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Ilona J. Frieden, M.D.

Director of Pediatric Dermatology

Dr. Ilona Frieden, director of Pediatric Dermatology at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, is a world-renowned specialist in children's skin diseases. She has more than 30 years experience in treating conditions including birthmarks and hemangiomas, laser surgery of port-wine stains and in caring for children with common conditions such as eczema and rashes. She is founder and director of the UCSF Birthmarks and Vascular Anomalies Clinic founded in 1991 and treats patients in the Ectodermal Dysplasia Clinic of the Craniofacial Anomalies Center.

Frieden is a clinical professor of dermatology and pediatrics and the founder of the Hemangioma Investigator Group, a multi-center collaboration for the study of hemangiomas. She is the editor in chief of the journal Pediatric Dermatology. She is also a member of the board of the American Academy of Dermatology.

Clinics

Birthmarks and Vascular Anomalies Center
1701 Divisadero St., Third Floor
San Francisco, CA 94115
Phone: (415) 353-7800

Center for Craniofacial Anomalies
513 Parnassus Avenue, S-747
San Francisco, CA 94143-0570
Phone: (415) 476-2271

Dermatology
1701 Divisadero St., Third Floor
San Francisco, CA 94143-0316
Phone: (415) 353-7800

Conditions & Treatments

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Additional Languages

Spanish

Education

UCSF School of Medicine 1977

Residencies

UCSF Medical Center, Pediatrics 1980

Fellowships

UCSF Medical Center, Dermatology 1983

Selected Research and Publications

  1. Marqueling AL, Oza V, Frieden IJ, Puttgen KB. Propranolol and infantile hemangiomas four years later: a systematic review. Pediatr Dermatol. 2013 Mar; 30(2):182-91.
  2. Martin K, Bleib F, Chamlin SL, Chiu YE, Frieden IJ, Frommelt PC, Garzon MC, Kwon EK, Maclellan-Tobert S, Mancini AJ, Seefeldt M, Sidbury R, Siegel DH, Drolet BA, Boucek RJ. Propranolol treatment of infantile hemangiomas: anticipatory guidance for parents and caretakers. Pediatr Dermatol. 2013 Jan; 30(1):155-9.
  3. Drolet BA, Frommelt PC, Chamlin SL, Haggstrom A, Bauman NM, Chiu YE, Chun RH, Garzon MC, Holland KE, Liberman L, Maclellan-Tobert S, Mancini AJ, Metry D, Puttgen KB, Seefeldt M, Sidbury R, Ward KM, Blei F, Baselga E, Cassidy L, Darrow DH, Joachim S, Kwon EK, Martin K, Perkins J, Siegel DH, Boucek RJ, Frieden IJ. Initiation and use of propranolol for infantile hemangioma: report of a consensus conference. Pediatrics. 2013 Jan; 131(1):128-40.
  4. Kim CC, Kim EJ, Curiel-Lewandrowski C, Marks V, Maloney M, Frieden IJ. A model in dermatology for long-distance mentoring. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2013 May; 68(5):860-2.
  5. Slavotinek AM, Mehrotra P, Nazarenko I, Tang PL, Lao R, Cameron D, Li B, Chu C, Chou C, Marqueling AL, Yahyavi M, Cordoro K, Frieden I, Glaser T, Prescott T, Morren MA, Devriendt K, Kwok PY, Petkovich M, Desnick RJ. Focal facial dermal dysplasia, type IV, is caused by mutations in CYP26C1. Hum Mol Genet. 2013 Feb 15; 22(4):696-703.
  6. Sullivan CT, Christian SL, Shieh JT, Metry D, Blei F, Krol A, Drolet BA, Frieden IJ, Dobyns WB, Siegel DH. X Chromosome-Inactivation Patterns in 31 Individuals with PHACE Syndrome. Mol Syndromol. 2013 Mar; 4(3):114-8.
