Clinical & Experimental Dermatology

Biography

Martin C Mihm graduated “Summa cum laude” from Duquesne University in 1955. He obtained his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in 1961. He specialized in Internal Medicine, Dermatology, Pathology, and Dermatopathology. He started residency in dermatology at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in 1964 and after completing pathology residency joined the staff in 1973. In 1976, he founded one of the first five residency training programs in Dermatopathology in the United States. He became a Professor at Harvard Medical School in 1980. He joined the faculty of Albany Medical Center in 1993 to establish a dermatology and dermatopathology training program. In 1996, he returned to MGH to continue work in melanoma and to establish a vascular malformation clinic as Clinical Professor. On July 1, 2010, he assumed the position as Director of the Melanoma Program in Dermatology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Associate Director Dana-Farber and Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center. He holds now five adjunct professorships at different schools in the United States. He also was a co-founder of the Rare Tumor Institute of the WHO in Milan, Italy and acted as external coordinator for five years. He is currently co-director of the EORTC melanoma pathology program. He has written over four hundred articles and authored and co-authored twelve books. His research interests have principally been related to malignant melanoma, the study of delayed hypersensitivity reactions in animals and humans with Dr. Harold Dvorak, and more recently has begun to investigate the pathogenesis of vascular anomalies. He began his melanoma studies with Dr. Wallace Clark in 1965 and coauthored the first publication of the classification of malignant melanoma into subtypes.

Abstract

Abstract : Pathogenesis and comparison of atypical spitz nevi vs benign spitz, and childhood melanoma