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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
- Department of Dermatology.
- Department of Medicine; and The Methodist Hospital.
- Department of Dermatology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
- Department of Dermatology; and The Methodist Hospital.