  7. Siegel DH, Shieh JT, Kwon EK, Baselga E, Blei F, Cordisco M, Dobyns WB, Duffy KJ, Garzon MC, Gibbs DL, Grimmer JF, Hayflick SJ, Krol AL, Kwok PY, Lorier R, Matter A, McWeeney S, Metry D, Mitchell S, Pope E, Santoro JL, Stevenson DA, Bayrak-Toydemir P, Wilmot B, Worthey EA, Frieden IJ, Drolet BA, Broeckel U. Copy Number Variation Analysis in 98 Individuals with PHACE Syndrome. J Invest Dermatol. 2013 Mar; 133(3):677-84.
  8. Metry D, Frieden IJ, Hess C, Siegel D, Maheshwari M, Baselga E, Chamlin S, Garzon M, Mancini AJ, Powell J, Drolet BA. Propranolol Use in PHACE Syndrome with Cervical and Intracranial Arterial Anomalies: Collective Experience in 32 Infants. Pediatr Dermatol. 2013 Jan; 30(1):71-89.
  9. Durr ML, Meyer AK, Huoh KC, Frieden IJ, Rosbe KW. Airway hemangiomas in PHACE syndrome. Laryngoscope. 2012 Oct; 122(10):2323-9.
  10. Tollefson MM, Frieden IJ. Early growth of infantile hemangiomas: what parents' photographs tell us. Pediatrics. 2012 Aug; 130(2):e314-20.
  11. Tangtiphaiboontana J, Hess CP, Bayer M, Drolet BA, Nassif LM, Metry DW, Barkovich AJ, Frieden IJ, Fullerton HJ. Neurodevelopmental Abnormalities in Children With PHACE Syndrome. J Child Neurol. 2013 May; 28(5):608-14.
  12. Mitchell S, Siegel DH, Shieh JT, Stevenson DA, Grimmer JF, Lewis T, Metry D, Frieden I, Blei F, Kayserili H, Drolet BA, Bayrak-Toydemir P. Candidate locus analysis for PHACE syndrome. Am J Med Genet A. 2012 Jun; 158A(6):1363-7.
  13. Siegel DH, Tefft KA, Kelly T, Johnson C, Metry D, Burrows P, Pope E, Cordisco M, Holland KE, Maheshwari M, Keith P, Garzon M, Hess C, Frieden IJ, Fullerton HJ, Drolet BA. Stroke in children with posterior fossa brain malformations, hemangiomas, arterial anomalies, coarctation of the aorta and cardiac defects, and eye abnormalities (PHACE) syndrome: a systematic review of the literature. Stroke. 2012 Jun; 43(6):1672-4.
  14. Javvaji S, Frieden IJ. Response of tufted angiomas to low-dose aspirin. Pediatr Dermatol. 2013 Jan; 30(1):124-7.
  15. Mullen M, Rabban J, Frieden IJ. Sacrococcygeal teratoma masquerading as congenital hemangioma. Pediatr Dermatol. 2013 Jan; 30(1):112-6.
  16. Glick ZR, Frieden IJ, Garzon MC, Mully TW, Drolet BA. Diffuse neonatal hemangiomatosis: An evidence-based review of case reports in the literature. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2012 Nov; 67(5):898-903.
  17. Haggstrom AN, Beaumont JL, Lai JS, Adams DM, Drolet BA, Frieden IJ, Garzon MC, Holland KE, Horii KA, Lucky AW, Mancini AJ, Metry DW, Morel KD, Newell BD, Nopper AJ, Siegel D, Swigonski NL, Cella D, Chamlin SL. Measuring the severity of infantile hemangiomas: instrument development and reliability. Arch Dermatol. 2012 Feb; 148(2):197-202.
  18. Drolet BA, Pope E, Juern AM, Sato T, Howell B, Puttgen KB, Lara-Corrales I, Gilliam A, Mancini A, Powell J, Siegel D, Metry D, Stevenson DA, Grimmer JF, Frieden IJ. Gastrointestinal bleeding in infantile hemangioma: a complication of segmental, rather than multifocal, infantile hemangiomas. J Pediatr. 2012 Jun; 160(6):1021-6.e3.
  19. Maguiness SM, Frieden IJ. Management of difficult infantile haemangiomas. Arch Dis Child. 2012 Mar; 97(3):266-71.
  20. McMahon P, Oza V, Frieden IJ. Topical timolol for infantile hemangiomas: putting a note of caution in "cautiously optimistic". Pediatr Dermatol. 2012 Jan-Feb; 29(1):127-30.

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