Faculty, Residents and Trainees
Welcome, New Dermatology Faculty!
Hye Jin (Leah) Chung, MD
Assistant Professor of Dermatology
On August 1 Dr. Leah Chung joined our faculty as an Assistant Professor of Dermatology. Dr. Chung received her M.D. degree from the Yonsei University College of Medicine in Seoul, Korea in 2001 and her M.M.S. degree from the Yonsei University Graduate School of Medicine in Seoul, Korea in 2005. She further completed an internship year (2001-02), dermatology residency (2002-06) and a one-year dermatology fellowship (2006-07) all at the Yonsei University College of Medicine. In 2007, after arriving in the United States, she completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in dermatology at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA (2007-10), and a one-year internship in medicine at the Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, MA (2010-11). She returned to Thomas Jefferson University to complete a dermatology residency (2011-14). In 2014 she came to the Boston University School of Medicine to complete a fellowship in dermatopathology. Dr. Chung will be signing out cases in the Skin Pathology Lab and also seeing patients in our dermatology clinics. She has a specialty interest in the treatment of complex acne cases, scar (acne scar, burn scar, postoperative scar prevention, etc), cosmetic dermatology, and disease conditions in ethnic skin.
Jean McGee, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Dermatology
On August 15, Dr. Jean McGee joined our faculty as an Assistant Professor of Dermatology. Dr. McGee received her A.B. degree in Biological Sciences and M.S. degree in Nutritional Biochemistry from Cornell University in 2003 and 2006, respectively. She then completed her Ph.D. degree in Molecular Biology from Princeton University in 2010 and her M.D. degree from Rutgers University in 2012. She recently graduated from her dermatology residency program at BUSM (June 2016), where she was named Assistant Chief Resident in her second year (2014-15) and Chief Resident in her third year (2015-16). Dr. McGee will split her time between her research lab, where she will serve as the Director of the Laboratory for Translational Epigenetic Research focused on the development of epigenetic therapies for skin diseases, and her clinical practice. She has a specialty interest in rosacea, cosmetic dermatology, and ethnic skin.
Deborah Lang, PhD
Associate Professor of Dermatology
On October 1 Dr. Deborah Lang joined our faculty as an Associate Professor of Dermatology. Dr. Lang received her Ph.D. degree from Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1998 as an Oslinker Fellow in Molecular Pathobiology, with a thesis focused on transcription factors, cancer biology, and cellular biology. In 2004 she completed an American Heart Association post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, with a focus on melanocyte developmental biology, stem cells, and transcriptional regulation. After serving as Research Associate at the University of Pennsylvania, Deborah accepted a position as Instructor at the University of Chicago in 2005 and was promoted to an Assistant Professor in 2008. In Chicago, the lab made impactful findings in melanocyte stem cells and cancer research. Dr. Lang will continue basic science research on the molecular and cellular biology of melanoma. The main focus of the laboratory is on transcriptional regulators that are essential for normal melanocyte development, and how these factors are dysregulated in the promotion of melanoma.
Thomas Ruenger, MD, PhD
Professor of Dermatology
On November 1, Dr. Thomas Ruenger again joined our faculty as a Professor of Dermatology. Dr. Ruenger received his MD degree from Christian-Albrecht University in Kiel, Germany in 1985. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, MD from 1986 – 1989, he completed his dermatology residency training at the Julius Maximilian University in Würzburg, Germany in 1992 and a fellowship in allergology in 1994. In 1995, he was recruited to the Georg-August University in Göttingen, Germany to serve as Vice-Chair of the Dermatology Department. In 1999, he was recruited to our department, where he served in many leadership roles until his recruitment to Roger Williams Medical Center in Providence as Chair of the Dermatology Department in 2014. Dr. Ruenger is an internationally recognized expert in photobiology and photodermatology and is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Photodermatology, Photoimmunology & Photomedicine. Dr. Ruenger’s areas of special expertise are photodermatology, phototherapy, PDT, psoriasis, vitiligo, complex medical dermatology, cutaneous oncology, and occupational dermatology/patch testing. He will see patients in our general dermatology clinics, will oversee the phototherapy unit, and serve as the director inpatient dermatology consult service with covering inpatient and ER daytime consult service three days a week.
Farewell to our graduating residents and trainees!
Third Year Residents
International Trainees
