Board-certified in both pediatrics (1983) and dermatology (1990) with sub-specialty certification in pediatric dermatology, Dr. Sheila Fallon Friedlander holds a Hillcrest clinical footprint as Professor of Dermatology and Pediatrics at UC San Diego and Director of the Dermatology Fellowship Training Program at Rady Children's Hospital. Friedlander earned her MD from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine in 1979 and completed residencies at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and UCLA, overlapping professionally with fellow UCSD pediatric dermatology faculty Wynnis Tom, MD. Her clinical focus covers infantile hemangiomas, port-wine birthmarks, tinea capitis and pediatric onychomycosis, atopic dermatitis in children, neonatal rashes, and cutaneous manifestations of systemic pediatric disease. Research contributions include more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and a randomized trial of topical timolol for infantile hemangioma, work frequently co-authored with longtime UCSD pediatric dermatology division chief Eichenfield Lawrence MD. She has served as past president of the Society for Pediatric Dermatology and sits on the American Academy of Dermatology Board of Directors, positions that shape national guidelines on pediatric acne and childhood fungal infection management. Complex referrals center on PHACE syndrome workups for infants with segmental facial hemangiomas, coordinating dermatology, neurology, and cardiology input before starting systemic propranolol therapy.