Ellen Gendler

A Clinical Associate Professor of Dermatology at NYU Langone Medical Center, where she was a co-director of the Contact Dermatitis Division for many years, Dr. Gendler is also a fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology and a former trustee of the Dermatology Foundation. Additionally, she served as the director of the widely attended Cosmetics Symposium at the American Academy of Dermatology annual meeting for many years, lectures regularly at the American Society of Dermatologic Surgery, and teaches dermatology residents at NYU. Known by her colleagues for her creative lecturing style, she is also considered a master injector and trainer for virtually all of the filler and toxin companies, as well as one of the directors of the Scientiae Palette curriculum, teaching best injection practices to physicians and other medical professionals around the country.

After earning her B.A. from Wesleyan University, Dr. Gendler received her medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Following her internship in internal medicine, she completed her dermatology residency at New York University Medical Center Skin and Cancer Unit, completing additional training in Contact Dermatitis at St. John’s Hospital for Diseases of the Skin in London.

She and her husband, Dr. James Salik, a Clinical Professor of Gastroenterology at NYU Langone Medical Center, reside in New York City. They have two sons, one a cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and the other an intellectual property attorney at Kirkland and Ellis in New York City.