The Department of Dermatology & Skin Surgery is a comprehensive medical and surgical dermatology practice treating a wide variety of skin conditions in the adult, pediatric and geriatric population. Our Dermatologists provide full scope outpatient dermatology services including cancer screening and skin surveys, diagnosis of all primary skin conditions, and dermatoses related to underlying acute or chronic medical illness, cosmetic evaluations, and in-office procedures. We have a busy outpatient dermatology practice with expertise in both medical dermatology and skin cancer diagnosis and management, as well as cosmetic dermatology, in coordination with plastic surgery. Our future planning includes additional dermatologists and outpatient treatment services.

The SWBMG Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism specialists offer personalized care for patients with hormonal disorders, providing consultative services for a wide variety of endocrine disorders in our outpatient clinic. Additionally, our board-certified and fellowship-trained endocrinologists offer consultative care for hospitalized patients with acute endocrinology needs, while proudly serving as faculty for an Endocrinology Fellowship. An overview of our clinics include a Diabetes Clinic, Weight Management & Metabolic Center, Thyroid Clinic, and a Bone & Calcium Disorders Clinic.

Our team of medical oncologists and their staff provides personalized, multi-disciplinary care to our patients with a wide variety of hematologic and oncologic diagnosis. We provide boutique patient care with a very patient centered, high touch approach and proudly achieve better outcomes compared to national benchmarks with an excellent depth of subspecialties including breast, plastic, hepatobiliary, colorectal, thoracic and neurosurgery. We also have support from subspecialty providers in pathology, radiation oncology, palliative care, cancer genetics, nutrition, mental health, physical and occupational therapy among others.

The spectrum of services we support include:

– Evaluation and treatment of a wide range of cancer diagnoses.

– High risk cancer surveillance clinic – including individualized risk assessment, genetic testing, imaging surveillance plan, diet/lifestyle counseling for risk reduction.

– Clinical exams

– Treatment with a variety of anticancer systemic therapies including chemotherapy, immunotherapy, targeted therapy.

– Treatment with a variety of hematologic agents including red and white blood cell boosters, iron infusions, phlebotomy, immunomodulatory agents, targeted therapies.

– Participation in local and national clinical trials to help bring new testing and treatment options to our patients before they are widely available.

– Coordinated multidisciplinary care with subspecialist physicians in surgery, radiation oncology, pathology as well as surveillance nurses, genetic counselors, nutritionists, social workers.

The inpatient palliative care program at California Pacific Medical Center began seeing patients over the summer of 2004. Since that time, we have become integrated into the fabric of CPMC, seeing patients at all levels of care from the Emergency Department to the ICU, inpatient floors to skilled nursing facilities. On average we see approximately 1,800 new inpatients a year.