General Dermatology Clinic » Department of Dermatology » College of Medicine

(PGY-2, PYG-3, PGY-4)

General dermatology encompasses a wide spectrum of medical disorders affecting the skin, hair, nails, and mucous membranes. Adults of all ages, ethnicity and socioeconomic backgrounds are evaluated and treated.

Residents will learn to:

Elicit and organize the key components of past medical history, social history, and medications
Perform a thorough examination of skin, hair, nails, mucous membrane
Develop a sophisticated and thorough differential diagnosis
Recognize and diagnose common and uncommon dermatoses and neoplasias
Perform and interpret in-office diagnostic tests (potassium hydroxide preparations, Tzanck smears, Sarcoptes scrapings, dermoscopy, and hair pluck analysis)
Acquire understanding of topical medications and their indications
Acquire understanding of systemic therapies and their indications, contraindications, and safety profiles
Utilize phototherapy effectively and safely for patients who are appropriate candidates

Faculty

UF Health Dermatology at Springhill

Patricia A Missall MD, PhD, FAAD

Program Director & Clinical Associate Professor

Email: triciamissall@dermatology.med.ufl.edu

Mailing Address:: PO Box 100279
GAINESVILLE FL 32610

Physical Address:: 4037 NW 86TH TER
GAINESVILLE FL 32606

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Marjorie Montanez-Wiscovich M.D., Ph.D., FAAD

Clinical Associate Professor

Email: m.montanez@ufl.edu

Mailing Address:: PO Box 100279
GAINESVILLE FL 32610

Physical Address:: 4037 NW 86TH TER
GAINESVILLE FL 32606

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Kiran Motaparthi MD, FAAD

Program Director & Clinical Professor

Email: kmotaparthi@dermatology.med.ufl.edu

Mailing Address:: PO Box 100279
GAINESVILLE FL 32610

Subspecialties:

Dermatopathology

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UF Health Dermatology at Deerwood Park

Maria I Longo MD, PhD

Clinical Associate Professor

Department: MD-DERMATOLOGY

Phone: (352) 594-1500

Email: mlongo@dermatology.med.ufl.edu

Mailing Address:: 4037 NW 86TH TER FL 4
GAINESVILLE FL 32606

Dr. Isabel Longo is an Associate Professor of Dermatology at the University of Florida. Dr. Longo completed her Dermatology Residency at Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Maranon, Madrid, Spain and will be seeing patients at UF Health Dermatology Deerwood Park in Jacksonville, FL. Dr. Longo brings years of experience to the care of her patients.

Specialties:

Dermatology

Clinical Interests:

Melanoma
Skin Cancer

Publications:

