Dr. Boris D. Lushniak, MD | College Park, MD | Dermatologist | US News Doctors

Overview

Dr. Boris D. Lushniak is a dermatologist in College Park, Maryland. He received his medical degree from McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University and has been in practice for more than 20 years.

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Specialties

Specialty

Dermatology

Some of our top-rated dermatologists work at renowed practices including Advanced, Forefront, Epiphany and Pinnacle. Dermatologists diagnose and treat skin conditions. They also perform some cosmetic procedures, such as hair or tattoo removal, laser therapy, cosmetic filler injections, cryosurgery and phototherapy.

Subspecialties

General Dermatology

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Location & Contact Information

Doctor Address

4200 Valley Drive, Bldg 255, Room 2242N, College Park, MD, 20742

(301) 405-2438

Education & Experience

Medical School & Residency

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Residency, Public Health and General Preventive Medicine, 1989-1990

B.S., Medical Sciences (Honors Program in Medical Education), 1977-1981

McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University

Medical School

M.P.H., 1983-1984

Ascension Illinois/Saint Joseph (Chicago)

Residency, Family Medicine, 1984-1987

University of Cincinnati Medical Center/College of Medicine

Residency, Dermatology, 1990-1993

Certifications & Licensure

American Board of Preventive Medicine

Certified in Occupational Medicine

OH State Medical License

Active through 2018

MD State Medical License

Active through 2024

Awards, Honors & Recognitions

AAD Fellow

Federal Preventive Medicine Medical Officer Award, 2016

Distinguished Service Award for Service on the Board of Regents, 2016

Presidential Citation, 2015

Ron Davis Special Recognition Award, 2015

Special Laurel Award for Skin Cancer Prevention, 2015

Health Leader of the Year Award, 2015

Distinguished Service Medal, for service as Acting Surgeon General, 2015

Presidential Unit Citation, for service on the battle against Ebola, 2015

Honorary Degree, Doctor of Humane Letters (Honoris causa), 2014

Apollo Award for Skin Cancer Prevention, 2014

Distinguished Service Medal, for service as Assistant Commissioner FDA, 2014

Secretary’s Award for Meritorious Service for Surgeon General’s 50th Anniversary Report on Smoking and Health, 2014

Founders Medal, 2013

Colonel George W. Hunter III Award, 2013

Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, 2013

Group Recognition Award, FDA Emergency Operations Plan Work Group, 2011

Distinguished Speaker Award, 2011

Fisher Lecturer Award, 2010

Commissioner’s Special Citation, FDA Response to the 2009 H1N1, 2010

US Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation, for service at National Naval Medical Center, 2010

Surgeon General’s Medallion, for service as Deputy Surgeon General, 2010

Surgeon General’s Medallion, for service as Deputy Surgeon General, 2014

Commissioner’s Special Citation, Strategic National Stockpile Labeling Working Group, 2009

Award of Merit, 2009

Commissioner’s Special Citation, FDA Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Task Force, 2007

Outstanding Service Medal, Leading HHS response for evacuees in San Antonio, 2007

Outstanding Unit Citation, PHS response to Hurricane Katrina, 2007

Dr. William Beaumont Award in Medicine, For leadership in assisting Hurricane Katrina evacuees in San Antonio, 2006

Group Recognition Award, Emergency Use Authorization Guidance Team, 2006

FDA Commissioner’s Special Recognition Award, as a member of the Avian Influenza Lab, 2006

Secretary’s Award for Distinguished Service for service to the citizens devastated by the Gulf Region hurricanes, 2006

Surgeon General’s Exemplary Service Medal, for service as Co-Executive Director PHS Ensemble, 2006

Leadership Circle for Volunteerism, 2005

Sustaining Membership Lecture Award for Outstanding Contributions in the Field of Medical Research, 2005

Outstanding Service Medal, National research agenda on occupational skin disorders, 2005

Outstanding Unit Citation, CDC Monkeypox Response Team, 2005

Presidential Citation for dedication to the field of occupational dermatology, 2004

Secretary’s Award for Distinguished Service for extraordinary teamwork, productivity, and scientific excellence to control the spread of SARS and monkeypox, 2004

Cumming Award, awarded to The World Trade Center and Anthrax Response Team, 2003

Field Medical Readiness Badge, 2003

Outstanding Unit Citation, PHS response to anthrax and World Trade, 2002

Lauren A. Hatch Memorial Lectureship, 2001

Secretary’s Recognition Award for Heroism, Exceptional/ Volunteer Service for Work at the World Trade Center Site, 2001

Achievement Medal, establishing a bloodborne pathogen exposure control plan, 1999

Commendation Medal, needs assessments under wartime conditions in Kosovo, 1999

Award of Excellence, 1998

Achievement Medal, dedication to the field of occupational dermatology, 1998

PHS Citation, disaster planning in Bangladesh, 1989

Resident Teaching Award, 1987

John Thayer Scholarship Award, 1984

Paolo Raimondi Humanism in Medicine Award, 1983

Publications

How do you diagnose latex allergy?

