2002 Rose Hirschler Award - Nia K. Terezakis, MD | News & Information of the Women's Dermatologic Society

The Rose Hirschler Award is named in honor of Dr. Rose Hirschler, the first known female dermatologist in the United States. This award is presented annually by the Women’s Dermatologic Society to physicians chosen for having made significant contributions to medicine and dermatology, and who by their achievement, have served to enhance the role of women in the dermatologic specialty.

The WDS is pleased to announce that the prestigious Rose Hirschler Award will be presented to Nia K. Terezakis, MD at our Annual Luncheon in New Orleans. Dr. Terezakis will be receiving this award in her hometown, where she has been in private practice for almost 30 years. She holds clinical faculty appointments at Tulane and Louisiana State University. She has been active nationally and internationally as a lecturer on clinical, surgical and cosmetic issues. Her publications include textbook chapters, original articles in respected journals as well as original research with topical retinoids for photo-aged skin and for hair growth.

Dr. Terezakis has been a visiting guest professor for the national dermatology meeting in Australia and at several universities in the United States, including Stanford, Yale, Mayo Clinic, Columbia, University of Miami and California School of Medicine. She has been interviewed on The Today Show, Good Morning America and numerous regional television programs.

We are honored to add Nia K. Terezakis, MD to the list of Rose Hirschler Award Winners:

2008	Janet G. Hickman, MD
2007	E. Dorinda Shelley, MD
2006	Lenore Kakita, MD
2005	Patricia G. Engasser, MD
2004	Richard Odom, MD
2003	Elizabeth I. McBurney, MD
2002	Nia K. Terezakis, MD
2001	Gloria Graham, MD
2001	Ruth Freinkel, MD
2000	Barbara A. Gilchrest, MD
1999	Inga Silberberg-Sinakin, MD & G. Jeanette Thorbecke, MD, PhD
1998	Antoinette F. Hood, MD
1997	Vera Price, MD
1996	Wilma F. Bergfeld, MD
1995	Ricky K. Schachter, MD
1993	Marie-Louise Johnson, MD
1992	Stephania Jablonska, MD
1991	Frances J. Storrs, MD
1990	Walter B. Shelley, MD
1989	Nancy Burton Esterly, MD & Margaret Gray Wood, MD
1988	Miriam Chancy Reed, MD

Mark Your Calendar: WDS 34th Annual Luncheon Meeting - 2009 in San Francisco, CA March 6-10 (Details...)