2023
Risk of melanoma and nonmelanoma skin cancer with immunosuppressants, part I: Calcineurin inhibitors, thiopurines, IMDH inhibitors, mTOR inhibitors, and corticosteroids.
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
2023
Risk of melanoma and nonmelanoma skin cancer with immunosuppressants, part II: Methotrexate, alkylating agents, biologics, and small molecule inhibitors.
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
2021
Basal Cell Carcinoma Arising in Scars of Subcutaneous Port Sites.
Dermatologic surgery : official publication for American Society for Dermatologic Surgery [et al.]
2021
Reactive angioendotheliomatosis associated with antiphospholipid syndrome.
Dermatology online journal
2021
A photodistributed eruption in an immunosuppressed patient.
JAAD case reports
2020
Crown Vessels of Desmoplastic Trichilemmoma: Use of Dermoscopy with Pathological Correlation.
The Journal of clinical and aesthetic dermatology
2020
Discrepancy in the risk stratification and subsequent AUC scoring of primary versus recurrent superficial nonmelanoma skin cancer.
International journal of dermatology
2020
Hypopigmented Macules With Onychodystrophy: Answer.
The American Journal of dermatopathology
2020
Hypopigmented Macules With Onychodystrophy: Challenge.
The American Journal of dermatopathology
2020
Scar sarcoidosis following rituximab therapy
Dermatologic Therapy
2019
Who, why, where: an overview of determinants of sunbed use in Europe.
Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology : JEADV
2019
Use of Topical and Systemic Retinoids in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: Update and Review of the Current Literature.
Dermatologic surgery : official publication for American Society for Dermatologic Surgery [et al.]
2019
Sunbed use legislation in Europe: assessment of current status.
Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology : JEADV
2019
Successful treatment of recalcitrant molluscum contagiosum in a stem cell transplant patient with Candida immunotherapy.
Dermatologic therapy
2019
Prevalence and determinants of sunbed use in thirty European countries: data from the Euromelanoma skin cancer prevention campaign
Journal of European Academy of Dermatology and Venerology
2019
Initial skin cancer screening for solid organ transplant recipients in the United States: Delphi method development of expert consensus guidelines.
Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation
2019
Hypopyon pustules of Sneddon-Wilkenson disease.
International journal of dermatology
2019
Association of sunbed use with skin cancer risk factors in Europe: an investigation within the Euromelanoma skin cancer prevention campaign.
Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology : JEADV
2019
Isotretinoin and candida immunotherapy for recalcitrant warts in solid organ transplant recipients.
Dermatologic therapy
2018
Comment on: “Cancer in Parkinson's disease”
Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
2018
Quality of Life, Behaviour and Attitudes towards Actinic Keratosis in Spain: The PIQA Study.
Actas dermo-sifiliograficas
2017
Epidemiological and clinical features of patients diagnosed with cutaneous T-cell lymphomas in a Spanish tertiary care hospital.
Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology : JEADV
2016
Adaptation and validation of the Spanish version of the Actinic Keratosis Quality of Life questionnaire.
Actas dermo-sifiliograficas
2016
Comment on "Sirolimus use and risk of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) in solid organ transplant recipients (SOTRs)".
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
2013
Mesenchymal contribution to recruitment, infiltration, and positioning of leukocytes in human melanoma tissues.
The Journal of investigative dermatology
2013
TCR-γ expression in primary cutaneous T-cell lymphomas.
The American journal of surgical pathology
2012
Commentary on: cutaneous amyloidoses and systemic amyloidoses with cutaneous involvement (Eur J Dermatol 2010; 20: 152-60).
European journal of dermatology : EJD
2011
Photodynamic therapy with methyl-aminolevulinate for the treatment of double extramammary Paget's disease.
Dermatologic surgery : official publication for American Society for Dermatologic Surgery [et al.]
2011
Protection from UV-induced skin carcinogenesis by genetic inhibition of the ataxia telangiectasia and Rad3-related (ATR) kinase.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
2010
Acral cutaneous melanoma in a Spanish Caucasian population.
Melanoma research
2010
Vorinostat interferes with the signaling transduction pathway of T-cell receptor and synergizes with phosphoinositide-3 kinase inhibitors in cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.
Haematologica
2007
MC1R: three novel variants identified in a malignant melanoma association study in the Spanish population.
Carcinogenesis
2005
Acrokeratosis paraneoplastica: Bazex syndrome.
Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology : JEADV
2005
Clinical significance of CXCR3 and CXCR4 expression in primary melanoma.
International journal of cancer
2005
Metastatic Crohn's disease mimicking genital pyoderma gangrenosum in an HIV patient.
Acta dermato-venereologica
2005
Petechial exanthem in "bathing trunk" distribution caused by parvovirus B19 infection.
Pediatric dermatology
2005
Pigmented axillary nodule: carcinoma of an ectopic axillary breast.
Dermatologic surgery : official publication for American Society for Dermatologic Surgery [et al.]
2004
The neuronal protein Kidins220 localizes in a raft compartment at the leading edge of motile immature dendritic cells.
European journal of immunology
2004
Cutaneous necrosis induced by acenocoumarol.
Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology : JEADV
2003
Fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography imaging versus sentinel node biopsy in the primary staging of melanoma patients.
Dermatologic surgery : official publication for American Society for Dermatologic Surgery [et al.]
2003
Merkel cell carcinoma treatment with radiation: a good case despite no prospective studies.
Archives of dermatology
2003
Nodular vasculitis as a paraneoplastic presentation?
International journal of dermatology
2003
Rosacea-like demodicidosis in an immunocompromised child.
Pediatric dermatology
2002
Azoospermia in a patient receiving interferon alpha for a stage III melanoma.
Acta dermato-venereologica
2002
Detection of hepatitis C virus RNA and core protein in keratinocytes from patients with cutaneous lichen planus and chronic hepatitis C.
The Journal of investigative dermatology
2002
Disseminate and recurrent infundibulo-folliculitis.
Acta dermato-venereologica
2002
Hepatitis C virus replicates in sweat glands and is released into sweat in patients with chronic hepatitis C.
Journal of medical virology
2001
Expression of functional chemokine receptors CXCR3 and CXCR4 on human melanoma cells.
The Journal of biological chemistry
2001
Sweet's syndrome and bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia.
The American journal of medicine
2000
Off-center fold: dark-red plaques on the scalp of a newborn.
Archives of dermatology

Education:

2002
Residency – Dermatology
Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Maranon
1998
Medical Degree
Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Douglas N Robins MD

Clinical Associate Professor

Department: MD-DERMATOLOGY

Phone: (904) 383-1431

Email: drobins@dermatology.med.ufl.edu

Mailing Address:: 4100 SOUTHPOINT DR E STE 1
JACKSONVILLE FL 32216

Douglas Robins, MD, graduated from George Washington University Medical School. He completed his dermatology internship at New York University – Bellevue Medical Center. He then entered private practice in Washington, D.C. where he served as clinical assistant professor of dermatology at George Washington University Medical School. In 2000, Dr. Robins became a Jacksonville, Florida resident where he has practiced for nearly two decades. While in Jacksonville he served as president of the Jacksonville Dermatology and as Membership Chairman and Vice President of the Florida Society of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery. He has also served as principal investigator and co-investigator in more than 50 clinical dermatology trials. Dr. Robins clinical interests include actinic keratosis, acne vulgaris, rosacea, atopic dermatitis, psoriasis, seborrheic dermatitis and onychomycosis.

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