Amanda Twigg, MD
Associate Professor
Dermatology
School of Medicine

Dr. Twigg divides her time between UCSF and the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Health Care System where she serves as the Chief of Dermatology. At SFVA she attends a complex medical dermatology clinic, surgery clinic, and provides teledermatology services.

In addition, Dr. Twigg enjoys clinical teaching and mentoring students and residents. She was inducted into the UCSF Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators in 2021 and named the Endowed Chair in Dermatology Medical Student Education in 2025.

• Patient photographs taken without instructions are of sufficient quality for clinical decision-making in teledermatology.
  Dermatology online journal 2024 Liu JY, Lohman ME, Klufas D, Fassett M, Amerson E, Twigg A, Leslie K, Khodosh R
• Direct-to-Patient Mobile Teledermoscopy: Prospective Observational Study.
  JMIR dermatology 2024 Fan W, Mattson G, Twigg A
• Assessment and quality improvement of the Community Care Network: Veterans Administration (VA) patient access to community Mohs micrographic surgery.
  Dermatology online journal 2023 Chattopadhyay A, Saylor D, Twigg A
• Limited impact of teledermoscopy on referrals to face-to-face dermatology.
  Dermatology online journal 2022 Montejano RD, Oh DH, Twigg AR
• The Utilization and Impact of Live Interactive and Store-and-Forward Teledermatology in a Veterans Affairs Medical Center During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
  Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association 2021 Castillo F, Peracca S, Oh DH, Twigg AR
• Ingenol mebutate 0·015% gel is safe for short-term treatment of actinic keratoses on the face in solid organ transplant recipients.
  The British journal of dermatology 2020 Crow LD, Yuan JT, Aroyan CS, Twigg AR, Singer JP, Roll GR, Lazar AA, Arron ST
• Treatment of PD-1/PD-L1 Inhibitor-Induced Dermatitis Resolves Concomitant Eruptive Keratoacanthomas.
  JAMA dermatology 2020 Crow LD, Perkins I, Twigg AR, Fassett MS, LeBoit PE, Berger TG, Khodosh R
• Initial skin cancer screening for solid organ transplant recipients in the United States: Delphi method development of expert consensus guidelines.
  Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation 2019 Crow LD, Jambusaria-Pahlajani A, Chung CL, Baran DA, Lowenstein SE, Abdelmalek M, Ahmed RL, Anadkat MJ, Arcasoy SM, Berg D, Bibee KP, Billingsley E, Black WH, Blalock TW, Bleicher M, Brennan DC, …
• Cutaneous endometriosis.
  International journal of women's dermatology 2019 Raffi L, Suresh R, McCalmont TH, Twigg AR
• Association of HLA Antigen Mismatch With Risk of Developing Skin Cancer After Solid-Organ Transplant.
  JAMA dermatology 2019 Gao Y, Twigg AR, Hirose R, Roll GR, Nowacki AS, Maytin EV, Vidimos AT, Rajalingam R, Arron ST
• The relationship between menopausal hormone therapy and keratinocyte carcinoma: A review.
  International journal of women's dermatology 2018 Suresh R, Twigg A, Murase JE
• Melanoma Outcomes in Transplant Recipients With Pretransplant Melanoma.
  Dermatologic surgery : official publication for American Society for Dermatologic Surgery [et al.] 2016 Arron ST, Raymond AK, Yanik EL, Castenson D, McCulloch CE, Clarke CA, Paddock LE, Niu X, Engels EA
• Patterns of recurrence following complete response to regional chemotherapy for in-transit melanoma.
  Annals of surgical oncology 2012 Sharma K, Beasley G, Turley R, Raymond AK, Broadwater G, Peterson B, Mosca P, Tyler D
• Dermatomal sclerodermoid graft-vs-host disease following varicella-zoster virus infection.
  Archives of dermatology 2011 Raymond AK, Singletary HL, Nelson KC, Sidhu-Malik NK
• Current trends in regional therapy for melanoma: lessons learned from 225 regional chemotherapy treatments between 1995 and 2010 at a single institution.
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2011 Raymond AK, Beasley GM, Broadwater G, Augustine CK, Padussis JC, Turley R, Peterson B, Seigler H, Pruitt SK, Tyler DS
• Regional treatment strategies for in-transit melanoma metastasis.
  Surgical oncology clinics of North America 2011 Turley RS, Raymond AK, Tyler DS
• A two-hybrid assay to study protein interactions within the secretory pathway.
  PloS one 2010 Dube DH, Li B, Greenblatt EJ, Nimer S, Raymond AK, Kohler JJ
• Regional squamous cell carcinomas following systemic sorafenib therapy and isolated limb infusion for regionally advanced metastatic melanoma of the limb.
  Archives of dermatology 2010 Raymond AK, Puri PK, Selim MA, Tyler DS, Nelson KC