About Brian Poligone, MD

Dr. Poligone has more than a decade of experience caring for patients with skin lymphoma and other dermatologic disease. In 2015 he left his tenure track at the University of Rochester in order to found the Rochester Skin Lymphoma Medical Group (RSLMG). This specialty center provides experienced care for patients with skin lymphoma, with the most advanced therapies available at the center. Dr. Poligone has a laboratory at the Rochester General Hospital Research Institute, where he studies the underlying mechanism of skin cancers. His team at the RSLMG is focused on providing cutting edge diagnostic and treatment options for patients in a setting that is compassionate and patient focused. Dr. Poligone trained at Yale University with Peter Heald, MD, one of the worlds leaders in the field of cutaneous lymphoma. He performed a post-doctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Sankar Ghosh, Ph.D. in the Department of Immunobiology at Yale. Dr. Poligone completed his internship in Internal Medicine at Stanford University and his MD and PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Poligone has also performed research at the Max Planck Institute in Munich, Germany and the Brain Research Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. He has been invited to speak at more than 100 meetings on both his scientific studies and clinical knowledge in the field of lymphoma and skin cancer. He has been recently funded by the NIH and has been on many NIH review committees. He remains a dedicated academic trying to both provide the highest care and improve the care for future patients through research. Dr. Poligone is married with three young children, who attend Fairport public school. One of his interests is in travelling to experience new cultures, especially in order to discover new foods or fruits. However his ideal weekend includes playing pick-up basketball with friends, running in the yard with the kids, and baking pizza in the brick oven stove in the backyard.