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HOWARD MAIBACH is Professor of Dermatology, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco. Dr. Maibach serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Dermatology, £xce1pta Medica, and the Journal of Toxicology. Clinical Toxicology (Marcel Dekker, Inc.). His research includes work in dermatology, toxicology, and physiology, and he is the author of over 1400 papers in these and related fields, and coeditor of Neonatal Skin (with Edward K. Boisits), Cutaneous Infestations and Insect Bites (with Milton Orkin), Percutaneous Absorption. Second L,"dition (with Robert L. Bronaugh) and Psoriasis. Second Edition (with Henry H. Roenigk, Jr.) (all titles Marcel Dekker, Inc.). Dr. Maibach is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a member of the American Academy of Dermatology, the Society for Investigative Dermatology, the American Federation for Clinical Research, the American Medical Association, and the American Dermatologic Association. He received the M.D. degree ( 1955) from Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.