Nancy E Thomas MD

Dr. Thomas is the Irene and Robert Alan Briggaman Distinguished Professor in the Department of Dermatology at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. At UNC, she is the Director of the Pigmented Lesion Clinics, Director of the Dermatology Skin Cancer Unit, and Co-director of the Multidisciplinary Skin Cancer and Melanoma Program. She is a physician scientist who conducts research into the molecular epidemiology of melanoma. She is an is one of the principle investigators of the population-based Genes, Environment and Melanoma Study, which enrolled over 3,000 patients from 9 international sites and has published on risk factors, tumor characteristics, and outcomes from melanoma.