Dorothea Barton, MD

Dorothea Barton headshot

Undergraduate:
 Stanford University

Medical School:
Dartmouth Medical School

Internship:
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Internal Medicine

Residency:
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Dermatology

Fellowship:
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Dermatopathology

Dr. Barton completed her residency in Dermatology at Dartmouth-Hitchcock in 2011 and fellowship in Dermatopathology at Dartmouth-Hitchcock in 2013, and has been a staff physician ever since.She is the Co-founder and Co-Director of the multidisciplinary Dermatology-Rheumatology Clinic and serves as the Section Chief of Complex Medical Dermatology at DHMC.

She is the author of numerous peer reviewed publications in the areas of her research interests, which include dermatologic manifestations of rheumatologic and autoimmune disease, dermato-epidemiology, and the histologic, molecular and clinical manifestations of skin cancer. She is involved in active collaborations with basic science faculty at Dartmouth, and is a co-investigator on several grants including an NIH funded study investigating the inflammatory pathways in autoimmune skin disease.

In addition, she loves to teach medical students, residents and fellows, and has been honored to mentor students and residents at DH. At the heart of her research, educational and leadership efforts, is her love of clinical medicine. Her work revolves around her patients – their problems and their care, which is centered in her busy and active clinical practice.

Professional Interests:
Autoimmune skin disease including dermatomyositis, lupus and scleroderma, Complex Medical Dermatology, Dermatopathology, Dermatoepidemology

Personal Interests:
Ultramarathon running, Ceramics, Raising Twins

Selected Publications:

  • Barton DT, Zens MS, Marmarelis EL, Gilbert-Diamond D, Karagas MR. Cosmetic Tattooing and Early Onset Basal Cell Carcinoma: A Population-based Case-Control Study from New Hampshire. Epidemiology. 2020;31: 448-450.
  • LeBlanc RE, Barton DT (equally contributing authors), Li Z, Angeles CV, Ernstoff MS, Bagley E, Wimmer D, Wong SL, Barth RJ Jr, Shirai K, Yan S. Small and Isolated Immunohistochemistry-positive Cells in Melanoma Sentinel Lymph Nodes Are Associated With Disease-specific and Recurrence-free Survival Comparable to that of Sentinel Lymph Nodes Negative for Melanoma. Am J Surg Pathol. 2019;43: 755-765.
  • Barton DT, Zens MS, Nelson HH, Christensen BC, Storm CA, Perry AE, Karagas MR. Distinct Histologic Subtypes and Risk Factors for Early Onset Basal Cell Carcinoma: A Population-Based Case Control Study from New Hampshire. J Invest Dermatol. 2016;136: 533-535

 

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