Dermatology

Welcome to the Cook County Health Dermatology Residency Program.

Training at Cook County Health provides a unique experience. We are one of the few dermatology residency programs that operate in a safety-net hospital. We are also the healthcare provider for Cook County Jail, the second-largest urban county jail in the United States. The variety and complexity of conditions that our residents manage are immensely broad. Our patients are young, racially diverse, and in need of help. We are fortunate to be able to offer them our dermatology services and participate in their care. We see all patients, regardless of income, insurance, legal status, and ability to pay.

Many of our patients do not speak English. We have easy access to interpreters for any needs that may arise. Most of our residents learn significant medical Spanish by the time they graduate.

The program at Cook County is distinctive: all clinics are resident continuity clinics throughout the three years of training, with attending supervision for every patient.

We have one main clinic location and a weekly clinic at the nearby CORE Center, one of the largest HIV treatment centers in the country, which cares for over 5,000 patients annually.

Procedural training is complemented with a variety of lasers (PDL, Nd:YAG long and short pulsed, fractional Er:YAG, BBL, Excimer), and a weekly surgery clinic which includes Micrographic Dermatologic Surgery (Mohs).

Our dermatopathologist is in-house, and in-clinic, as well. Once a month, a psychiatrist joins us in clinic to see patients as an interdisciplinary team.
All full-time faculty provide inpatient consultation services to the John H. Stroger Hospital, which is adjacent to our clinic.

Successful candidates are those that like to work in a group, are cheerful, supportive, and open to a wide range of patients from a variety of social groups and spanning the spectrum of dermatological diseases. We take pride in our collaborative and enjoyable work environment and invite open minded, passionate individuals, willing to care for and engage with our patients and their experiences.

Vesna Petronic-Rosic, MD, MSc, MBA

Third-Year Residents (2022 – 2025) 

• Jacob Dudzinski, MD
  St. Louis University School of Medicine
• Subuhi Kaul, MD
  Kasturba Medical College Mangalore
• Hiren Kolli, MD
  Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

Second-Year Residents (2023 – 2026) 

• Warren Perry, MD
  Yale University School of Medicine
• Ryan Wealther, MD
  UT Health San Antonio
• Shannon, Younessi, MD
  Albany Medical College

First-Year Residents (2024 – 2027) 

• Adam Garibay, MD
  Baylor College of Medicine
• Elizabeth Mata-Thimm, MD
  University of Arizona
• Anika Mazumder
  St. Louis University School of Medicine
• Ana Rodriguez, MD
  Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
• Jeffrey Varghese, MD
  Northwestern University Medical School

Department Chair and Program Director (interim): Vesna Petronic-Rosic, MD, MSc, MBA

Mohs Surgeon: Aleksandar Krunic, MD, PhD and Noor Tazudeen, MD

Dermatopathologist: Vesna Petronic-Rosic, MD, MSc, MBA

Faculty:
Joerg Albrecht, MD, PhD
Shilpa Mehta, MD
Vesna Petronic-Rosic, MD, MSc, MBA
Noor Tazudeen, MD
Warren Piette, MD