Richard L Edelson MD
Aaron B. and Marguerite R. Lerner Professor of Dermatology; Chair and Professor, Department of Dermatology, Yale School of Medicine

Departments & Organizations
Yale Medical GroupCancer Center, Yale: Hematology Program | Cancer Immunology
Dermatology: General Dermatology: Yale Dermatology Associates; Transimmunization | Skin Diseases Research Center, Yale
Immunology and Immunotherapy
Biography
Richard Edelson holds a B.A. from Hamilton College in New York and an M.D. from the Yale School of Medicine. Before coming to Yale in 1986, he was head of the Immunobiology Group in Columbia University’s Comprehensive Cancer Center and associate director of that institution’s General Clinical Research Center. While on the Yale faculty, he has served continuously as chairman of the department of dermatology and, at various times, as director of the cancer center, deputy dean for clinical affairs, director of the Cancer Center’s Lymphoma Research Program, and a member of both the Yale-New Haven Hospital Board of Trustees and the Yale Medical Group Board of Governors. He is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians, and an honorary member of several international medical associations.Education
- M.D., Yale University , 1970
Selected Publication
- Kuo PH, McClennan BL, Carlson K, Wilson LD, Edelson RL, Heald PW, Girardi M. FDGPET/ CT in the Evaluation of Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma. Mol Imaging Biol 10.1007/s11307- 007-1027-y. 2007.
Articles

Sept/Oct 2008
Doctor who stays in touch wins prize for clinical excellence
After so many years of training, one might expect a doctor’s head to be full of nothing but high-level information. But...

March 2012
Dermatology chair receives accolade as Physician of the Year
Richard L. Edelson, M.D., chair and Aaron and Marguerite Lerner Professor of Dermatology, has been named one of three...

June/July 2005
More integrated care for cancer patients, collaboration of scientists and clinicians are goals of proposed new YNHH building
According to Yale-New Haven Hospital President and CEO Joseph A. Zaccagnino, M.P.H., the hospital’s planned new...

Oct/Nov 2005
Benefit bike ride raises $250,000 for Yale survivors’ clinic
Champion bicyclist Lance Armstrong, whose yellow bracelet has become a cultural icon, may be Earth’s most famous cancer...

Sept/Oct 2008
Quick study, bighearted contributor
When Louis Chênevert was named president of United Technologies Corporation (UTC) in 2006, his mentor, Chairman of the...

Nov/Dec 2007
For patients, research … and for Yale
Joel E. Smilow, a 1954 graduate of Yale College, has done a great deal for his alma mater. In the 1980s he made a...

May/June 2006
City vote clears way for building of cancer treatment center
A unanimous vote by the City of New Haven’s Board of Aldermen making changes to the city’s zoning regulations and...

December 2010
Alumna supports doctors who join her on a road less traveled
Medicine offers satisfying careers in both science and patient care, and at the School of Medicine, students and...

Nov/Dec 2009
Brothers follow parents’ example to help fight cancer
It would be an understatement to say that philanthropy runs in the family of Richard S. Sackler, M.D., and his brother,...


