Boris Lushniak Skin Cancer 2024

Boris Lushniak

Rear Admiral (retired) Boris D. Lushniak, MD, MPH, has been Dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Maryland (UMD) since 2017 after serving as Department Chair at the Uniformed Services University. He served as US Deputy Surgeon General (SG) from 2010-15, Acting SG from 2013-14, and was responsible for the 50th Anniversary SG’s Report on Smoking and Health and the SG Call to Action to Prevent Skin Cancer. During the 2015 ebola response he commanded the US Public Health Service (USPHS) medical unit in Liberia. He attended Northwestern (BS 1981, MD 1983) and Harvard (MPH 1984) and completed residencies in family medicine and dermatology and is certified in dermatology and preventive medicine (occupational). He began his USPHS career in 1988 with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and was part of the team at Ground Zero and the CDC anthrax team. In 2004 he transitioned to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the Office of Counterterrorism and Emerging Threats and was appointed Assistant Commissioner. He retired from the USPHS in 2015 as a Rear Admiral after 27 years in the uniformed services. He is a dermatologist and a public health leader and serves on the Boards of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health and the American College of Preventive Medicine, is a member of the American Academy of Dermatology, the American Dermatological Association, and was co-chair of the National Council on Skin Cancer Prevention (2020-23).