WILLIAM ABRAMOVITS, MD
Dermatology Treatment & Research Center, Dallas, Texas
dra@dermcenter.us / 972.661.2729
Areas of Expertise: Clinical Research; Eczema; Atopic Dermatitis; Auto-Inflammatory Diseases; Psoriasis
LINDSAY SKYE ACKERMAN, MD
Medical Dermatology Specialists, PC, Phoenix, Arizona
ackerman.lindsay@gmail.com / 602.354.5770
Areas of Expertise: Managing Patients with Cutaneous Lymphomas; Severe Psoriasis; Autoimmune Cutaneous Diseases; Collagen Vascular Diseases; Blistering Disorders; Dermatologic Consultations; Clinical Research
A. RAZZAQUE AHMED, MD/DSc/MPA
Center for Blistering Diseases, Boston, Massachusetts
arahmedmd@msn.com / 617.562.1040
Areas of Expertise: Autoimmune Blistering Diseases; Comprehensive Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment; Clinical Research; Collaborative Lab Research; Development of Treatment Protocols for New Biologic Agents
MILAN ANADKAT, MD
Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
manadkat@dom.wustl.edu / 314.362.9859
Areas of Expertise: Chemotherapy Induced Skin Reactions; Dermatologic Therapeutics; Collagen Vascular Disease; Autoimmune Bullous Disease; Graft-versus-Host Disease and Psoriasis
JEAN BOLOGNIA, MD
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
jean.bolognia@yale.edu / 203.785.4092
Areas of Expertise: Pigmented Lesions including Melanoma
JEFFREY P. CALLEN, MD
University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky
jeffrey.callen@louisville.edu / 502.583.1749
Areas of Expertise: Lupus Erythematosus; Dermatomyositis; Vasculitis; Sarcoidosis; Morphea; Systemic Therapies for Dermatologic Disease; Bullous Disease
ADELA RAMBI CARDONES, MD
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
adela.cardones@duke.edu / 919.684.3110
Areas of Expertise: Immunodermatology, Graft-versus-Host Disease, Severe Cutaneous Drug Reactions, DematoOncology
STEVEN CHEN, MD/MPH/MS-HPEd
Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
stchen@partners.org / 617.643.5598
Areas of Expertise: Cutaneous Lymphomas; Blistering Disorders; Inpatient Medicine; Inpatient Dermatology; Medical Education; Oncodermatology
JENNIFER CHOI, MD
Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
Jennifer.choi@northwestern.edu / 203.589.8212
Areas of Expertise: Oncodermatology/Skin Disease and Cutaneous Toxicities Due to Chemotherapy and Radiation; Melanoma; Pigmented Lesions; Complex Medical Dermatology
JENNIE T. CLARKE, MD
University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
jennie.clarke@hsc.utah.edu / 801.581.6465
Areas of Expertise: Autoimmune Skin Diseases
EDWARD COWEN, MD/MHSc
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
cowene@mail.nih.gov / 301.480-7196
Areas of Expertise: Graft versus Host Disease; Genodermatoses; Drug Reactions; Primary Immunodeficiency; Auto Inflammatory
LUIS A. DIAZ, MD
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
ldiaz@med.unc.edu / 919.843.6756
Areas of Expertise: Clinical Immunodermatology
JANET A. FAIRLEY, MD
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
janet-fairley@uiowa.edu / 319.356.3609
Areas of Expertise: Autoimmune Skin Disease; Skin Manifestations of Systemic Disease
RON J. FELDMAN, MD/PHD
Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
ron.j.feldman@emory.edu / 404.727.6770
Areas of Expertise: Autoimmune Blistering Diseases
JOHN R. FENYK, JR., MD
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minneapolis
fenyk001@umn.edu / 763.377.9707
Areas of Expertise: Autoimmune and Immunobullous Disorders; Current Research in Phase II and III Immune Response Medicators in Warts; Actinic Keratoses; Basal Cell
ANTHONY P. FERNANDEZ, MD/PHD
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
fernana6@ccf.org / 216.445.8776
Areas of Expertise: Complex Medical Dermatology; Dermatopathology; Connective Tissue Diseases; Psoriasis; Autoimmune Bullous Diseases; Cutaneous Lymphoma; Neutrophilic Dermatoses; Inpatient Dermatology; Systemic Immunosuppressive Agents
NICOLE M. FETT, MD/MSCE
Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon
fett@ohsu.edu
Areas of Expertise: Autoimmune Blistering Diseases; Autoimmune Connective Tissue Diseases; General Dermatology
DAVID FIVENSON, MD
David Fivenson, MD, Dermatology, PLLC, Ann Arbor, Michigan
fivensondermatology@comcast.net / 734.222.9630
Areas of Expertise: Immunobullous Diseases; Connective Tissue Diseases; Wound Healing; Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma; Psoriasis; Atopic Dermatitis; Immunobiologic Therapies
LINDY FOX, MD
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
foxli@derm.ucsf.edu / 415.353.9609
Areas of Expertise: Inpatient Medical Dermatology; Inpatient Consultations
AMIT GARG, MD
