Dermato-Oncology Study Guide: Essential Text and Review
About this ebook
Dermato-Oncology Study Guide: Essential Text and Review serves a critical educational need for clinicians caring for patients with systemic malignancy by creating an easy-to-use resource that provides practical tools to recognize skin signs of internal malignancy. Furthermore it helps in anticipating and managing adverse reactions of therapeutics for systemic malignancy, and gives the reader the opportunity to weigh the risks of malignancy of pharmacologic agents for skin disease.
About the author
Previously on faculty at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Liu is currently the Robert F. Godwin Clinical Professor in the Departments of Dermatology and Pathology at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, where his specialties include dermatopathology, cutaneous lymphoma, and medical education. With a specific clinical and research interest in the field of cutaneous lymphomas, Dr. Liu serves as dermatology director of the University of Iowa Multidisciplinary Cutaneous Lymphoma Program. In addition he serves as faculty director of the dermatology medical student clerkship. He is also a former director of the McCowen Learning Community at the University of Iowa College of Medicine.
More broadly, Dr. Liu’s focus on the intersection of skin with systemic malignancy has been highlighted by his co-authorship of an often cited Journal of American Academy CME article on “Paraneoplastic Dermatoses”. Moreover, he has been directing a “Skin & Systemic Malignancy” forum at the annual American Academy of Dermatology for the past several years. Board-certified by both the American Board of Dermatology and the American Board of Dermatopathology, Dr. Liu is a member of the American Academy of Dermatology and the Iowa Dermatologic Society.
