Hood To Direct American Board of Dermatology

INDIANAPOLIS -- Antoinette F. Hood, MD, has been named executive director of the American Board of Dermatology. The five-year appointment was effective Jan.1.

Dr. Hood is a professor of dermatology and of pathology and laboratory medicine and director of the Division of Dermatopathology at the Indiana University School of Medicine.

She has served on the board of directors for the American Board of Dermatology, the American Academy of Dermatology and the Women's Dermatologic Society and as president of the American Society of Dermatopathology.

Among Dr. Hood's professional honors are teaching awards from IU and Johns Hopkins University, where she was on faculty before coming to Indiana in 1993, and the Rose Hirschler Award, the highest honor awarded by the Women's Dermatologic Society.

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