Hofstra / North Shore School of Medicine, New Hyde Park, New York
amgarg@northwell.edu / 516.321.8541
Areas of Expertise: Big Data Research; Hidradenitis Suppurativa; Psoriasis; Hospital Based Dermatology
JOEL M. GELFAND, MD/MSCE
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
joel.gelfand@uphs.upenn.edu / 215.662.2737
Areas of Expertise: Psoriasis; Clinical Trials; Epidemiology
ANNA HAEMEL, MD
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
anna.haemel@ucsf.edu / 608.630.0856
Areas of Expertise: Rheumatology-Dermatology; Complex Medical Dermatology; Inpatient Dermatology; Internal Medicine
CHRISTOPHER HANSEN, MD
University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
christopher.hansen@hsc.utah.edu / 801.581.6465
Areas of Expertise: Autoimmune Skin Diseases
JOANNA HARP, MD
Weill Cornell Medical College/New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York
joh9090@med.cornell.edu / 817.458.6907
Areas of Expertise: Inpatient Dermatology
WARREN R. HEYMANN, MD
Heymann, Manders, Green and Sommer, LLC, Marlton, New Jersey
wrheymann@gmail.com / 856.596.0111
Areas of Expertise: Consultative Medical Dermatology
MARIA HORDINSKY, MD
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
hordi001@umn.edu / 612.625.1493
Areas of Expertise: Hair Diseases; Alopecia Areata, Non-Scarring and Scarring Alopecias; Neurodermatology
SYLVIA HSU, MD
Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
sylvia.hsu@tuhs.temple.edu / 215.219.6258
Areas of Expertise: Autoimmune Bullous Diseases; Psoriasis
WILLIAM W. HUANG, MD/MPH
Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
whuang@wakehealth.edu / 336.716.2198
Areas of Expertise: Referral Medical Dermatology; Graduate Medical Education; Patient-Provider Communication; Mentoring
CHRISTOPHER HULL, MD
University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
christopher.hull@hsc.utah.edu / 801.581.6465
Areas of Expertise: Autoimmune Diseases
MARIA YADIRA HURLEY, MD
Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri
hurleyy@slu.edu / 314.256.3434
Areas of Expertise: Clinicopathologic Correlations; Dermatology/Dermatopathology; Cutaneous Lymphomas
WILLIAM JAMES, MD
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
william.james@uphs.upenn.edu / 215.662.7883
Areas of Expertise: Allergic Contact Dermatitis Acne; Rosacea; Travel Acquired Diseases; Teledermatology; Tropical Diseases; Immunology; Difficult to Diagnose or Treat Diseases
JOSEPH L. JORIZZO, MD
Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina
Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York
jjorizzo@wakehealth.edu // joj9026@med.cornell.edu / 336.577.7919
Areas of Expertise: Rheumatologic; Medical Dermatology; General Complex Dermatology
YOUN H. KIM, MD
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
younkim@stanford.edu / 650.725.3292
Areas of Expertise: Cutaneous Lymphoma
BRETT KING, MD/PHD
Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
brett.king@yale.edu / 203.675.9818
Areas of Expertise: Alopecia Areata; Atopic Dermatitis; Vitiligo; Autoimmune Bullous Disease
RACHEL KORNIK, MD
University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, Madison, Wisconsin
rkornik@dermatology.wisc.edu / 608.287.2620
Areas of Expertise: Gynecologic Dermatology; Women’s Dermatological Health
DANIELA KROSHINSKY, MD/MPH
Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
dkroshinsky@gmail.com / 312.545.5406
Areas of Expertise: Inpatient Adult and Pediatric Dermatology; Complex Medical Dermatology; Cellulitis; Calciphylaxis
GERALD KRUEGER, MD
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
gerald.krueger@hsc.utah.edu / 801.581.6465
Areas of Expertise: Psoriasis; Hair Loss
BERNICE KWONG, MD
Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
bernicek@stanford.edu / 650.725.3292
Areas of Expertise: Cutaneous Side Effects of Anticancer Therapies; Graft-versus-Host Disease; Inpatient Dermato-Oncology Consults
EDEN LAKE, MD
Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois
edenpappolake@gmail.com / 847.804.0430
Areas of Expertise: Medical Dermatology; Inflammatory Skin Conditions; Inpatient Dermatology
SANCY LEACHMAN, MD/PHD
Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon
leachmas@ohsu.edu / 503.494.6024
Areas of Expertise: Melanoma; Vitiligo; Cancer Genetics
ALEX ORTEGA LOAYZA, MD
Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon
ortegalo@ohsu.edu / 919.619.4096
Areas of Expertise: Pyoderma Gangrenosum; Ulcers; Inflammatory Skin Conditions
AARON MANGOLD, MD
Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale Arizona
mangold.aaron@mayo.edu / 480.258.7412
Areas of Expertise: Cutaneous Lymphoma; Complex Medical Dermatology
