Education:
1959-1961 Horace Mann School
Riverdale, N.Y.
David J. Elpern M.D.
Curriculum Vitae
Home Address: 12 Meadow
Street
Williamstown, MA 01267
(413) 458-2800
Date of
Birth: April
19, 1943
Place of
Birth: New
York City
Family:
Married, Three daughters
Education:
1959-1961 Horace Mann
School
Riverdale, N.Y.
1961-1965 A.B., Columbia
College
New York, New York
1965-1970 M.D., New
York University School of Medicine
New York, New York
Postgraduate Training:
1970-1971 Rotating
Intern
Vancouver General Hospital
Vancouver, British Columbia
1972-1973 Assistant
Resident
Department of Dermatology
New York University
Skin and Cancer Unit
New York, New York
1973-197
4 Resident
Central Maine Family Practice Residency
Augusta, Maine
1977-1979 Assistant
Resident, Fellow and Chief Resident
Department of Dermatology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
Medical Practical Experience:
1974-1977
Family Practice
Kauai Medical Group
Koloa, Hawaii
1979-1993
The Skin Department
Kauai Medical Group
Kauai, Hawaii
Hospital Staff Appointment:
1974-1993
G.N. Wilcox Hospital and Health Center
Lihue, Hawaii
Kauai Veteran's Memorial Hospital
Waimea, Hawaii
University Appointment:
1982-
Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Medicine (Dermatology)
University of Hawaii School of Medicine
1991-
Associate Clinical Professor
Department of Medicine (Dermatology)
University of Hawaii School of Medicine
Medical Licensure:
Hawaii
1974 2474
Massachusetts 1993
78145
Vermont
1993 8088
New
York
1994
Certification:
December
1979 American Board of Dermatology
Membership in Professional
Societies:
1974-1984 American Medical Association
1974-Present Hawaii Medical Association
1979-Present American Academy of Dermatology
1979-Present Hawaii Dermatological Society
1983-1993
Director, Continuing Medical Education
G.N. Wilcox Hospital
1993
Reviewer - The American Journal of Medicine
- The Annals of Internal Medicine
Reasearch Experience:
1967-1968 Leprosy,
Cultivation of M. Lepraw and development of animal model
Labratory, W. L. Barksdale, PhD
Department of Microbiology
New York University School of Medicine
New York, New York, and Caracas, Venezeula
1981-Present Demographic Index of Dermatology on
Kauai
Kauai, Hawaii
1983-Present Director
Kauai Skin Cancer Registry
Articles:
1. Sheridan JF, Donnenberg AD, Aurelian L, and Elpern DJ: Imunity to Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2., J. Immonol. 1982; 129, 326-331
2. Elpern DJ, Mitchell JC: Phytophotodermatitis from Fruits of Pelea anistata in Hawaiian Lei. Contact Dermatitis. 1984: 10;224-226
3. Elpern, DJ: Anatomy of a Dermatological Practice. Hawaii Medical Journal 1984: 43;260-274
4. Elpern, DJ: The Dermotology of Kauai. 1981-1982, International Journal of Dermatology 1985:24:647-652
5. Elpern, DJ: The Syndrome of Immediate Reactivities (Contact Urticaria Syndrome). A Historical Study from a Dermatological Practice. I. Age, Sex, Race, and Putitive Substances. Hawaii Medical Journal 1985:44:426,428,437, passim
6.Elpern, DJ: The Syndrome of Immediate Reactivities(Contact Urticaria Syndrome). Practice. II. The Atopic Diathesis and Drug Reactions. Hawaii Medical Journal 1985:44:466-468
7. Elpern, DJ: The Syndrome of Immediate Reactivities(Contact Urticaria Syndrome). III. General Discussion and Conclusions. Hawaii Medical Journal 1986:45:10-12
8. Elpern, DJ: Morrison WL, Hood AF: Papulovesicular Light Eruption: A Distinct Entity. Arch Dermaol 1985:121:1286-1288
9. Hood AF, Elpern DJ, Morrison WL: Histological findings in Papulovesicular Light Eruption. J Cutaneous Pathol 1986:13;13-21
10. Brinkworth S, Elpern DJ: the patterns of Herpesvirus in a multiracial population: Kauai Hawaii, 1981-198 Hawaii Medical Journal 1986:45;37-39
