Born in 1920 in
Minneapolis, Lerner received his medical degree and a PhD in chemistry from the
University of Minnesota in 1945. After teaching at the universities of Michigan and Oregon, he joined the
Yale University School of Medicine as an associate professor of medicine in 1955. The following year he became director of the
dermatology section within the Department of
Internal Medicine, and when the Department of Dermatology was established in 1971 he was appointed its first chair. When Professor Lerner retired in 1991, he was named a Professor Emeritus of Dermatology. == References ==