Researcher Lexie Nall, PhD, died Feb. 23 in Palo Alto. Nall began working at Stanford in 1968 as an epidemiologist in the Department of Dermatology, where she established the epidemiology laboratory.

For more than 35 years Nall studied the genetics and epidemiology of skin diseases, including psoriasis and epidermolysis bullosa. She was working on an epidemiological study of melanoma at Stanford at the time of her death.

She was co-author or co-editor of eight books including Skin Diseases in the Elderly, currently in press.

She received a graduate degree in anthropology in 1966 from Stanford and worked on archiving archeological specimens at the Leland Stanford, Jr., Museum. She also completed coursework at Stanford for her PhD, which she received in 1981 from Pacific Western University.

Nall was active in patient-support organizations such as the Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa Research Association, or DebRA. Donations in Nall’s memory may be made to DebRA of America Inc., 5 West 36th Street, Suite 404, New York, NY 10018.