Howard I Maibach is an American dermatologist, professor of Dermatology at the

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(UCSF). His major contributions include seminal work in wound management, and extensive work in patient care, dermatophysiology, dermatophamacology, and dermatotoxicology. In 2013, he was awarded the "Master Dermatologist Award" by the

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for his outstanding contributions to the practice and teaching of Dermatology.

Biography

Maibach was born on 18 July 1929, in

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. He graduated from Tulane University School of Medicine in 1955, and completed his internship from William Beaumont Army Hospital,

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, TX in 1956. He later completed his Fellowship from Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in 1961. He also practiced neuropsychiatry for few months in 1956.

Professional work

He is a specialist in contact and

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, including the

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and pharmacological aspects. . He is also known for his work in neonatal skin,

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of topical drugs and per-cutaneous penetration. He has written over 3,000 research articles, which according to an estimate could be a world record itation needed

Controversy

In December 2022, UCSF released the results of a preliminary investigation into his research conducted on prisoners at the California Medical Facility at Vacaville. The report raised ethical concerns over how the research was conducted, especially with regards to getting informed consent from and communicating research risks to participants, and the fact that many of the prisoners were being assessed or treated for psychiatric conditions. The report noted that the experiments did not involve treating medical conditions the patients had, in some cases involved exposing patients to herbicides and insecticides. In his response to the report, Maibach expressed remorse regarding his involvement in the research, stating "

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the work I did with colleagues at CMF was considered by many to be appropriate by the standards of the day, n retrospectthose standards were clearly evolving. I obviously would not work under those circumstances today... I have sincere remorse in relationship to these efforts some decades ago." The University of California at San Francisco issued an apology for its role in supporting the research.

Honors

Maibach was awarded an honorary PhD by Universite de Paris-Sud in 1985 and

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, Lyon in 2008. In 2013, he was awarded the "Master Dermatologist Award" by the

References

Shohreh Nafisi, Howard I Maibach, Skin penetration of nanoparticles, Emerging nanotechnologies in immunology, Elsevier, 2018, 47-88. Shohreh Nafisi, Howard I Maibach, Cosmetic science and technology: theoretical principles and applications,Elsevier, 2017, 337. American dermatologists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{academic-bio-stub