WhitneyCharnellDessioMD, MPH, CWSP(She/Her)

Public Health & General Preventive Medicine

Skin/Wound Care Specialist, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Family Medicine

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Office
Montefiore Medical Center
111 E 210th St
Bronx, NY 10467
Phone+1 203-973-7764

Fax+1 203-298-7027

Stony Brook Medicine/University HospitalResidency, Public Health and General Preventive Medicine, 2011 - 2013
Columbia University Mailman School of Public HealthMPH, 2011 - 2013
New York Downtown HospitalResidency, Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2009 - 2010
NYU Long Island School of MedicineInternship, Transitional Year, 2007 - 2008
Stony Brook University Health Sciences Center School of MedicineClass of 2006
Columbia University School of General StudiesBA, Anthropology, 1996 - 2000

CT State Medical License 2019 - 2025
NY State Medical License 2008 - 2025
NJ State Medical License 2014 - 2024
American Board of Preventive Medicine Public Health & General Preventive Medicine

W. Burghardt Turner Doctoral Fellowship Award Stony Brook University Research Foundation, 2002

PubMed

15 citations
The most common challenges in melanoma diagnosis and how to avoid them.
Ashfaq A. Marghoob, Lily Changchien, Jennifer DeFazio, Whitney C. Dessio, Josep Malvehy
The Australasian Journal of Dermatology. 2009-02-01
66 citations
Religion, spirituality, and healthcare choices of African-American women: results of a national survey.
Whitney C. Dessio, Christine Wade, Maria T. Chao, Fredi Kronenberg, Linda E Cushman
Ethnicity & Disease. 2004-01-01

Journal Articles

The most common pitfalls in melanoma diagnosis and how to avoid them
Marghoob A, …, Dessio W, et al., Australasian Journal of Dermatology, 1/1/2009
Dramatic improvement of palmar-plantar erytrhodysesthesia (PPE) with oral prednisone (letter)
Jaber R, Dessio W, and S Wu, Ann Oncol, 1/1/2007
Religion, spirituality, and healthcare choices of African-American women: Results of a national survey
Dessio W, Wade C, Chao M, et al., Ethnicity & Disease, 1/1/2004

Abstracts/Posters

Doing away with the death sentence of ovarian cancer: Detection of invasive circulating tumor cells for prediction of metastasis in epithelial ovarian cancer. (Poster)
Dessio W, Zhao Q, Yang J, et al., American College of Preventive Medicine Conference, 2/1/2013
Syringocystadenocarcinoma papilliferum: A case report and immunohistochemistry evaluation. (Poster)
Dessio W, Turi GK, and Hanna I, American Journal of Clinical Pathology Annual Meeting, 10/1/2008
Utilization patterns of complementary and alternative medicine among Chinese immigrant women: Results of a national survey. (Poster)
Wade C, Chao M, Kronenberg F, Kalmuss D, Cushman L, Dessio W, The 131st Annual Meeting of APHA, 11/15/2003
Women’s use of complementary and alternative medicine: Health insurance and socioeconomic effects among four race/ethnic groups. (Poster)
Chao M, Kronenberg F, Wade C, Kalmuss D, Cushman L, Dessio W, UNC School of Public Health. The 25th Annual Minority Health Conference, 2/1/2003
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