Apter, A., Lushniak, B., Warshaw, E., Whitmore, S. E.

Availability of medical countermeasures for bioterrorism events: US legal and regulatory options.

Maher, C., Lushniak, B. D.

Epidemiology of epidemic diphtheria in three regions, Russia, 1994-1996.

Vitek, C. R., Brisgalov, S. P., Bragina, V. Y., Zhilyakov, A. M., Bisgard, K. M., Brennan, M., Kravtsova, O. N., Lushniak, B. D., Lyerla, R., Markina, S. S., Strebel, P. M.

Exposure and absorption of hazardous materials through the skin.

Boeniger, M. F., Lushniak, B. D.

Analysis of FDA's Vuse market authorisation: limitations and opportunities.

Andrew B Meshnick, Lauren Elizabeth Faricy, Boris D Lushniak

Why We Need User Fees for Electronic Nicotine Delivery System Products.

Brian F Yagi, Boris D Lushniak, Brian J Miller

National Institutes of Health Pathways to Prevention Workshop: Physical Activity and Health for Wheelchair Users

Jerry H. Gurwitz, Noelle E. Carlozzi, Kirsten K. Davison, Kelly R. Evenson, Darrell J. Gaskin, Boris D. Lushniak

Electronic nicotine delivery systems: the need for continued regulatory innovation.

Brian J. Miller, Andrew B Meshnick, Boris D. Lushniak

Preventive medicine's equivalence problem.

Paul Jung, Boris D. Lushniak

When Prevention Works, Nothing Happens.

Boris D. Lushniak

Credentialing and privileging the preventive medicine physician.

Paul Jung, Boris D. Lushniak

Do preventive medicine physicians practice medicine

Paul Jung, Boris D. Lushniak

Author Response to "Clinical Preventive Medicine: Causing More Identity Crisis for Preventive Medicine or Helping to Manage the Crisis".

Paul Jung, Boris D. Lushniak

Preventive Medicine's Identity Crisis.

Paul Jung, Boris D. Lushniak

Excellence in Medicine and the Case for Aspirational Ethics

Jonathan Kantor, Boris D. Lushniak

Commentary: Ethics in dermatology

Jonathan Kantor, Boris D. Lushniak

Utility of the Department of Defense Serum Repository in Assessing Deployment Exposure.

Boris D. Lushniak, Col Timothy M. Mallon, Joel C. Gaydos, David J. Smith

Reducing Indoor Tanning--An Opportunity for Melanoma Prevention.

Gery P. Guy, Meg Watson, Lisa C. Richardson, Boris D. Lushniak

Reducing Indoor Tanning – An Opportunity for Melanoma Prevention

Guy G, Watson M, Richardson LC, Lushniak BD

The Hope Multipliers: The U.S. Public Health Service in Monrovia:

Boris D. Lushniak

Update on the U.S. public health response to the Ebola outbreak.

Boris D. Lushniak

The National Prevention Strategy: Leveraging Multiple Sectors to Improve Population Health

Boris D. Lushniak, Dawn E. Alley, Brigette Ulin, Corinne Graffunder

Surgeon General's perspectives: family health history:using the past to improve future health

Boris D. Lushniak

The National Prevention Strategy: Leveraging Multiple Sectors to Improve Population Health

Lushniak BD, Alley DE, Ulin B, Graffunder C

CDC Grand Rounds: Prevention and Control of Skin Cancer

Watson M, Thomas CC, Massetti GM, McKenna S, Gershenwald JE, Laird S, Iskander J, Lushniak BD

Surgeon General’s Perspectives: Family Health History: Using the Past to Improve Future Health

Lushniak BD

The Hope Multipliers: The USPHS in Monrovia

Lushniak BD

Remarks from the acting Surgeon General of the United States to the 2014 summit on breastfeeding--as prepared for delivery.

Rear Admiral Boris D Lushniak

Surgeon general's perspectives.

Boris D Lushniak

Antibiotic resistance: a public health crisis.

