Gerald Goldberg, MD, suffered with acne as an adolescent. The resulting scars he carried as an adult piqued his interest in working with children with port wine stains and other disfiguring birth marks—and became the foundation for his future career in medicine. “Because of my own scars, I am sensitive to people with scarring and other malformations, so I was attracted to the area of port wine stains in babies and children,” he says. “I did my first vascular cases on port wine stains, which was one of the first areas where we were using lasers, so I got into laser medicine early in my career, and that’s been my niche since 1984.”
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