11. Leong GKP, Stone JL, Reizner GT, Farmer ER, Burnett TL, Scotto J, Elpern DJ: Nonmelanoma skin cancer in Japanese residents of Kauai, Hawaii. Am Acad Dermatol 1987:17;233-238
12. Walcyk P, Elpern DJ: Brachiordial Pruritus: A Tropical Dermopathy Br J Dermatol 1986:115;177-180
13. Shelley WB, Elpern DJ, Shelley, ED: Naproxen photosensitization demonstrated by challenge. CUTIS 1986:38;169-170
14. Stone JL, Elpern DJ, Reizner GT, et. al.: Nonmelanoma skin cancer in Kauai Hawaii. Hawaii Medical Journal 1986:45;281,86
15. Elpern DJ, Computer -assisted medical literature searching. Dermatologic Clinics 1986:4:579-587
16. Funaki B, Elpern DJ: Scabies Epidemiology, Kauai, Hawaii, 1981-1985. Int J. Dermatol 1987:26:590-592
17. Elpern DJ: Cocain Abuse and Delusions of Parasitosis. CUTIS 1988:42;273-274
18. Funaki B, Elpern DJ: Spectrum of Skin disease in Tourists to Kauai, Hawaii, 1981-87. CUTIS 1988:42:313-5
19. Stone, JL, Elpern DJ: Sunburn. In Current Therapy in Dermatology-2. Toronto: B.C. Decker, Inc., 1988
20. Elpern, DJ Book Review - When Doctors Get Sick. Hawaii Medical Journal 1988:47:288
21. Couch RD, Brinkworth S, Elpern DJ: Herpes Simplex Culture in a Small Hospital Laboratory. Hawaii Medical Journal 1988::47:413-5
22. Elpern DJ, Keola and the Kahuna: JAMA 1989:261;1333
23. Elpern, DJ The Wounded Bull and the Skin Man. The Pharos 1991:54;17-18
24. Elpern, DJ The Smart Machine - A Powerful Technology. Gratefully Yours U.S. Dept of H.H. S. , Sept/Oct 1990
25. Charles, J, Elpern, DJ Sarcoidosis in Hawaii, Hawaii Medical Journal:50; 204-210, 1991
26. Elpern, DJ Get to know your patients and you will find out what ails them American Medical News, January 20, 1992, Page 39
27. Charles, J, Elpern DJ Acrolentiginous Melanoma, Kauai, Hawaii, Hawaii Medical Journal 1992:51:235-39
28. Geroso A, Elpern, DJ, Observations on Mango Dermatitis from Hawaii. Contaact Dermatitis 1992:26:46-47
29. Reizner, GT Chuang T, Elpern, DJ Stone, JL, Farmer,
ER, Basal Cell Carcinoma in Kauai, Hawaii: Highest Documented
Incidence in the U.S.A. J Am Acad Dermat 1993:29;184-89
30. Elpern, DJ, Guest Editor, Straub Clinic
Proceedings, Volume 57, Number 1, August 1992
31. Elpern, DJ,, Working Together, American Medical News, May 25, 1992, Page 51
32. Elpern, DJ Book Review, Power and Dependence, Charles Medawar, Social Audit Press, The Pharos 1993-55:40
33. Elpern, DJ,, Health Matters: Social, Economic & Philosophical Aspects of Health Care. Hawaii Medical Journal 51, 212-213, 1992
34. Welsh, Tom, Elpern, DJ, 47 Years After Hiroshimaa An Office Visit. Second Opinion 1993:19:81-83
35. Elpern, DJ, Random Hurrican Thoughts. Hawaii Medical Journal 51:264-5, 1992
36. Chuang T, Reizner GT, Elpern, DJ, Stone JL, Farmer ER. Keratoacanthoma in Kauai, Hawaii. Arch Dermatology 1993:129:317-19
37. Elpern DJ. On Learning the Art of Medicine. J Cont. Education Health Profess 1993:13;196-199
38. Chaung TY, Reizner GT, Elpern DJ. Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Skin In Kauai, Hawaii (submitted)
39. Elpern DJ, Dedication of Robert J. Emrick Library on Kauai. Hawaii Medical Journal 1993;52:1196-199
40. Nekomoto T, Elpern, DJ, Junk! Arch Dermatology 1995:131:530-532
41. Chuang TY, Reizner GT, Elpern, DJ. Non-melanoma Skin Cancer in Filipinos. 1993; 32:717-18 Int. J. Dermatology 1993;332:717-18
42. Reizner GT Chuang TY, Elpern, DJ. Basal cell carcinoma and keratoacanthoma in Hawaii. JAAD 1993: 29:780-2
43. Chuang TY, Reizner GT, Elpern, DJ, Farmer, ER.Non-melanoma skin cancer and keratoacanthoma in Filipinos: an incidence report from Kauai, Hawaii. Int J Dermatol. 1993 Oct; 32(10): 717-718.