Boris D. Lushniak

Testing Baby Boomers for Hepatitis C Virus Infection

Boris D. Lushniak

C. Everett Koop and the National HIV/AIDS Strategy

Boris D. Lushniak

The health consequences of smoking – 50 years of progress: a report of the Surgeon General.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Lushniak BD)

Surgeon General’s Perspectives: Helping Women Achieve Their Breastfeeding Goals: The Role of Hospitals

Lushniak BD

A historic moment: The 50th anniversary of the first Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health.

Boris D. Lushniak

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Lushniak BD, Thornton CR

The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent Skin Cancer.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Lushniak BD)

Surgeon General’s Perspectives: C Everett Koop and the National HIV/AIDS Strategy

Lushniak BD

Remarks from the Acting Surgeon General of the United States to the 2014 Summit on Breastfeeding

Lushniak BD

Surgeon General’s Perspectives: A Historic Moment: The 50th Anniversary of the First Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health

Lushniak BD

Surgeon General’s Perspectives: Antibiotic Resistance: A Public Health Crisis

Lushniak BD

Surgeon General’s Perspectives: Testing Baby Boomers for Hepatitis C Virus Infection

Lushniak BD

Surgeon General’s Perspectives: Quiet Heroes, Deafening Impacts

Lushniak BD

Holiday Season Stress Free

Boris D. Lushniak

Surgeon General’s Perspectives: Holiday Season Stress Free

Lushniak BD

Here comes the sun.

Boris D. Lushniak

Executive Perspective: Here Comes the Sun

Lushniak BD

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Lushniak BD

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Tapp, LC, Lushniak BD

Availability of medical countermeasures for bioterrorism evetns: US legal and regulatory options

Maher C, BD Lushniak

A case-control study of occupational contact dermatitis among automobile assembly workers

Sussell AL, Robins T, Garabrant D, Reeve G, Sout A, Lushniak B

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Lushniak BD

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Gerberick, G.F., BD Lushniak, R.J. Dearman and I. Kimber

Occupational contact dermatitis.

Boris D. Lushniak

Symptoms, Respirator Use, and Pulmonary Function Changes Among New York City Firefighters Responding to the World Trade Center Disaster*

Debra M. Feldman, Sherry Baron, Bruce Bernard, Boris D. Lushniak, Gisela I. Banauch, Nicole Arcentales, Kerry J. Kelly, David J. Prezant

Occupational Contact Dermatitis

Lushniak BD

Hazard evaluation and technical assistance report: Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation, Missoula, Montana.

Lushniak BD, Mattorano D

Biomonitoring of chemical exposure among New York City firefighters responding to the World Trade Center fire and collapse.

Philip Edelman, John D. Osterloh, James L. Pirkle, Sam Caudill, James Grainger, Robert L. Jones, Ben Blount, Antonia M. Calafat, Wayman E. Turner, Debra Feldman, Sherry Baron, Bruce Bernard, Boris D. Lushniak, Kerry Kelly, David J. Prezant

Barrier creams: fact or fiction.

Boris D. Lushniak, C. G.Toby Mathias, James S. Taylor

The importance of occupational skin diseases in the United States.

Boris D. Lushniak

Biomonitoring of chemical exposure among New York City firefighters responding to the World Trade Center fire and collapse

Edelman P, Osterloh J, Pirkle J, Caudill SP, Grainger J, Jones R, Blount B, Calafat A, Turner W, Feldman D, Baron S, Bernard B, Lushniak BD, Kelly K, Prezant D

The importance of occupational skin diseases in the United States

Lushniak BD

Barrier Creams: Fact or Fiction

Lushniak, BD, Mathias CGT, Taylor JS

Evaluation of self-reported skin problems among workers exposed to toluene diisocyanate (TDI) at a foam manufacturing facility.

Helga S Daftarian, Boris D. Lushniak, Christopher M. Reh, Daniel M. Lewis

Cutaneous anthrax management algorithm.

John A. Carucci, Thomas W. McGovern, Scott A. Norton, C. Ralph Daniel, Boni E. Elewski, Sheila Fallon-Friedlander, Boris D. Lushniak, James S. Taylor, Karen E. Warschaw, Ronald G. Wheeland

Rashes among schoolchildren – 14 States, October 4, 2001–February 27, 2002

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Reported by listing includes Lushniak B)

Use of respiratory protection among responders at the World Trade Center site – New York City, September 2001

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Reported by listing includes Lushniak B)

Inhalational anthrax outbreak among postal workers, Washington, DC, 2001

Dewan PK, Fry AM, Laserson K, Tierney BC, Quinn CP, Hayslett JA, et al and members of the Washington, D.C. Anthrax Response Team (including Lushniak B)

Evaluation of Self-Reported Skin Problems among Workers Exposed to Toluene Diisocyanate (TDI) at a Foam Manufacturing Plant

Daftarian HS, Lushniak BD, Reh CM, Lewis DM

Occupational Dermatitis Causing Days Away From Work in US Private Industry

Lushniak BD

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Updated U.S. Public Health Service Guidelines for the Management of Occupational Exposures to HBV, HCV, and HIV and Recommendations for Postexposure Prophylaxis.

