A longtime South Florida dermatologist died recently after falling while on a hiking trail in North Carolina, police said.
Dr. Barry Dubner, of Parkland, was found by first responders about 9 a.m. July 30 after he fell down a steep embankment on the Glen Burney Falls Trail in Blowing Rock, N.C., a town in the western part of the state north of Asheville. After medics and first responders tried to rescue him, he was pronounced dead at the scene, Blowing Rock Police Department said in a news release.
The three-mile round-trip trail is a difficult hike with slippery areas, waterfalls and a 600-foot elevation gain, according to the Blue Ridge Conservancy.
Dubner ran a practice in Coral Springs and retired earlier this year, Florida Department of Health records show.
Originally from Philadelphia, Dubner earned his medical degree in 1984 from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, interned at Georgetown University Hospital and moved to Miami in 1985 for a dermatology residence at the University of Miami’s Dr. Phillip Frost Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery, the department’s chair said in a statement shared on Instagram.
Dubner remained involved with the department as a voluntary professor after going into practice in 1988, the statement said. He was a member of the Miami Dermatology Society, where he was the membership chair, as well as the Broward County Dermatology Society, the Florida Society of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery and the American Academy of Dermatology. While a resident, Dubner contributed to literature on a rare genetic skin disorder in childhood and Merkel cell carcinoma.
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