44. Reizner GT, Chuang TY, Elpern, DJ. Basal cell carcinoma and keratoacanthoma in Hawaiians: an incidence report. J Am Acad Dermatol. 1993 Nov; 29(5 Pt 1): 780-782. No abstract available.
45. Reizner GT, Chuang TY, Elpern, DJ, Farmer, ER. Bowen's disease (squamous cell carcinoma in situ) in Kauai, Hawaii. A population-based incidence report. J Am Acad Dermatol. 1994 Oct; 31(4): 596-600.
46. Nekomoto T, Elpern DJ. Junk! Arch Dermatol. 1995 May; 131(5): 530-532.
47. Chuang TY, Reizner GT, Elpern, DJ, Farmer, ER.. Squamous cell carcinoma in Kauai, Hawaii. Int J Dermatol. 1995 Jun; 34(6): 393-397.
48. Chuang TY, Reizner GT, Elpern, DJ, Farmer, ER.. Nonmelanoma skin cancer in Japanese ethnic Hawaiians in Kauai, Hawaii: an incidence report. J Am Acad Dermatol. 1995 Sep; 33(3): 422-426.
49. Reizner GT, Chuang TY, Elpern, DJ, Farmer, ER. Keratoacanthoma in Japanese Hawaiians in Kauai, Hawaii. Int J Dermatol. 1995 Dec; 34(12): 851-853.
50. Netzer RC, Elpern DJ A radial expanding plaque on the chest. Arch Dermatol. 1996 Mar; 132(3): 342-343.
51. Fowler KP, Elpern DJ. Perceptions of a patients' bill of rights: a comparison of Massachusetts and South Carolina. J South Carolina Med Assoc. 1997 Jan; 93(1): 21-25.
52. Elpern DJ. Beyond Alternative and Allopathic Medicine,
Archives of Dermatology 1998 Nov;134 (11):
1473-1476.
53. Chuang TY, Reizner GT, Charles J, Elpern DJ, Farmer ER, Melanoma in Kauai, Hawaii, 1981-1990: the significance of in situ melanoma and the incidence trend. Int J Dermatol. 1999 Feb;38(2):101-7.
54. Elpern D, The River Clinic, JAAD 1999 40:758-9.
55. Elpern DJ. In MemoriamStuart Katz (1959-1999). J Am Acad Dermatol. 1999 41(4):652-654.
56. Fowler KD, Elpern DJ, "Tortured tube" sign. West J Med. 2001 174 (6):383-4
57. Huynh PM, Elpern DJ. Related Articles, Links Cutaneous melanoma: learning to see. West J Med. 2001 Oct; 175(4): 274-5
58. Elpern DJ. The Art and the Calling. Arch Dermatol. 2002 Jan; 138(1): 107-8
59. Elpern DJ. The care of patients. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2002 Aug; 47(2): 317-8
60. Laochamroonvorapongse D, Johnson E, Foong HB, Elpern DJ. A brave New World: Virtual Grand Rounds in Dermatology. Semin Cutan Med Surg. 2002 Sep; 21(3): 232-6.
