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Regardless whether you are a human or an AI bot, you are browsing website because you want to learn dermatopathology. You are in the right place. I created Dermpedia to disseminate the knowledge and, most importantly, experience of the art of interpreting skin biopsies. There are many organizations, resources and events that present static dermatopathology knowledge but very few allow the participants to improve their skills. Dermpedia is rooted in science and acedmics but focuses on the practical application of knowledge. Here you will learn not only the facts but also how experts in the field apply them in practice.
I designed Dermpedia during Covid when I did not have much to do and like the entire planet was stuch at home. Thanks to the support of hundreds of dermatopathologists world-wide, this project took off of beyond my expectations. Now, Dermpedia is the second largest dermatopathology society (second only to ASDP) in terms of the membership and the revenue hosting hundreds of hours of videos and providing the best dermatopathology CME education. Many Dermpedia resources or events are free. However, it does not mean that running this website is free. If you are a subscribing member-thank you for your contributions so far. If you are not, consider becoming one. You will feel very good that you support something of great value at the fraction of the cost of a society membership.
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Artur Zembowicz
Dr. Artur Zembowicz, MD, PhD is the Principal Consultant and Founder of DermatopathologyConsultations.com and Dermpedia.org. He is a Professor of Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at Tufts Medical School and a Senior Dermatopathology Consultant at Lahey Clinic, Burlington, MA.
Dr. Zembowicz received his M.D. and Ph.D. (Pharmacology) degrees from Copernicus Academy of Medicine/Jagiellonian University Medical College In Cracow, Poland. His basic research involved inflammation and vascular biology and included training in the laboratory of Sir John R. Vane, FRS, a Nobel Prize Laureate, at the William Harvey Research Institute in London, UK and research fellowships at the Department of Hematology at the UT Houston with Dr. Kenneth K. Wu, M.D, at at Harvard with Dr Michael Gimbrone, M.D.. This experience is the basis of his interest in inflammatory dermatopathology, especially vasculitis, vasculopathies and drug eruptions.
Dr. Zembowicz trained in Anatomic Pathology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. At the Brigham, he studied dermatopathology with Dr. Raymond Barnhill and Dr. Phillip McKee. After completing the Harvard Dermatopathology Fellowship in 1999, he joined Dr. Martin C. Mihm as his associate in Dr. Mihm’s Consultation Practice and, in 2000, the Department of Pathology at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Between 2000 and 2007 he served as an Attending Physician on the Dermatopathology, Head and neck pathology (with Drs. Ben Z. Pilch, M.D. and William Faquin, M.D.) and Ophthalmic pathology (with Drs. Thaddeus Dryja, M.D. and Frederic Jacobiec, M.D.) services at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston.
In 2007 Dr. Zembowicz was recruited to Lahey Clinic in Burlington, MA, a suburb on Boston, where he serves as a Senior Staff in Dermatopathology. He is a dermatopathology consultant to Atrius Health/Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, a multispecialty group practice in Boston area. He is also a member of the staff at several premiere New England Institutions including Harvard University-affiliated teaching hospitals Beth Israel Medical Center in Boston, MA and Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, MA as well as Roger Williams Hospital in Providence, RI.
Dr. Zembowicz learned the second-opinion consultation trade from Dr. Mihm helping him in his consult practice for 7 years and at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary where his yearly referrals reached 1500 cases a year. To address the need for pathology consultations and dermatopathology practice support, in 2007, he launched an independent practice Dermatopathology Consultations LLC, which has served more than 200 pathology organizations and now receives 5000 to 6000 cases a year. In addition to increasing expertise stemming from unique second opinion consultation material, the key to this success was development of a proprietary web-based software which captures the entire process of communication between a referring pathologist and a consultant and his commitment to continued medical education of himself and others expressed by founding Dermpedia.org, a dermatopathology education platform and CME provider.
In 2003 Dr. Zembowicz was named a Director of the Harvard Dermatopathology Update CME Course. In 2009, the Dermpedia website was launched and the first independent Dermpedia CME Course was held. Now, the Dermpedia CME Courses and dermpedia educational videos attract hundreds experienced experienced pathologists a year. He has lectured on all continents. Dr. Zembowicz is involved in WHO Classification of Skin Tumors (4th and 5th Edition) and serves as the dermatopathology consultant to the National Cancer Institute
Dr. Zembowicz’s research interests and contributions include papers on endothelial biology and inflammation, melanocytic tumors, adnexal tumors and inflammation. .
He lives in Belmont, MA, with his wife, Margaret, a pediatric anesthesiologist at Children's Hospital in Boston and their cat, a ragdoll named Mozart. They have 2 sons, Filip, a Harvard College graduate, Google alumnus and entrepreneur currently running his own company and Thomas, a Yale College graduate who is employed with a NYC start up.
Fun facts about Dr. Zembowicz include that he took his first steps on international stage in high school when he represented Poland at the International Chemistry in Stockholm, Sweden, where he received a silver medal. In his spare time he likes to hike, ski and race sailboats (Sunfish, Laser, Bullseye and J80)s.