Peter Pugliese

Peter T. Pugliese, MD, born in Reading, Pennsylvania in 1926, has spent the better part of his 82 years in research, and has spent the last twenty five years specializing in aging mechanisms of human skin. His biomedical career has spanned almost sixty years.
Professional life
A practicing physician from 1957 to 1978, Dr. Pugliese was a general practitioner, a family doctor, in rural Pennsylvania. He also contributed to the broader medical community, participating in the early efforts in limb reattachment in the US, taught at Hershey Medical School, patented dairy hygiene products, and established a methadone clinic for heroin addicts within the prison system of Berks County.
By the late 1970s, Dr. Pugliese’s distaste for the advent of “managed health care” led him to close his clinical practice, and begin an intensive study of skin physiology. Various discoveries of cell structure and function led him to design non-invasive evaluation techniques to quantify biological activity of cosmetics. His laboratory work resulted in a second career as an authority on the use of functional topicals (skin care products) to treat various non-pathological skin conditions. He holds several patents, has published hundreds of articles and has lectured on every continent. He was awarded the Maison De Navarre Award for his contributions to cosmetic science.
Dr. Pugliese contributed to the education of professional skin care practitioners in the growing field of esthetics in the US. His book series, Physiology of the Skin, (Allured Publishing) is a standard esthetic student reference. In 2005 his new textbook, Advanced Professional Skin Care, Medical Edition, replaced other teaching materials and has grown in use. By 2010, Dr. Pugliese’s textbook will be the global standard for licensing through the international licensing organization, CIDESCO.
Personal life
Dr. Pugliese received his BS from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA and his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He and his wife, Joanne, have been married since 1949 and reside in Bernville, PA. They have four children and seven grandchildren.

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