He has trained over 400 dermatopathologists, many of whom he inspired to pursue the discipline.
Left Elizabeth, NJ, as an adolescent, for Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.
Pre-Med at Princeton; Med at Columbia; Derm at Columbia, Penn, and Harvard; Dermpath at Harvard.
Considered psychiatry, but did not want to be a psychoanalyst. Fondness for things morphologic, especially art, led to dermatology. An affinity for the microscope coupled with the realization that dermatopathologists could resolve quandaries vexing to clinicians led to dermatopathology.