61. Nagasako EM, Johnson RW, Griffin DR, Elpern DJ, Dworkin RH. Geographic and racial aspects of herpes zoster. J Med Virol. 2003; 70 Suppl 1: S20-3.
62. Moore MM, Elpern DJ, Carter DJ. Severe, generalized nummular eczema
secondary to interferon alfa-2b plus ribavirin combination therapy in a patient
with chronic hepatitis C virus infection. Arch Dermatol. 2004;140:215-7.
ABSTRACTS:
1. Elpern, D, Barksdale L: Evolution of Disease in Mice inoculated with Bacilli from Lepromatous Leprosy. Fed. Proc.. 1968: 27 No 2
2. Hood AF, Elpern, DJ Morison WL: Histopathology of Papulovesicular Polymorphous Light Eruption. Arch Derm. 1984: 120;1611
LETTERS:
1. Elpern D: Patients' attitudes to medical students
in general practice. BMJ 1974:2:330-331
2. Elpern, DJ and Farmer ER: Papillary Eccrine Adenoma. Arch Dermatology 1978:114:1241
3. Elpern, DJ: Infantile Acropustulosis and Antecedent Scabies. Journal of American Academy of Derm. 1984:11;894-895
4. Elpern, DJ: Atypical pyoderma as a side-effect of isotretinoin. J. American Academy of Derm 1985:13:1045-1046
5. Funaki, B. Elpern DJ: Age Distribution of Herpes Zoster . J A, Acad Dermatology 1986:16:883-3
6.Burnett TS, Elpern, DJ: Need for specialist follow-up of patients with basal cell carcinoma. Br J. Dermatology 1988:119; 1130-131
Teaching Experience & Presentations
American Academy of Dermatology
December 1978
Gross and Microscopic Symposium
Multiple Eccrine Spiradenomata
Director, Clinical Section
Hawaii Dermatology Seminars
Post-Seminar Meeting
February, 1983
American Academy of Dermatology
Luncheon Discussion Group
December 5, 1983
Anatomy of a Dermatology Practice
Chicago, Illinois
Hawaii Dermatology Seminars
Lecture, Contact Urticaria Syndrome
Skin Cancer in Hawaii
February 11, 1985
Lecture for the Public
G.N. Wilcox Hospital
Skin Cancer in Hawaii
February 11, 1985
Associate Director
The Basics of Searching MEDLINE
November 7 and 8, 1984
Co-sponsored by the National Library of Medicine
and the Kauai County Medical Society
Hawii Medical Association
Annual Scientific Meeting
November 9, 1984
The Kauai Skin Cancer Study
American Academy of Dermatology
December 5, 1984
Sulzberger Clinical Research Symposium
Papulovesicular Light Eruption: A Distinct Entity
American Academy of Dermatology
December 6, 1984
Luncheon Discussion Seminar
Clinical Research in Private Practice
University of Hawaii Research Seminar
June 6, 1985
Clinical Research in Dermatology
American Academy of Dermatology
Summer Session 1985
Reizner GT and Elpern DJ
Incidence of Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer, Kauai,
Hawaii
American Academy of Dermatology
December 8, 1985
Course Director
The Basics of Searching MEDLINE:
A Course for Physicians
Hawii Dermatology Seminars
February 15, 1986
Presentation
The Dermatologist drives CAMELS
American College of Physicians
Regional Meeting, Honolulu, HI
April 18, 1986
Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer in Japanese
Residents of Kauai, Hawaii, 1983-1985
Association of Military Dermatologists
Annual Meetings - April 1987
Honolulu, Hawaii
Polymorphous Light Eruption
Hawii Dermatology Seminars
February 1988
Emporiatric Dermatology
Pacific Dermatologic Association
"CAMELS IN THE HOME AND OFFICE"
September 29, 1988
San Diego, CA
Pacific Dermatologic Association
Computers in Your Office - A Workshop
