Staff

Our Staff


	Reception Our receptionists, Julie, Christine and Tammy, are the first people you will encounter. They will schedule your appointments, register your materials and mail you a questionnaire and brochure. They will try to address any problems that may occur.
	Administration and billing As a subunit of University Dermatology Inc., we share the billing office and general administration. We are glad to assist you or direct you to the appropriate person in administration as needed.
	Nursing staff Joann, Joanne, Elaine and Tracy assist directly in your care. These caring nurses have decades of combined experience in Mohs surgery. They assist in the consultations, evaluation, education and as surgical assistants.
	Technicians Our unit employs two full time Mohs technicians who process tissues on slides in our state-of-the-art lab, which is inspected annually by state and federal organizations (CLIA).
	Residents and medical students Medical students have a mostly observational role in the unit. Both our residents and fellows are specifically involved with the evaluations and surgery. This is part of our mission as a teaching program. However, the attending physician is involved in all key aspects of your care.
	Physician: Raymond Dufresne, Jr., MD Raymond Dufresne, Jr., MD graduated from Providence College, summa cum laude. He completed medical school and residencies in internal medicine and dermatology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, as well as a Mohs and dermatologic surgery fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic. Dufresne is board certified in internal medicine and dermatology and has been an elected fellow in the American College of Mohs Micrographic Surgery. He is the director of the Mohs and Dermatological Surgery division at Rhode Island Hospital and is a professor in the department of dermatology at Brown Medical School. Dufresne has performed thousands of Mohs procedures over the last 20 years. His practice focuses exclusively on Mohs surgery.
	Physician: Nathaniel Jellinek, MD Nathaniel Jellinek, MD graduated from Brown University. He completed medical school at the University of Massachusetts and an internal medicine internship at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, MA. He completed a residency in dermatology, a fellowship in Mohs micrographic surgery, dermatologic surgery, and cutaneous oncology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is an assistant professor in the department of dermatology at Brown Medical School and co-director of the unit. Jellinek has an interest in nail diseases and nail surgery. His practice focuses on cutaneous oncology, Mohs surgery, and nail disease. He is an associate editor for the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.
	Physician: Robert Willard, MD Robert Willard, MD graduated from La Salle University, magna cum laude. He received a masters in biological chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, PA and complited an internal medicine internship at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC. He was also a resident in dermatology at the National Capital Consortium (Walter Reed Army Medical Center and National Naval Medical Center) in Washington, DC and Bethesda, MD. Following his residency, Willard spent two years in Kentucky in practice with the military to became an expert on leishmaniasis. He then spent an additional year in private practice in Tennessee and Kentucky. He is currently a teaching fellow in Mohs micrographic surgery at Brown University.

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