The Eastern Virginia Medical School was founded as a private
community-based medical school in 1973 by local
physicians who saw a need for medical education in the
underserved coastal Virginia region, an area known to locals as
Hampton Roads. Pariser Dermatology Specialists, Ltd., a wellestablished
private practice group, initially provided dermatology
education through the Division of Dermatology. Later, a
beloved educator in the community, Margery A. Scott, MD, became
the first full-time EVMS academic dermatologist. In 2001,
Antoinette F. Hood, MD, came to EVMS as a professor in the Division
of Dermatology shortly after her husband, Evan Farmer,
MD, became the dean of the medical school. Within two years,
the Department of Dermatology was established. Accepting two
residents per year since 2002, the department has produced 12
board-certified dermatologists, including two who have pursued
additional fellowship training (and two more are in the pipeline).
Since its inception, the EVMS Department of Dermatology has
grown to include four full-time faculty members and is supported
by an abundance of enthusiastic community faculty, 10
of whom function in a unique role as hybrid academic-private
practice attendings. Faculty have expertise in vascular lesions,
skin of color, melanoma, alopecia, hyperhidrosis, psoriasis,
contact dermatitis and dermatopathology (Table 1).
