Melanoma in Clinical Practice (PDF)

Debjani Sahni, MD is the G. Robert Baler Endowed Professor and Director of the multi-disciplinary Cutaneous Oncology Program at Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center. She completed her medical school training at the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals in London, UK. After acquiring her Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP), she completed dermatology residency at the St John's Institute of Dermatology in London. She subsequently undertook a cutaneous oncology fellowship at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston. Dr. Sahni specializes in the medical management of cutaneous oncology including cutaneous lymphomas, metastatic melanoma and high-risk non-melanoma skin cancers, and serves as the director of the Cutaneous Oncology Fellowship Program at Boston Medical Center. She also serves as the director of the unique and highly respected International Graduate Program in Dermatology (IGPD) at Boston University. First established in 1988, the IGPD offers international postgraduate doctors the opportunity to train in dermatology, utilizing state-of-the-art facilities and therapies available in the US. Her academic interests include teaching and mentoring for which she is the recipient of several teaching awards and an external examiner for dermatology board exams internationally. Dr. Sahni is a member of the American Academy of Dermatology and International Society of Cutaneous Lymphomas. Dr. Sahni's clinical research interests focus on the epidemiology and treatment of skin cancers and she is the author of multiple scientific papers.
Rhoda M. Alani, MD is the Herbert Mescon Endowed Professor and Chair of Dermatology at Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center. She received her MD degree with Honors and Distinction in Research from the University of Michigan and completed her internship in internal medicine at Yale-New Haven