Laura McGirt, M.D., left, examines Diane Ray at a recent Dermatology Clinic Employee Skin Screening Day. (photo by Anne Rayner)
McGirt lands dermatology award
Laura McGirt, M.D., assistant professor of Dermatology, has received a Physician-Scientist Career Development Award from the Dermatology Foundation.
The awards were announced during the foundation's annual meeting last month in New Orleans.
The first-time award is for $55,000, and is renewable twice.
McGirt, who joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 2010, has a research interest in cutaneous oncology, including the identification of improved diagnostic and prognostic markers for the cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, mycosis fungoides.