Physician Profiles 



 





Dr. Charles Sheard
is a graduate of the University of Toronto Medical Facility, he took his internship at the Toronto General Hospital followed by four years in the Royal Canadian Air force Medical Branch serving on several overseas squadrons: 418 (Fighter Command RAF) and 423 (Coastal Command RAF). Subsequently, Dr. Sheard was Surgical Houseman at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, then Resident in Dermatology at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, rising to Chief Resident in 1949. Dr. Sheard is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, a Fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology. Board Certified in Dermatology and Syphillogy in 1948, he is an Emeritus Associate Professor of Dermatology at Cornell University Medical College in NYC, and has written a textbook called Treatment in Dermatology. He has been in dermatology practice in Stamford,Connecticut since 1950, and conducts a Dermatology Skin Clinic at the local hospital in Grenada, BWI for four months each year.

Dr. Rhett Drugge is a native of Darien, CT and a graduate of Harvard University. Upon graduation with a BA in Intellectual History, he went to Capitol Hill and wrote senatorial speeches. A few years later, he distinguished himself in medical research at Yale University by discovering the receptor for cyclosporin A (the major drug for organ transplant patients). He then matriculated at New York Medical College in Valhalla, N.Y. and served his medical rounds at Stamford Hospital. He did his medical internship at New York University and then did his Dermatology Residency at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Board Certified in Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery in 1992, He is a member of the Society for Investigative Dermatology, the American Academy of Dermatology, the American Society for Mohs Surgery, and is the founder of the Internet Dermatology Society (http://www.telemedicine.org) where he is the chief editor of the Electronic Textbook of Dermatology. He is active in interviewing prospective undergraduates for Harvard as well as serving as a faculty member of the American Academy of Dermatology. His special academic interests include immunology, fat cell biology and dermatology information systems.