Alumni

After earning his medical degree from UB, Thomas J. Lawley trained in dermatology at Yale University and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He served as senior investigator for the dermatology branch of the NCI, later becoming chair of the dermatology department at Emory University School of Medicine.

During his tenure as chair, the department increased its faculty to 18 and rose to No. 3 for NIH funding. Lawley then was appointed dean of the Emory’s school of medicine in 1996, where he oversaw an exponential increase in research funding, launched a new strategic plan for research after a 10-year lapse, increased investigators by 80%, added half-a-million gross square feet of new research space and created new programs and services to support research.

Lawley has written more than 200 book chapters, research articles and abstracts and served as chair of the board of the American Association of Medical Colleges and other health care boards.