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Dr. Guenther is a Professor and Chair of the Division of Dermatology at The University of Western Ontario in London Ontario Canada, fellow of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and Board-certified in the United States. She received her MD from The University of Western Ontario and completed her Dermatology residency training at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Michigan, U.S.A. She has been involved in more than 100 research projects since 1980 and is the medical director of The Guenther Dermatology Research Centre in London, Ontario, Canada. She was the President of the Canadian Society for Dermatologic Surgery from 2001-3 and in 2004 chaired the Canadian Expert panel for the treatment of moderate-to-severe psoriasis. Dr. Guenther has more than 200 publications, is a reviewer for a number of journals and has been the medical editor of Dermatology Times of Canada since 1998. She has acted as an advisor to Health Canada, the Drug Quality and Therapeutics Committee for Ontario, the Canadian Medical Protective Association, the Canadian Cancer Society and many pharmaceutical companies.Dr.Guenther enjoys teaching, lectures locally, provincially, nationally and internationally, and won a certificate of appreciation for excellence in undergraduate medical education. In 2007, she was voted “Best Doctor” by peers. Since 1998, she has developed and organized a yearly Sun Awareness program that medical students, initially from the University of Western Ontario, and now from all the Ontario medical schools, deliver to grade 4 students across the province.