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Clinical Professor, Department of Pathology
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

• Clinical Professor of Pathology 3/2005 - Present
• Clinical Professor of Dermatology 8/2005 - Present

Licenses & Certifications

Medical Licenses (Current)
Virginia
Maryland

Board Certifications
Dermatopathology 1978
Dermatology 1977
Recertification in Dermatology 1999

Education

Postgraduate Medical Education
Residency: Vanderbilt University Hospital 1970 - 1971; Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Assistant Resident and Fellow 1973 -1976
Fellowships: Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Skin and Gastrointestinal Division, Earl D. Osborne Fellow 1976 - 1977

Medical Education
MD, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, MD 1970

Graduate Education
Master of Liberal Arts in History of Ideas, Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD 1994

Undergraduate Education
BA-Biology, Virginia Military Institute, Valedictorian
Lexington, VA 1966

Professional Activities

Midwest Center for Rural Health Advisory Council 2000 - 2001
Advisory Board – Skin Cancer Prevention Program Arizona Cancer Center 1998 - Present
Advisory Board- Westwood-Squibb Center for Dermatology Research 1998 -2002
Mary Weston Trust Fellow, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa 1989
Pan American Health Special Consultant to Humbolt Tropical Medicine Institute, Universidad Cayateno Heredia, Lima, Peru 1978
Volunteer, All Africa Leprosy Rehabilitation and Training Center Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 1971 - 1973

Professional Societies

American Academy of Dermatology 1977 - Present

• Task Force on Pathology 1981- 1988
• Continuing Medical Education Review Committee, Chairman 1988 -1991
• Task Force to Provide Educational Materials to Developing Countries 1990 -1996
• Committee on Regulatory Issues 1991-1996
• Committee on Interdisciplinary Education 1993 -1997
• CLIA Task Force 1994 - 1999
• Health Policy Council 1995 - 2000
• Guidelines of Care/Outcomes Committee, Chairman 1995 - 2001
• Board of Directors 2000 - 2004

American Association of Medical Colleges 1995 - 2004

• Group on Faculty Practice 1995 - 2001
• Council of Deans 2001 - 2004

American Dermatological Association 1987 - Present

• Education Committee 1990 - 1994
• Program Committee 1991 - 1996
• Program Committee Chairman 1995 - 1996
• Board of Directors 1997 - 2001
• President-Elect 2003 - 2004
• President 2004 - 2005

American Medical Association 1990 - 2005

American Society of Dermatopathology 1978 - Present

• Program Committee 1984 - 1987
• Program Committee Chairman 1986 - 1987
• Board of Directors 1989 - 1996
• President-elect 1989 - 1990
• President 1990 - 1991

Women’s Dermatologic Society 2000 - 2003

World Congress of Dermatology

• Program Committee 1989 - 1992
• Section Chair 1997 Meeting 1995 - 1997

Specialty Board Activities

American Board of Dermatology, Board of Directors 1999 - 2007
American Board of Pathology, Dermatopathology Test Committee 1992 - 1995, 2001 - Present

Editorial Boards

American Journal of Clinical Dermatology 2003 - Present
International Journal of Dermatology 2001- Present
Journal of Cutaneous Pathology

• Editor 1985 - 1989
• Editorial Board 1985 - 2003

Grant Reviewer

NCI Scientific Review Group Subcommittee G- Education 1999
National Cancer Institute, Program Project 1998
Mary Margaret Walther Program for Cancer Care Research 1996
National Institutes of Health, Ad Hoc Committee 1988

National Institutes of Health Committees

Chronic Graft-versus-host Disease, NIH Consensus Conference 2004
Workshop on Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer 1995 - 1996
Diagnosis and Treatment of Early Melanoma, NIH Consensus Conference 1992
Workshop Without Walls (Melanoma) 1989 -1991

Awards & Honors

Presidential Citation, American Academy of Dermatology 2004
First Jackson-Hope Medal (Valedictorian), Virginia Military Institute 1966

Recent Publications

Peer Reviewed Publications

Farmer ER: Why a skin biopsy? Arch Dermatol 2000;136:779-780.

