New Chairs Named for Dermatology, Radiation Oncology

Pamela S. Allen, M.D.

The OU College of Medicine has named two new chairs — Pamela S. Allen, M.D., as chair of the Department of Dermatology and Jerry Jaboin, M.D., Ph.D., MBA, as chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology.

Allen, who holds the Carl J. Herzog Chair in Dermatology and the faculty rank of associate professor, earned her medical degree from Loma Linda University School of Medicine in Loma Linda, California. She completed her internal medicine residency at Charles R. Drew University/King-Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles, then her dermatology residency with the OU College of Medicine.

She has spent her entire medical career with the Department of Dermatology in the OU College of Medicine. She has maintained a busy clinical practice at OU Health Physicians Dermatology and its satellite clinics; at the Devon Outpatient Clinic in downtown Oklahoma City; and, previously, providing tele-dermatology for the Oklahoma Department of Corrections.

Her administrative positions have included serving as Director of the Dermatology Residency Program; Section Chief for Dermatology at the Oklahoma City VA Medical Center; Cosmetic Director for the Department of Dermatology; Director of the Medical Student Clerkship in Dermatology; Vice Chair and Interim Chair of the Department of Dermatology; and Medical Director of the OU Health Physicians Dermatology Clinic.

Allen is the founder and director of the Mark Allen Everett, M.D. Skin of Color Symposium, which educates physicians, advanced practice providers, medical students and residents/fellows about the unique features of skin of color, as well as cultural diversity.

Allen has published many dermatologic articles and has served as principal site investigator on multiple clinical trials related to psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, basal cell carcinoma, melanoma, and ethic skin. She has given numerous presentations to church, school, community and medical organizations on local and national levels.

She has been active as an educator, mentor and advisor for medical students, residents and faculty. She has also served as advisor for the Dermatology Interest Group for medical students, guiding them as they organized the annual campus-wide Melanoma Screening Fair. In addition, she supervises medical students and residents treating uninsured patients at Good Shepherd Clinic.

Allen is a member of numerous committees and organizations, including the OU College of Medicine Diversity Alliance Task Force; the college’s Admissions Interview Subcommittee; the Graduate Medical Education Committee at the OU Health Sciences Center; OU Health CEO Search Committee; OU Health Physicians Council; the Oklahoma State Medical Association; and the Skin of Color Society. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology.

Jerry Jaboin, M.D., Ph.D., MBA

Jaboin comes to the OU College of Medicine from Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, where he served as Associate Professor and Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Radiation Medicine.

Jaboin earned his medical degree and a doctorate in genetics from Howard University and the National Cancer Institute in Washington, D.C. He completed the preliminary medicine intern year of his residency at Franklin Square Hospital Center in Baltimore, Maryland, followed by his residency in radiation oncology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

Following his training, Jaboin served as a clinical staff physician at Mercy Medical Center in Springfield, Missouri, and medical director of the Mercy Clinic Radiation Oncology — Chub O’Reilly Cancer Center. In addition, while with the Department of Radiation Oncology at Washington University in St. Louis, he proposed and helped to develop the Mercy Neuro-Oncology Multidisciplinary Clinic, and initiated and chartered the Mercy Springfield Strategic Oncology Team.

Jaboin next served as the Executive Vice Chairman for the Department of Radiation Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland. Among his many accomplishments, he re-established the brachytherapy program, established the palliative radiation oncology program, and created a quality and safety program.

An active educator and mentor for scientists and trainees, he has regularly lectured on radiation therapy topics and mentored medical students, residents and doctoral students. Throughout his career, Jaboin has encouraged and supported diversity, equity and inclusion.

As a researcher, he has actively participated in translational and clinical projects to move bench discoveries to the bedside. He has served as principal investigator and co-principal investigator on numerous clinical trials related to the detection and treatment of cancer, pain control and quality of life, and other areas, and he has been an author on more than 100 journal articles and contributed several chapters for radiation oncology books. In addition, he has served as an editorial board member and associate editor of several journals.

Jaboin is a member of numerous national and international professional organizations, including the Radiological Society of North America, Society of Neuro-Oncology, American Association of Cancer Research, and many others. He is a diplomat of the American Board of Radiology.