GERRY GELLIN, M.D., Class of 1958

My main interests have been my family and dermatology. I am still in solo practice in San Francisco.

After training in Internal Medicine in Los Angeles and in Dermatology at NYU and its Skin and Cancer Clinic, I served as Chief of Dermatology at the Brooklyn VA Hospital. The Vietnam War led to my move to Cincinnati to enter the U.S. Public Health Service as an Occupational Dermatologist. I had a concurrent position in the Department of Dermatology at the University of Cincinnati. In l969 we moved to San Francisco, where I became Chief of Dermatology at the San Francisco General Hospital.

Later, I was Chief of  Dermatology at the Children's Hospital of San Francisco, later named the California Pacific Medical Center. I remain a Clinical Professor of Dermatology at the University of California, San Francisco. On June 1,2008 Lucille and I will be married 50 years. Our daughter, Erica, is a Ph.D. in Biochemistry at the University of Washington in Seattle. She provided us with two grandchildren-Alex, 14 and Camille, 10. Our son Gary is a mechanical engineer in nearby Menlo Park.

I don't play golf, tennis nor do I ski. My only athletic skill is in pocket billiards, which, regrettably, I play infrequently.

Lucille believes we moved to San Francisco to be close to my boyhood hero, Joe Dimaggio. I actually met him. It was a thrill for us to meet. As the song states, "Where Have You Gone, Joe Dimaggio?"