To Whom It May Concern,
I would like to give my highest recommendation for Ricky Roberson. As a previous faculty member in the UNC School of Medicine’s Department of Dermatology,
I started and directed the pigmented lesion clinic as part of the Lineberger Cancer Center’s Multidisciplinary Melanoma
Clinic. The strength of this clinic is the ability to follow high-risk melanoma
patients with digital image surveillance. This tool would not have been possible without the hard work and input of Mr. Roberson.
In 1997, the Medical Illustrations Department at the UNC School
of Medicine united with the Multidisciplinary Melanoma Clinic to provide quality images to a large number of patients at a
reasonable cost. Mr. Roberson was instrumental in this process. He spent days with me creating digital images of a model patient
maximizing both resolution and body surface area. We could not have created such a complete and useful set of digital images
without Mr. Roberson and his 30 years of medical photography experience.
Mr. Roberson’s patient interactions were also commendable. He was able to make even the most self-conscious patient comfortable. The feedback I received from patients was always positive despite the inherent discomfort of total body
photographs. He managed to preserve patient’s modesty throughout the photography
process.
On a personal note, Mr. Roberson has been a delight with which
to work. He is friendly, cheerful, patient and calm. All of these traits I consider most admirable in a colleague.
Mr. Roberson was not merely a photographer trained to take such
images but truly helped create a system of digital imaging still used by the Department of Dermatology and the Multidisciplinary
Melanoma Clinic at UNC. A system that I do not feel is surpassed by any other
system in the country at this time—not only in quality and ease of use, but also in price. I look forward to Mr. Roberson’s
private venture as I now practice in Asheville and have numerous patients who would benefit from a set of total body images
but who will not travel several hours to have such images taken. I am anxiously
awaiting his first trip to Asheville!
Sincerely,
Lisa May, M.D.
Clinical Adjunct Assistant Professor of Dermatology
UNC School of Medicine
