Dr Vause has been an Executive Board member of the NJ state society since 2000. She received her medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in 1982. Her Dermatology residency training was completed at Howard University Hospital in Washington,DC in 1989. Additional advanced Fellowship training in Dermatologic Cosmetic Surgery completed in 1992 at Gulf South Med Surg Institute in New Orleans.LA. She practiced in Philadelphia with her father, the late Harold Pierce, MD until 2005. They co-developed PSG skin care products to address problem complexions in all skin types