for best thesis in the Biochemical Sciences. He received his medical degree and his doctorate (Molecular Pharmacology) as a Medical Scientist Training Program student at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Following an internship in pediatrics at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, he completed his residency and fellowship training in dermatology at Yale.

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