Dermatoethics

Foundations of Dermatoethics.- Dermatology at the beginning and end of life.- Beyond the office visit: ethical obligations outside of the traditional dermatologist patient encounter.- Nontraditional interventions and drug dispensing.- Communication and the dermatologist-patient relationship.- Professional boundaries.- Dealing with difference.- Self-care and self -improvement.- Public health and advocacy.- Corporatization, consolidation, and conflict of interest in dermatology.- Honesty in advertising in dermatology.- Is there a moral obligation for dermatologists to accept health insurance?.- Distributive justice and drug dispensing and pricing.- Responsibilities of the trainee to the patient; disclosure, supervision, first-time procedures.- Faculty-resident-student and mentor-mentee relationships; healthy and unhealthy dynamics.- Ethics of residency and fellowship matches.- Ethical responsibilities of program directors.- Ethical responsibilities of department chairs.- Role of medical students in clinic.- Publication ethics.- Ethics of clinical trial design.- Respect for human subjects: Ethical obligations of investigators.- Clinical practice guidelines and conflicts of interest.- Role of industry in research funding; non-disclosure agreements.- Ethics for research consortiums.- Ethics of cutting edge trials for desperate patients.

Lionel G. Bercovitch, MD specializes and is board certified in pediatric dermatology. Dr. Bercovitch attended medical school at the University of Manitoba Rady College of Medicine in Winnipeg,Canada and completed his dermatology residency at Brown University Affiliated Hospitals. He is director of pediatric dermatology at Hasbro Children's Hospital and Brown Dermatology and Professor of Dermatology at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Pediatric Dermatology, 



Dr. Clifford Perlis, MD, MBioethics studied human biology and ethics in society as an undergraduate at Stanford University. He then completed medical school at the University of Pennsylvania where he also obtained a masters degree in bioethics. He was elected to the national medical honor society, Alpha Omega Alpha, while at the University of Pennsylvania. He completed Dermatology Residency and a Fellowship in Mohs Surgery and Cutaneous Oncology at Brown University. He is board certified by the American Board of Dermatology and a member of the American College of Mohs Surgeons. For his first nine years in Philadelphia, Dr. Perlis directed the Mohs surgery program at Fox Chase Cancer Center. He also served as chairman of the Fox Chase Cancer Center IRB. He maintains an appointment as an Adjunct Associate Clinical Professor at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University.

 Benjamin Stoff, MD, MAB is Associate Professor of Dermatology at Emory University School of Medicine.  He practices general dermatology and dermatopathology at Emory and teledermatology consultation through the Atlanta VA Medical Center.  In 2016, Dr. Stoff earned a Master of Arts in Bioethics from the Emory Center for Ethics, where he currently holds an appointment as Senior Faculty Fellow.  He is deputy chair of the Professionalism and Ethics committee of the American Academy of Dermatology and chair of the Ethics Committee of the