AshleyWysongMDMS, FAAD, FACMS

Summary

• Dr. Wysong is UNMC Department of Dermatology Founding Chair and William W. Bruce MD Distinguished Chair of Dermatology. She is an accomplished leader, a nationally recognized Mohs micrographic surgeon, a translational skin cancer researcher, a skilled lecturer, and a dedicated educator and mentor.Dr. Wysong serves as the Director of the Skin Cancer Program at the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center. She holds courtesty appointments in Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery and Pathology & Microbiology in the College of Medicine as well as Epidemiology in the College of Public Health. Dr. Wysong is a member of the Graduate Studies Faculty at the University of Nebraska in Cancer Biology where she mentors PhD, masters, and other students.
  
  Dr. Wysong has an outstanding educational background receiving her B.S. in biology, psychology, and chemistry at the University of Missouri where she was also a 6-Time All-American and National Champion in Track and Field. After running professionally for Nike, Dr. Wysong obtained her master’s degree in Epidemiology in the Stanford University’s Department of Health Research and Policy and her medical degree at Duke University School of Medicine where she was valedictorian of her medical school class. Dr. Wysong completed her residency in dermatology at Stanford University where was elected to serve as chief resident. Her fellowship in procedural dermatology and Mohs micrographic surgery was completed at Scripps Clinic under the direction of Dr. Hugh Greenway in Mohs surgery, Dr. Victor Ross in laser and cosmetic dermatology, and Dr. Leland Housman in veins. Dr. Greenway, Dr. Wysong's mentor, trained with Dr. Fredrick Mohs, who invented "Mohs" surgery. Prior to coming to UNMC, Dr. Wysong was University of Southern California’s Director of Mohs Micrographic Surgery and Procedural Dermatology in the Department of Dermatology and the Director of the Multidisciplinary Skin Cancer Tumor Board at the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Dr. Wysong authors review article in NEJM
Ashley Wysong, MD, chair of the UNMC Department of Dermatology, highlights squamous-cell skin cancer.

Distinguished scientist: Ashley Wysong, MD
Dr. Wysong, UNMC Department of Dermatology founding chair, professor and William W. Bruce Distinguished Chair, is named UNMC Distinguished Scientist.

Get to Know UNMC's Dr. Ashley Wysong
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California skin cancer surgeon named Chair of UNMC's new dermatology department
Dr. Ashley Wysong, who officially starts May 1 as Founding Department Chair, comes from the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California