Laura Pincus
MD
Medicine
Dermatopathology, Dermatology
San Francisco, California, United States
Dr. Laura B. Pincus earned her undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard University. During medical school, she received a Howard-Hughes fellowship to spend a year in a basic science laboratory studying T-cell trafficking to the skin. After medical school, she completed an internship in Internal Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital and then moved to San Francisco for a residency in dermatology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
Following residency, Dr. Pincus spent a year conducting clinical research in cutaneous lymphoma while also working in the Cutaneous Lymphoma Clinic at UCSF. The subsequent year, she completed a fellowship in dermatopathology at UCSF.<\p> <\p>In 2009, she received the Weedon Award, given by the International Society of Dermatopathology, for the best article published in the American Journal of Dermatopathology. The publication examined the relationship between subcutaneous panniculitis-like T-cell lymphoma and lupus erythematosus.
Dr. Pincus joined the faculty of the UCSF Dermatopathology and Oral Pathology Service in 2010. She both serves as a dermatopathologist and the Co-Director of the Cutaneous Lymphoma Clinic. Her areas of interest include cutaneous lymphomas, connective tissue diseases, cutaneous infectious diseases, and melanocytic neoplasms. She enjoys teaching residents and medical students both dermatology and dermatopathology.