Dean Scott Morrell, M.D., Associate Professor, Program Director, Director of Pediatric and Adolescent Dermatology

Education/Degrees:

  • Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, B.S., 1987 Magna cum laude
  • Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, PA, M.P.T. 1989 with Academic Distinction
  • University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, M.D. 1997

 

Postgraduate Training:

  • Intern in Pediatrics, UNC Hospitals, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1997–1998
  • Resident in Dermatology, UNC Hospitals, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1998–2000
  • Fellow in Pediatric Dermatology, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, 2000-2001

 

 Presentations:

 

·                       Morrell DS. Pearls from UNC Pediatric Dermatology. NC Pediatric Society (Sunset Beach, NC).

·                       Nagaraj LV, Morrell DS. Multifocal proliferative fasciitis. Cases of the year. Society for Pediatric Dermatology (Charleston, SC).  June 2004.

·                       Wever A, Stein A, Goldsmith LA, Morrell DS.  CD34 positive eruptive fibromas.  Cases of the year.  Society for Pediatric Dermatology (Washington, DC).  February 2004.

·                       Morrell DS. Toxic Erythemas in Children.  NC Dermatology Association (Pinehurst, NC) January 2004

·                       Morrell DS. Toxin-mediated Pediatric Dermatoses. Southeastern Consortium (Chapel Hill, NC).  October 2003.

·                       Morrell DS.  Panel Discussant, Society of Pediatric Dermatology Meeting (Seattle, WA).  Therapeutic Dilemmas.  June 20, 2003.

·                       Morrell DS.  Panel Discussant, Society of Pediatric Dermatology Meeting (Seattle, WA).  Cases in Search of a Diagnosis.  June 20, 2003.

·                       Morrell DS.  Life Threatening Pediatric Dermatoses.  American Academy of Dermatology Annual Meeting (San Francisco, CA).  March 2003.

·                       Haliosis E, Soder B, Morrell DS.  Sweet’s syndrome and primary immunodeficiency.  Society of Pediatric Dermatology Meeting (Annapolis, MD).  June 2002.

·                       Morrell DS, Ghali FE, Fine J-D.  Unilateral idiopathic localized hyperhidrosis.  Cases of the year.  Society of Pediatric Dermatology meeting (Thompsonville, MI).  July 1999.

 

 Publications

 

Books and Chapters

 

  • Dasher, D, Morrell DS.  Papulosquamous Disorder in Current Pediatric therapy, Eighteenth Edition, W.B. Saundes Co (manuscript submitted)
  • Morrell DS, May L. Infestations in Emergency Medicine, Sixth Edition, McGraw Hill, 2004, 1535-1536
  • Morrell DS, May L. Disorders of the Groin and Skin Folds in Emergency Medicine, Sixth Edition, McGraw Hill, 2004, 1532-1534
  • Morrell DS, May L. Disorders of the Hands, Feet, and Extremities in Emergency Medicine, Sixth Edition, McGraw Hill, 2004, 1526-1532
  • Morrell DS, May L. Disorders of the Face and Scalp in Emergency Medicine, Sixth Edition, McGraw Hill, 2004, 1520-1525.
  • Morrell DS, Rubenstein DS. Eczema and Other Common Dermatoses in Netter Textbook of Internal Medicine, First Edition, Icon Learning Systems, 2003 1002-1006.
  • Morrell DS, Fine J-D. Papulosquamous Disorders in Current Pediatric therapy, Seventeenth Edition, W.B. Saunders Co., 2002, 865-867.
  • Gable K, Lui G, Morrell DS. Pediatric exanthems.  Atlas of Office Procedures:  Dermatologic Manifestations of Systemic Diseases 2000; 3:547-561.
  • Gable K, Lui G, Morrell DS.  Pediatric exanthems.  Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice 2000; 27:353-369.

 

Original Research

 

  • Byer T, Morrell DS. Periumbilical nickel allergic contact dermatitis. Pediatric Dermatology 2004; 21:223-226.

 

 Other Peer Reviewed Articles

  • Wilkinson TM, Mizelle CB, Morrell DS.  Multiple skin-colored to red dermal papules with milia-like features.  Pediatric Dermatology 2004; 21:269-271.
  • Gilmore E, Friedman JS, Morrell DS.  Extensive fixed drug eruption secondary to vancomycin.  Pediatric Dermatology 2004; 21:600-602.
  • Hawfield W, Goodrich R, Warren S, Morrell DS.  Trauma-induced pigmentation secondary to tetracycline.  Pediatric Dermatology 2004; 21:164-165.
  • Caradonna S, Ogunrinde OA, Skidmore RA, Morrell DS. Cutaneous vasculitis and cystic fibrosis.  Submitted to Pediatric Dermatology 2003.
  • Haliosis E, Soder B, Rubenstein DS, Henderson W, Morrell DS.  Sweet’s syndrome and primary immunodeficiency:  Case report and review.  Pediatric Dermatology (in press).
  • Morrell DS, Nijhawan A, Challgren EC, Laumann A, Olsen J, Esterly NB.  Asymmetric childhood scleredema.  Pediatric Dermatology 2003; 20:350-355.
  • Morrell DS, Pepping M, Scott P, Esterly NB, Drolet BA.  Cutaneous manifestations of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis.  Archives of Dermatology 2002; 138:1208-1212.
  • Morrell DS, Challgren EC, Eapen M, Esterly NB.  Bullous acral erythema secondary to high dose methotrexate.  Journal of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology 2002; 24: 240.
  • Morrell DS, Esterly NB.  Clear cell hidradenoma.  Pediatric Dermatology 2001; 18:356-358.
  • Morrell DS, Ghali FE, Stahr BJ, McCauliffe DP.  Eccrine angiomatous hamartoma:  a report of symmetric and painful lesions of the extensor wrists.  Pediatric Dermatology 2001; 18: 117-119.

Letters

·                    Morrell DS, Rubenstein DS, Briggaman RA, C, Pulkkinnen, Uitto J, Fine J-D.  Congenital pyloric atresia in newborn with extensive aplasia cutis congenital and epidermolysis bullosa simplex.  British Journal of Dermatology 2000; 143:  1342-1343.

·                    Morrell DS, Fine J-D.  Junctional epidermolysis bullosa with pyloric atresia.  Pediatric Dermatology 2001; 18:  539-540.