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Please join us in congratulating Dr. Richard White for being awarded the esteemed President’s Volunteer Service Award from President Barack Obama’s Council on Servie and Civic Participation.

Dr. White was recognized for his commitment to strengthening our Nation and for making a difference through volunteer service.

Among many things, Dr. White leads and participates in numerous free skin cancer screenings, volunteers with the less fortunate in our communities, and teaches residents from all over the country. Dr. White was recognized with an official certificate and letter from the White House. The letter from the President Obama states:

“Congratulations on receiving the President’s Volunteer Service Award, and thank you for helping to address the most pressing needs in your community and our country.

In my Inaugural Address, I stated that we need a new era of responsibility–a recognition on the part of every American that we have duties to ourselves, our Nation, and the world. These are duties that we do not grudgingly accept, but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit that giving our all to a difficult task. Your volunteer service demonstrates the kind of commitment to your community that moves America a step closer to its great promise.

Our Nation faces the most challenging economic crisis in a lifetime. We will only renew America if we all work together. Individuals, the private sector, and government must combine efforts to make real and lasting change so that each person has the opportunity to fulfill his or her potential.

While government can open more opportunities for us to serve our communities, it is up to each of us to seize those opportunities. Thank you for your deveoption to service and for doing all you can to shape a better tomorrow for our great Nation.”

Dr. Timothy Woodall, president of the nationally recognized South Carolina Dermatological Association, led and organized the annual medical education meeting for over 150 dermatologists from 5 states.

The two day meeting, held in Charleston, SC, April 8-9, welcomed many expert guest physicians including Ruth Ann Vleugels, MD, from Harvard Medical School, lecturing on the Dermatologist’s Role in a Multisystem Disease as well as Advanced Management of Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus.

The membership is composed of Board-certified or Board-eligible dermatologists from across South Carolina. The Association represents a diverse group of highly skilled and qualified dermatologists, dermatologic surgeons, dermatopathologists and academic researchers from the state’s three major University research institutions. Many are educators involved in the training of young physicians and other medical professionals.

As president of the South Carolina Dermatology Association, Dr. Woodall fulfills the association’s mission to unite those practicing the specialty of dermatology into one effective organization for the purposes of promoting education and advancing the science and art of dermatology in South Carolina. For more information, please click here.

Dr. Richard White, Secretary-Treasurer-Elect of the South Carolina Dermatological Association, lectured at the recent SCDA’s annual education meeting on The Role of the Dermatologist in Inherited Cancer Syndromes. Dr. White also presented a similar lecture at the American Academy of Dermatology’s Annual Meeting in New Orleans this year.

To an audience of over 150 dermatologists from 5 states, Dr. White discussed ways in which dermatologists can identify and screen for patients and families who may be at risk for an inherited cancer syndrome such as breast, ovarian, colon, renal, pancreatic, and melanoma.

Dr. White’s wife, Brook White, is a genetics counselor at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC.