Tucson native Daniel Butler, MD, is a double Wildcat with an undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Arizona and a medical degree from the College of Medicine – Tucson. Last year, nearly a decade after graduating with the Class of 2014, he returned to Tucson with his family. “We always wanted to come back,” he said. “The opportunity to start a research program was certainly one factor behind our decision. The opportunity to have a leadership role in education was another one. Also, my parents live here and we just had a baby.” In addition to his clinical practice at Banner – University Medicine, Dr. Butler serves as the assistant dean of student affairs and is busy launching the Division of Dermatology’s Inflammatory and Aging Skin Research Program, which will expand treatment options for inflammatory skin diseases through clinical care and clinical trials, and support scientific research in aging skin. The ethos driving Dr. Butler’s program is improving care for skin disease in older patients — not finding ways to fight the signs of aging. He believes that “normalizing” aging honors patients’ experiences and dermatologists’ roles as partners in their care — and helps us better understand healthy aging. “Nobody wants to age, but the fact of the matter is that everybody is aging,” he said. “As dermatologists and doctors, we have to be realistic about what that is supposed to look like.”