Primary Job Title Professor - Department of Dermatology & Cutaneous Surgery Primary Organization 
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Location Miami, Florida, United States Regions Greater Miami Area, East Coast, Southern US Gender Male
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Robert Kirsner is a Tenured Professor, Vice Chairman and holds the endowed Stiefel Laboratories Chair in Dermatology in the Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Robert currently serves as director of the University of Miami Hospital Wound Center and Chief of Dermatology at the
University of Miami Hospital.
Kirsner received his undergraduate degree from Texas A&M University (1984) and received his medical degree from the University of Miami (1988) and his doctorate in Epidemiology from the University of Miami (2004). Kirsner completed a fellowship in wound healing (1992) and his residency (1995) in dermatology at the University of Miami.
With research interests in Wound Healing and Skin Cancer Epidemiology, Kirsner serves on the editorial boards for a number of journals in dermatology (including the JID, JAAD, Archives of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery) and Wound Healing and is currently chair of the American Academy of Dermatology’s Council on Education and Maintenance of Certification and a trustee for the Dermatology Foundation.
Kirsner is recently retired board member of the Wound Healing Society, is past president of the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care and the Florida Society of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery.
In addition to career development awards and industry sponsored funding, he is a recipient of NIH, ACS, CDC funding for his research. Independent of books, book chapters and abstracts, he has published over 300 articles
