Camila K. Janniger MD was born Kamila Barbara Krysicka in the elegant Baltic seaside resort-town of Sopot, once part of the Free State of Gdansk. Her mother is a hero of the Warsaw Resurrection and of Polish noble lineage. Her father is a former public prosecutor who escaped by bicycling hundreds of miles into Romania as the Russia and Germany began World War II by invading Poland, eventually fighting in France and being evacuated to England, where he ultimately met and married her mother once her final prisoner camp was liberated. Camila was raised in Warsaw, where she completed all her education, graduating from the Medical University of Warsaw in 1984. She was active in Catholic student associations and a founder of the Solidarity medical student movement, risking arrest alongside other brave colleagues to oppose communism. While a tourist visiting her brother in New Jersey a few months after graduation, she visited a nearby American medical school, where she met and ultimately married an expatriate Californian. She took one of his family names, Janniger, and began her career with a rotating internship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, followed by her dermatology residency at the New Jersey Medical School. She is a recent mother, giving birth to Edmund Jack Janniger on December 30, 1995.

Dr. Janniger is board certified in Dermatology. She was appointed Clinical Assistant Professor and Chief of Pediatric Dermatology in 1990, and was promoted to Clinical Associate Professor of Dermatology and Pediatrics at the New Jersey Medical School in 1995. She was promoted to Clinical Professor in 2002. She has been a member of the editorial board of Cutis since 1991. In 1992 she was named as founding Pediatric Dermatology editor, a position she retains. She is also a member of the editorial boards of Medical Mycology and Clinical Dermatology and is a managing editor of eMedicine Dermatology. She has edited 2 monographs, and is the author of 32 book chapters, 142 articles and 21 other publications. She was elected a Charter Member of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, New Jersey Medical School Chapter, is a Fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology, served a three year term as a Member of the National Tuberous Sclerosis Association Professional Advisory Board, and was named to Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare in its first edition. Dr. Janniger sees private patients in her office at 42 Locust Avenue, Wallington, New Jersey 07057 (201-472-5044).

Dr. Schwartz, a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, spent his four undergraduate years at the University of California at Berkeley, graduating with a BA in political science in 1969, and remaining there for an MPH in medical administration in 1970. He then went to Manhattan, spending the next four years at New York Medical College, from which he graduated as a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha National Honor Medical Society. He trained in dermatology at the University of Cincinnati and at Roswell Park Memorial Institute — State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine.

He rose the academic ladder, from the University of Arizona and the University of California at San Francisco to the New Jersey Medical School, where in 1983 he became the first permanent head of dermatology, establishing a dermatology residency program in 1984. He is Professor and Head, Dermatology, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Professor of Preventive Medicine and Community Health at the New Jersey Medical School.

Dr. Schwartz is board certified in Dermatology and in Diagnostic and Laboratory Immunology. He is particularly proud of his book, Skin Cancer Recognition and Management, pubished by Springer Verlag. He has also written or edited 6 monographs, and is the author of over 50 book chapters, 225 articles, and 75 other publications. Many of these are in the area of dermatologic oncology, where he has had a special interest in epidermal tumors and Kaposi’s sarcoma since 1978. He was elected a member, Honoris Causa, of the Polish Dermatologic Society. He is a member of the Cutis editorial board, as well as that of American Family Physician , Chronica Dermatologica (Rome), Research Communications in Molecular Pathology and Pharmacology, Postepy Dermatologii (Poznan), and the Acta Dermatovenerologica Alpina, Pannonica et Adriatica. He is an assistant editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology and was recently appointed associate editor of the Journal of Medicine.