Beltrami EM, Alvarado-Ramy F, Critchley SE, Panlilio AL, Cardo DM, Bower WA, Alter MJ, Kaplan JE, Lushniak BD

OCCUPATIONAL SKIN DISEASES

Boris D. Lushniak

Hazards of ethyl methacrylate.

Cheryl Fairfield Estill, James H. Jones, Boris D. Lushniak, Jane B. McCammon

Occupational Skin Diseases

Lushniak BD

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Lushniak BD

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Lushniak BD

Exposure and absorption of hazardous materials through the skin

Boeniger MF, Lushniak BD

Epidemiology of epidemic diphtheria in three regions, Russia, 1994-1996

Vitek CR, Brisgalov SP, Bragina VY, Zhilyakov AM, Bisgard KM, Brennan M, Kravtsova ON, Lushniak BD, Lyerla R, Markina SS, Strebel PM

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Lushniak BD, Mathias CGT

Occupational dermatitis causing days away from work in U.S. private industry, 1993

Carol A. Burnett, Boris D. Lushniak, William McCarthy, Joel D. Kaufman

Indirect assessment of 4,4'-diphenylmethane diisocyanate (MDI) exposure by evaluation of specific humoral immune responses to MDI conjugated to human serum albumin.

Boris D. Lushniak, Christopher M. Reh, David I. Bernstein, J.S. Gallagher

Indirect assessment of MDI exposure by evaluation of specific humoral immune responses to MDI conjugated to HSA

Lushniak BD, Reh CM, Bernstein DI, Gallagher JS

NIOSH Criteria for a Recommended Standard--Occupational Exposure to Metalworking Fluids [Chapter on dermatologic effects].

Lushniak BD

Occupational dermatitis causing days away from work in US private industry

Burnett CA, Lushniak BD, McCarthy W, Kaufman J

The public health impact of irritant contact dermatitis

Lushniak BD

Dermatitis at a Construction Site. Hazard evaluation and technical assistance report: S & B Engineers and Constructors, Ltd. Sweeny, Texas.

Keifer M, Lushniak BD

National Occupational Research Agenda - Update July, 1997 (section on Allergic and Irritant Dermatitis Team activities).

Lushniak BD

NIOSH Alert: Preventing allergic reactions to natural rubber latex in the workplace.

Biagini RE, Deitchman S, EJ Esswein, Fedan J, Flesch JP, Hodgins PK, Hodous TK, Hull RD, Jarvis WR, Lewis DM, Lipscomb JA, Lushniak BD, Pearson ML, Petsonk EL, Pinkerton L, Siegal PD, Wippel WG, Worthington KA

Dermatitis in a Rubber Product Plant. Hazard evaluation and technical assistance report: BTR Antivibration Systems, Inc.

Lushniak BD, Reh BD

National Occupational Research Agenda. (section on Allergic and Irritant Dermatitis).

Lushniak BD

The epidemiology of occupational contact dermatitis.

Boris D. Lushniak

Epidemiology of occupational contact dermatitis

Lushniak BD

Dermatitis in an Automotive Parts Company. Hazard evaluation and technical assistance report: Diamet Corporation.

Kinnes GM, Martinez KF, Lushniak BD

Indoor Environmental Quality in a Hospital. Hazard evaluation and technical assistance report: St. Vincent Medical Center.

Keifer M, Lushniak BD

NIOSH and the dermatologist

Lushniak BD

Dermatitis in a Library. Hazard evaluation and technical assistance report: University of Iowa.

Lushniak BD, Decker JA

Indoor Environmental Quality in a Prison. Hazard evaluation and technical assistance report: Dauphin County Prison.

Lushniak BD, Mattorano D

Renal cell cancer among paperboard printing workers.

Thomas Sinks, Boris Lushniak, B J Haussler, Joseph Sniezek, Jou-Fang Deng, Paul Roper, Patricia Dill, Ralph J. Coates

Renal Cancer in a Paperboard Plant. Hazard evaluation and technical assistance report: James River Corp.

