The Harvard Medical School (HMS) Department of Dermatology (DOD) is a joint multi-institutional teaching program, whose purpose is to provide leadership to the field of dermatology.

The program involves cooperative clinical and research activities with multiple teaching hospitals and affiliated medical centers. These include the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the Lahey Clinic, the Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Children's Hospital and the Massachusetts General Hospital. Faculty at the BWH also provide clinical care at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Jamaica Plain and West Roxbury Veteran's Administration Hospitals. Clinical care and research activities are integrated to provide the best patient care to the Boston community and beyond.

One department - Many Institutions
For more than forty years, the Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals have benefited from this multi-institutional structure. The HMS Department of Dermatology attracts the best trainees and provides a full spectrum of services and specialized expertise to the medical community.

The HMS-affiliated hospitals have superb clinical dermatology programs with special diagnostic and therapeutic capabilities in laser medicine, phototherapy, dermatologic surgery, Moh's surgery and other specialized procedures.