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Acknowledgements

Author Profiles

Develyn Vetos

University of Kansas School of Medicine

Develyn Vetos, MD, is beginning her transitional year at the University of Kansas School of Medicine in Wichita, KS. She earned her MD at the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine and her bachelor’s degree in human biology from South Dakota State University in Brookings, SD. She will complete her dermatology residency at the University of Kansas School of Medicine in Kansas City, KS.

B. Joel Tjarks

Physicians Laboratory

B. Joel Tjarks, MD, is a staff dermatopathologist at Physicians Laboratory in Sioux Falls, SD. He received his medical degree and completed his pathology residency at the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine. He completed his dermatopathology fellowship at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, PA. He is a clinical assistant professor at the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine.

Nicholas Olson

Physicians Laboratory

Nicholas Olson, MD, is a staff pathologist at Physicians Laboratory in Sioux Falls, SD. He received his medical degree at the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis, MN and completed his pathology residency at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH. Following residency, he completed his hematopathology fellowship at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI and a second fellowship in bone and soft tissue pathology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.