( with Rebecca Stratman - of Univ. Cal Davis)
September 29, 30, and October 1, 1988
Family Practice: Caring and Curing
"Skin Disease in Tourists to Kauai"
January 20, 1990
Kauai, Hawaii
Practical Aspects of Pain Management
"The Pain Experience - A personal View"
January 28, 1990
Kauai, Hawaii
Hawii Dermatology Seminars
"Photosensitivity in Tourists of Hawii"
February 8, 1990
Kohala, Hawaii
Kauai Community College
"The Ethics of the Health Care Industry"
For a course on business ethics
March 24, 1990
Puhi, Hawii
9th Regional Conference of Dermatology"
"Computers in Dermatology"
June 20, 1990
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Rural Health: Looking at Kauai
"Working Together"
April 10, 1991
Lihue, Hawaii
Grand Rounds - Wilcox Memorial Hospital
June 9, 1992
"Vignettes from a Practice"
Society For Professional Well-Being
Fifth National Conference
DeMaria Memorial Lecture
"The Art of Medicine"
October 23, 1992
San Francisco, California
Howard Fox Guest Lecture & Visiting Professor
New York University School of Medicine
June 6 -7, 1993
American Academy of Dermatology
" The Call of Stories" - A Focus Session
December 4, 1993
Medicine and Literature - A Colloquim
Williams College, Winter Study Course
January 3-27, 1994
Guest Speaker
Oregon Dermatological Society
February 9, 1994
Guest Speaker
Yale Program for Medicine and the Humanities
Autonomous Learning
November 15, 1994
Guest Speaker
Yale Program for Medicine and the Humanities
The Art and the Calling of Being a Doctor
February 6, 1997
Grand Rounds
North Adams Regional Hospital
Essentials for Diagnosis of Skin Disorders
October 22, 1997
American Academy of Dermatology
Medicine and Service
March 3, 1998
Orlando, Florida
Jared Haft Goldstein
Memorial Lecture
Autumn Evenings
Duke University
October 31, 1998
Association of Professors of Dermatology
Lecture - Beyond Allopathic and Complementary Medicine
Chicago, Illinois
October 2, 1999
Guest Lecturer
New York University Department of Dermatology
Grand Rounds Autumn Evenings
October 25, 2002
Guest Lecturer Keynote Lecture
Course on Physician and Patient
New York University First Year Class
November 5, 2003
Research Grants:
1984-1985
American Cancer Society
Institutional Research Grant
Kauai Skin Cancer Registry
VA Medical Merit
Incidence Study of Skin Cancer in Hawii
1991-1993
Chairman- and Directorships:
Chairman
Department of Continuing Education
G.N. Wilcox Hospital
1983-1993
Chairman
Task Force on DERM/LIT -1985
American Academy of Dermatology
Director
A course in Mmedical Ethics for Physicians
G.N. Wilcox Hospital, Autumn 1985
Director
The Basics of Teaching MEDLINE
Acourse in Computer Assisted Medical
Literature Searching
September 6-7, 1986, Lihue, Hawii
Chairman
Kauai Foundation for Continuing Education
1986-
Chairman
EPIDEMICS, PANDEMICS, AND MASS HYSTERIA:
From Antiquity to AIDS
Sheraton-Kauai Hotel
March 16-20, 1987
Director
The Dermatology Professors' Conference
Sheraton-Kauai Hotel
Kauai, Hawaii
August 28-30, 1987
Day Chairman,
Hawii Dermatology Seminar
February 19, 1988
Kauai Cases with a Message
Chairman
Plenary Session - I
Australasian Cconference of Dermatology
June 16, 1988
Pertamina Cottages, Bali, Indonesia
Co-Director
Hot Spots in Dermatology
Molokai and Oahu, Hawaii
August 22-28, 1988
Director
The Basics of Searching Medline
October 21-22, 1988
Kauai, Hawaii
