HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – The Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine has named a Boone County, West Virginia, doc the caller seat of its Department of Dermatology.
Shane E. Cook, M.D., assumed the relation of section seat and subordinate prof of dermatology connected Nov. 1, and oversees the clinical, probe and acquisition activities of the department. Cook volition enactment to grow the department’s objective services and probe activities with eventual goals of establishing a dermatology residency programme and fellowship grooming opportunities.
Cook earned his Bachelor of Science from West Virginia Wesleyan College successful Buckhannon, West Virginia, followed by his Doctor of Medicine astatine Marshall University. He completed his dermatology residency astatine the Medical University of South Carolina successful Charleston, South Carolina, wherever helium served arsenic main resident. For the past 3 years, helium has served arsenic a dermatologist astatine Boone Memorial Hospital successful Madison, West Virginia.
“As some an alumnus and West Virginia native, Dr. Cook exemplifies our aesculapian school’s committedness to agrarian health, and his expertise volition assistance guarantee patients crossed confederate West Virginia person entree to outstanding dermatology attraction and treatment,” said Bobby L. Miller, M.D., interim dean of the schoolhouse of medicine.
Cook’s areas of objective expertise see tegument cancers, acne, psoriasis, eczema and rosacea. He is certified by the American Board of Dermatology, a chap of the American Academy of Dermatology and vice president of the West Virginia Dermatologic Society.
Cook volition signifier astatine the Marshall Dermatology locations successful Huntington (1934 11th Avenue) and successful Teays Valley (300 Corporate Center Drive, Scott Depot). For appointments and referrals, delight telephone 304-691-1930.
Cook succeeds longtime Huntington dermatologist Charles Yarbrough, M.D., who served arsenic inaugural seat of the section since 2014. Yarbrough announced his intent to measurement backmost from his relation arsenic seat earlier this year, but remains with the section and volition proceed to spot patients and thatch aesculapian students and residents connected a part-time basis.
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About the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine
The Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine is simply a community-based aesculapian schoolhouse established successful 1977. Located successful Huntington, West Virginia, the School of Medicine trains physicians, scientists and different professionals to conscionable the unsocial wellness attraction needs of agrarian and underserved communities. Learn much astatine jcesom.marshall.edu.
Date Posted: Friday, November 11, 2022
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