Hahn HB, Melfi C, Chuang TY, Lewis CW, Gonin R, Hanna MP, Farmer ER: Use of the Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI) in a midwestern United States urban clinic: a comparison study. J Am Acad Dermatology 2000, 45:44-8.

Coleman WP, Glogau, RG, Klein JA, Moy RL, Narins RS, Farmer ER, et.al. Guidelines of care for liposuction. J Am Acad Dermatol 2001;45:438-47.

Sober AJ, Chuang TY, Duvic M, Farmer ER, Grichnik JM, Halpern AC, Holloway V, Hood AF, Johnson TM, Lowery BJ, and the Guidelines/Outcomes Committee. Guidelines of care for primary cutaneous melanoma. J Am Acad Dermatol 2001; 45(4):579-586.

Farmer ER: The fundamental issue of diagnosis. Arch Dermatol 2002;138:684-685.

Knight,J.M.; Kirincich,A.N.; Farmer,E.R.; Hood,A.F.: Awareness of the risks of tanning lamps does not influence behavior among college students. Arch Dermatol 2002;138:1311-1315.

Chuang TY, Brasher R, Wagner JD, Farmer ER: Principles of evidenced-based management using stage I-II melanoma as a model. Int J Dermatol 2002;41:721-728.

Jungers EA, Guenthner ST, Farmer ER, Perkins SM: A skin cancer education initiative at a professional baseball game and results of a skin cancer survey. Int J Dermatol 2003; 42:524-9.

Bozzo P, Saboda K, Einspahr JG, Ranger-Moore J, Farmer ER, Cockerell CJ, Elder DE, Bangert JL, Hart N, Kramer CB, Alberts DS: Reliability and validity of a histologic score as a marker for skin cancer chemoprevention. Analyt Quant Cytol Histol 2003;25:285-292.

Shulman HM, Kleiner D, Lee SJ, Morton T, Pavletic SZ, Farmer E, Moresi JM, Greenson J, Janin A, Martin PJ, McDonald G, Flowers MED, Turner M, Atkinson J, Lefkowitch J, Washington MK, Prieto VG, Kim S, Argenyi A, Diwan AH, Rashid A, Hiatt K, Hymes S, Vogelsang GB. Histopathologic diagnosis of chronic graft versus host disease. NIH consensus development project on criteria for clinical trials in chronic graft-versus-host disease: II. Pathology working group report. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2005; in press.

Books

Farmer, E. R. and Hood, A. F. (eds): Pathology of the Skin. 2nd edition. 2000. New York, McGraw-Hill.

Book Chapters

Farmer ER, Hood AF: The principles & practice of Dermatopathology, in Farmer ER, Hood AF (eds): Pathology of the Skin. 2nd edition. New York, McGraw-Hill 2000:3-8.

Hood AF, Farmer ER: Interface dermatitis, in Farmer ER, Hood AF (eds): Pathology of the Skin. 2nd edition. New York, McGraw-Hill 2000:189-219.

Peters MS, Farmer ER: Histiocytic & Langerhans cell reactions, in Farmer ER, Hood AF (eds): Pathology of the Skin. 2nd edition. New York, McGraw-Hill 2000:399-424.

Roscoe J, Farmer ER: Diseases caused by fungi, in Farmer ER, Hood AF (eds): Pathology of the Skin. 2nd edition. New York, McGraw-Hill 2000:611-633.

Briggaman RA, Farmer ER: Noninflammatory subepidermal diseases, in Farmer ER, Hood AF (eds): Pathology of the Skin. 2nd edition. New York, McGraw-Hill 2000:761-772.

Kao GF, Farmer ER: Benign tumors & carcinoma in situ of the epidermis, in Farmer ER, Hood AF (eds): Pathology of the Skin. 2nd edition. New York, McGraw-Hill 2000:931-967.

Farmer ER, Hood AF: Melanocytic tumors, in Farmer ER, Hood AF (eds): Pathology of the Skin. 2nd edition. New York, McGraw-Hill: 2000:1105-1155.

Farmer ER: Graft-versus-host disease, in Provost TT, Flynn JA (eds): Cutaneous Medicine: Cutaneous Manifestations of Systemic Disease. Hamilton, B.C. Decker, Inc. 2001:651-661.

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