Co-Director
The Power of the Art: Humanism, Healing, and
Health Care
June 4-9, 1989
Kauai, Hawaii
Co-Chairman
International Hot Spots in Dermatology
November 2-5, 1989
Molokai, Hawaii
Course Director
Family Practice:; Caring and Curing
January 21-25, 1990
Kauai, Hawaii
Course Director
Medicine & the Arts: A Colloquim
June 26-28, 1990
Bali, Indonesia
Co-Chairman
4th Hawiian Hot Spots in Dermatology
August 17-21, 1990
Kauai, Hawaii
Co-Chairman
Medicine and Literature
February 16-20, 1991
Kauai, Hawaii
Co-Chairman
The Ethics of Society
February 22-25, 1991
Kauai, Hawaii
Co-Chairman
Wilderness & Travel Medicine
March 18-22, 1991
Molokai, Hawaii
Co-Chairman
Fifth Annual Hot Sspots in Dermatology
August 16-20, 1991
Molokai, Hawaii
Chairman
Health Matters: Ethical, Social and
Philosophical Aspects of Health Care
Aaugust 23-26, 1991
Kauai, Hawii
Program Director
Spirituality and Hearing
Wilcox Memorial Hospital
May 16, 1992
Kauai, Hawaii
Co-Chairman
Sixth Annual Hot Spots in Dermatology
August 20-24, 1992
Kauai, Hawaii
Chairman
Seventh Annual Hot Spots in Dermatology:
Joint Hawaii-New Zealand Meeting
August 19-24, 1993
Kauai, Hawaii
Chairman
Eighth Annual Hot Sspots in Dermatology
August 16-20, 1994
Kauai, Hawaii
Director
The Art and the Calling
May 25-29, 1995
Williamstown, Massachusetts
Chairman
Ninth Annual Hot Spots in Dermatology
August 18-22, 1995
Victoria, B.C., Canada
Director
The Art and the Calling
May 20-24, 1996
Williamstown, Massachusetts
Chairman
Tenth Annual Hot Spots in Dermatology
August 16-20, 1996
Victoria, B.C., Canada
Williams College
Medicine and Society
Winter Study Class
January 1997
Director
The Art and the Calling
May 21-25, 1997
Williamstown, Massachusetts
Williams College
Medicine and Society
Winter Study Class
January 1998
Director
The Art and the Calling
May 22-26, 1998
Williamstown, Massachusetts
Williams College
Medicine and the Soul
Winter Study Class
January 1998
The Autumn Colloquium
"The Most Attractive of the Professions"
October 9-11
Williamstown, Massachusetts
Hot Spots in Dermatology
August 19 - 21, 1999
Hyatt Regency Hotel
Poipu, Kauai, Hawaii
Hot Spots Conference
August 17 - 20, 2000
Lanai, Hawaii
Hot Spots Conference
August 17 - 20, 2001
Kauai, Hawaiil
Dermatology Seminar in Cuba
Course Director
Havana, Cuba
January 20 27, 2002
The Art and the Calling
Williamstown, Massachusetts
Hot Spots Conference
August 17 - 20, 2002
The Big Island, Hawaii
Dermatology Seminar in Cuba, Course Director
Havana, Cuba
January 14 21, 2003
Hot Spots Conference
August 17 - 20, 2003
Maui, Hawaii
Co Director Dermanities: The Art and the Calling
Vancouver, British Columbia
June 26 - 27, 2004
Hot Spots Conference
August 17 - 20, 2004
Kauai, Hawaii
Williams College Courses
Free University
Medicine & Literature
January 1994
Lecture Series
On Being A Doctor
Academic Year 1994 - 1995
Free University
The Art of Medicine
January 1996
Course #
Medicine and Society
January 1997
Course #
The Art and the Calling of Becoming a Doctor
January 1998
Course #
Medicine and the Soul
January 1999
Asklepian Society Lectures (Advisor)
Academic Year 1998-
Winter Study
Medicine and the Soul
January 2000
Winter Study
Medicine and Society
January 2002
Student Trip to Cuba
Medicine and Society
Co-Directore and Professor
Anthropology 320 (S) Health and Illness in a Cross-Cultural Perspective
Spring 2003