Lucinda Faulkner graduated from Vanderbilt University School of Nursing in Nashville, Tennessee, with a Masters of Science in Nursing, along with her Registered Nurse and Family Nurse Practitioner degrees. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where she was awarded a full merit scholarship. She also spent a summer at the University of Oslo, Norway, on a Rotary scholarship, studying economics and history.

 Lucinda grew up in Covington, Georgia and spent most of her free time at her parent’s horse farm. She began riding ponies, moved on to equitation and then hunter/jumpers. Her father is a family practice physician, her mother trained as a speech pathologist, but now runs the farm. Her older sister is a doctorate-level psychologist and her younger brother is an economics wiz. Invariably, something medical and usually inappropriate for mealtime was, and is, brought up whenever the family is together. But, between watching her mother battle multiple (15+) skin cancers, starting at age 23, and seeing the personal skin damage caused by a youth in the sun, Lucinda became interested in dermatology specifically.

 Her initial dermatology training began in 1999 with Dr. Leonard Goldberg, a well-known Mohs surgeon in Houston, TX. From there, Lucinda came to Water’s Edge Dermatology where she enjoyed 3 years before taking a break to return to Georgia to be present for her new nieces and nephews. She has had enough of small-town Georgia and in 2006, was welcomed back to Water’s Edge.  She divides her time between medical/surgical dermatology and cosmetic/laser work.