Marcus T. Block MD Memorial Visiting Professors

 

Marcus T. Block, MD was born in New York City on August 13, 1903, and moved with his family into then prosperous Newark in 1915, where he graduated from high school. He matriculated into Cornell Univeristy, receiving his BS degree in 1925. He then began medical school at the University of Kansas, transferring into the prestigious Rush Medical School of the University of Chicago, from which he received an MD in 1929.

 

Dr. Block found the time to regularly attend two clinics per week at the New Jersey Medical School, serving as an inspiration to our medical students for over a quarter century and to New Jersey’s first four dermatology residents, Michael Paul Bagley, Hector Wiltz, Philip J. Cohen, and Lynn K. Bickley. He served as President of the New Jersey Dermatological Society and remained active and enthusiastic until weeks before his death on August 2, 1986.

 

 

Marcus T. Block, M.D. Memorial Visiting Professors of Dermatology

 
1st (1987):

Lawrence Charles Parish MD, Professor of Dermatology, Jefferson Medical College; Editor, International Journal of Dermatology
2nd (1988):

Jacob Churg MD, Professor of Pathology, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine; describer of Churg-Strauss syndrome
3rd (1989):
 Michael Fisher MD, Professor and Head, Dermatology, Albert Einstein School of Medicine
4th (1990):

John T. McCarthy MD, Professor of Dermatology, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons; Editor, Cutis
5th (1991):
 D. Joseph Demis MD, PhD, Professor and former Head, Dermatology, Albany Medical College
6th (1992):
 Robert E. Tigelaar MD, Professor of Dermatology, Yale University School of Medicine
7th (1993):

Richard L. Edelson MD, Professor and Chair, Dermatology, Yale University School of Medicine
8th (1994):
 Bijan Safai MD, DSc, Professor and Chair, Dermatology, New York Medical College
9th (1995):

Stefania Jablonska MD, Professor and Chair, Dermatology, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
10th (1996):

Lois La Grenade MD, Professor and Head, Dermatology, University of the West Indies Faculty of Medicine, Jamaica 
11th (1997):

Irwin M. Braverman MD, Professor of Dermatology, Yale University School of Medicine
12th (1998):
 Mark Lebwohl MD, Professor and Chair, Dermatology, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
13th (1999):
 Martin C. Mihm, Jr. MD, Professor of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School
14th (2000):

Thomas T. Provost MD, Professor and Chair, Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
15th (2001):
 Jacek C. Szepietowski MD, Professor and Vice Chair, Medical University of Wroclaw (Breslau)
16th (2002):

William D. James MD, Professor and Vice Chair, Dermatology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
17th (2003):

Sidney N. Klaus MD, Professor of Dermatology, Dartmouth Medical School
18th (2004):
 Giuseppe Micali MD, Professor and Chair, Dermatology, University of Catania Faculty of Medicine, Italy
19th (2005):
 A. Razzaque Ahmed MD, PhD, Professor of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School
20th (2006):
 Murlidhar Rajagopalan MD, Professor of Dermatology, Chennai  Apollo Medical School, India
21st (2007):

Gerald G. Krueger MD, Professor and former Head, Dermatology, Benning Presidential Endowed Chair, University of Utah School of Medicine
22nd (2008):

Daniel M. Siegel MD, MS, Professor and Vice Chair, Dermatology, State University of New York at Brooklyn School of Medicine
23rd (2009):
 Arthur Mashberg DDS, Professor of Surgery, New Jersey Medical School
24th (2010):

Walter H.C. Burgdorf MD, Professor and former Head, Dermatology, University of New Medical School of Medicine, Salt Lake City; Professor of Dermatology, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munchen, Germany
25th (2011):

Diya F. Mutasim MD, Professor and Chairman, Dermatology,
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
26th (2012):

Robert C. Gallo MD, Founder and Director, Institute of Human Virology; Professor, Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine
27th (2013)

Ronald R. Rapini MD, Josey Professor and Chair, Mohs Clinic, Department of Dermatology, The University of Texa, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
28th (2014)

Thomas N. Helm MD, President, American Society of Dermatopathology, and Professor of Dermatology, SUNY Buffalo School of Medicine