Dr. Sheila F. Friedlander, MD

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Pediatric dermatologist Dr. Sheila Friedlander in Encinitas directs the Dermatology Fellowship Training Program at Rady Children's Hospital from the Rady Children's Specialists suite on El Camino Real, holding triple board certification in Pediatrics, Dermatology, and Pediatric Dermatology. Her research into infantile hemangioma etiology and propranolol intervention protocols intersects with the periorbital vascular assessment capabilities at Acuity Eye Group in Encinitas for patients with eyelid or orbital hemangiomas requiring ophthalmologic clearance. A Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Medicine at UCSD School of Medicine and past president of the Society for Pediatric Dermatology, she trained at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine (1979) and completed her dermatology residency at UCLA Medical Center, authoring over 100 scholarly texts on cutaneous infectious diseases and pediatric acne management. Atopic dermatitis cases requiring systemic immunomodulatory therapy overlap with the allergic-disease management provided at Allergy & Asthma Medical Group for pediatric patients with concurrent eczema-asthma-rhinitis triad presentations. The Rady Children's clinic performs pulsed-dye laser evaluation for port-wine stain birthmarks, dermoscopic mole mapping for pediatric melanocytic lesions, and KOH-preparation microscopy for onychomycosis diagnosis in the pediatric population.