Sinks T, Lushniak BD, Hausser BJ, et al

Exposures to corrosion-inhibiting chemicals from a steam humidification system - Ohio, 1988

Hills B, Lushniak BD, Sinks T

Cancer in an Electric Equipment Plant. Hazard evaluation and technical assistance report: Thomson Consumer Electronics, Inc.

Kinnes G, Lushniak BD

Isocyanate Asthma Related to Foam Spraying. Hazard evaluation and technical assistance report: Trailmobile, Inc.

Reh C, Lushniak BD

Workplace exposures to the corrosion-inhibiting chemicals from a steam humidification system

Hills B, Lushniak BD, Sinks T

Mucosal and Skin Irritation in an Electronics Plant. Hazard evaluation and technical assistance report: Bussman-Cooper Industries.

Sussell A, Lushniak BD

Dermatitis in Bowling Establishments. Hazard evaluation and technical assistance report: Beacon Bowl.

Lushniak BD, Seitz T

Indoor Environmental Quality in an Office Building. Hazard evaluation and technical assistance report: Office of Disability Determination.

Roper P, Lushniak BD

Irritation from Steam Humidification Additives. Hazard evaluation report: Cincinnati Electronics Corporation.

Hills B, Lushniak BD, Sinks T

Plenary

Public Health and Dermatology—From Policy to Pox

Dermatology and Public Health

Dermatology Conundrums from the Annals of the CDC

Life as a (Dermatologist) Surgeon General

Health of the Nation: A Preventive Focus

Surgeon General’s Panel on Organ Donation

The Fight Against Big Tobacco – 52 Years of Progress

Ebola Response and the Monrovia Medical Unit

Public Health and Politics

Public Health in Complex Emergencies

The Shift to Prevention and Wellness

Risk Communication –Talking Heads

The Monrovia Medical Unit – Ebola Response

Immunizations and the Public Health Model

Medical and Clinical Psychology Seminar

Travel Medicine Course

Inclusion and Wellness

Fluoride and Health

Public Health and Dermatology

Going into the Future: Health and Wellness

Skin Cancer Prevention

Ebola Response and the US Public Health Service

The Future of Public Health and Prevention

The US Surgeon General—Fighting Tobacco for 50 Years

Protocol Development Workshop

Adult Immunizations.

Worker Wellness

Leadership Skills

The US Public Health Service and Health Policy

Solving Obesity: Everyone's Issue, Cross-sector Work on Obesity Prevention, Treatment, and Weight Maintenance: Models for Change

Design, Planning, and Health

Leadership and Health

Climate Change and Health

Suicide Prevention and Treatment

Active Living-National Prevention Strategy

Medication Adherence

Underage Drinking

Healthy Eating – National Prevention Strategy

Asbestos and The National Prevention Strategy

Breastfeeding and Health

The Public Health Model and Prevention – A PHS Officer’s View

Tobacco and Health

Tropical Dermatology

Health Futures

The National Prevention Strategy and Health

The National Prevention Strategy

Leadership and Volunteerism

Innovations in Health and Prevention

I'm from the Government and I'm here to…

When Leadership Goes Askew

Leadership in the USPHS - What Does It Take?

Pediatric Medical Countermeasures

Occupational and Environmental Health in the Public Health Model

Leadership and Succession Planning

Occupational Skin Diseases

Anthrax Epidemic in Russia- The Sverdlovsk Incident

Role of Ukrainian Scouting in my Career Path

Mass Antibiotic Dispensing: Legal Ease

Bullous Diseases

Role of Preparedness in a Public Health School Curriculum

H1N1 Pandemic

FDA Role in PHEMCE; Regulatory Issues for Public Health Emergency Countermeasures

Skin Manifestations of Agents of Bioterrorism

Topical Agents

Pandemic Influenza Preparedness

Creativity and Innovation in Leadership

Patch Testing

The FDA Role in Counterterrorism

Water and Sanitation in Refugee Settings

Update on Occupational Medicine

A Rash Overview of Occupational and Environmental Skin Diseases

BioShield Implementation--The FDA Role

The Burden of Occupational Skin Diseases in the US

The Role of Dermatologists in Emergencies

Occupational Health Issues at the World Trade Center Disaster Site

The Epidemiology of Occupational Skin Diseases

Shelter and Site Planning in Refugee Settings

Anthrax

A Rash Overview of Occupational Skin Disorders

The NIOSH Health Hazard Evaluation Program

NIOSH Activities at the World Trade Center Disaster Site

Occupational Asthma

The Importance of Occupational Skin Diseases in the US

The National Occupational Research Agenda–Allergic and Irritant Dermatitis Team

Latex Hypersensitivities

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