MELISSA MAUSKAR, MD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
melissa.mauskar@utsouthwestern.edu / 832.409.9553
Areas of Expertise: Clinical Interests: In-patient Dermatology; Vulvar and Genital Mucosal Dermatology
JOSEPH F. MEROLA, MD/MMSc
Harvard Medical School / Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
jfmerola@bwh.harvard.edu / 617.264.5943
Areas of Expertise: Rheumatology-Dermatology; Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis; Connective Tissue Diseases; Clinical Trials; Clinical Research; Pharmacoepidemiology
ROBERT MICHELETTI, MD
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
robert.micheletti@uphs.upenn.edu / 215.662.2737
Areas of Expertise: In-patient Dermatology; Vasculitis; Graft versus Host Disease; Infectious Diseases
ARASH MOSTAGHIMI, MD/MPH
Harvard Medical School / Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
amostaghimi@partners.org / 617.525.3191
Areas of Expertise: Inpatient Consultations; Medical Dermatology
ELIOT N. MOSTOW, MD
Northeastern Ohio Medical University (NEOMED), Akron, Ohio
emostow@NEOMED.edu / 330.535.7100 x 212
Areas of Expertise: Wound Healing; Process Efficiency and Error Reduction in Dermatology; Healthcare Leadership
DEDEE F. MURRELL, MD/MA (Cambridge) BMBCh (Oxford)
University of New South Wales, Sydney, St. George Hospital, Kogarah, Sydney, Australia
d.murrell@unsw.edu.au / +61.2.9113.2543
Areas of Expertise: Bullous Diseases; Epidermolysis Bullosa; Clinical Trials
HALEY NAIK, MD/MHSc
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
haley.naik@uscsf.edu / 781.367.5876
Areas of Expertise: Hidradenitis Suppurativa; Complex Medical Dermatology; Auto Inflammatory Skin Diseases
VINOD NAMBUDIRI, MD/MBA
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
vnambudiri@partners.org / 914.907.2705
Areas of Expertise: Complex Medical Dermatology; Health Care Policy; Healthcare Leadership; Costs of Care; Medical Education
CUONG V. NGUYEN, MD
Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
cuong.nguyen@northwestern.edu / 312.695.1413
Areas of Expertise: Inpatient Dermatology, Dermatopathology, Oncodermatology, Drug Reactions, Connective Tissue Diseases
TARANEH PARAVAR, MD
University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California
tparavar@ucsd.edu
Areas of Expertise: Autoimmune Connective Tissue Disease; Medical Dermatology
MARTA PETERSEN, MD
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
marta.petersen@hsc.utah.edu / 801.585.9624
Areas of Expertise: Leg Ulcers; Connective Tissue Disease; Medical Dermatology Referral Practice; Bullous Diseases; Psoriasis; Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma
ABRAR A. QURESHI, MD/MPH
The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University / Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island
abrar_qureshi@brown.edu / 401.444.7137
Areas of Expertise: Translational Research in Skin and Related Musculoskeletal Diseases; Systemic Lupus Erythematosus; Dermatomyositis; Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis
JAMIE RHOADS, MD
University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
jamie.rhoads@hsc.utah.edu / 801.581.6465
Areas of Expertise: Autoimmune Diseases
NATHAN ROJEK, MD
University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California
nrojek@uci.edu / 949.824.5515
Areas of Expertise: Inpatient Dermatology; Infectious Diseases; Complex Medical Dermatology
CHERYL ROSEN, MD/FRCPC
Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
c.rosen@utoronto.ca / 416.262.3799
Areas of Expertise: Photosensitivity Disorders; Psoriasis; Vitiligo
MISHA ROSENBACH, MD
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Contact the MDS Office for Contact Email / 215.662.2737
Areas of Expertise: In-patient Dermatology; Sarcoidosis; Granulomatous Diseases; Undiagnosed Diseases
ARTURO P. SAAVEDRA, MD/PHD/MBA
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
AS4DA@hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu
Areas of Expertise: Infectious Disease; Graft versus Host Disease; Dermatopathology
KANADE SHINKAI, MD/PHD
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
kanade.shinkai@ucsf.edu / 415.353.7890
Areas of Expertise: Consultative Dermatology; Complex Medical Dermatology; Drug Eruptions; Neutrophilic Dermatoses; Medical Education
GIDEON P. SMITH, MD/PHD/MPH
Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
gpsmith@mgh.harvard.edu / 617.726.2914
Areas of Expertise: Autoimmune Connective Tissue Disease; Scleroderma; Lupus; Dermatomyositis; Sarcoid; Raynaud’s Disease; Clinical Trials; Novel Biologic and Immunosuppressive Therapies; Epidemiology; Public Health and Decision Analysis Research
RICHARD D. SONTHEIMER, MD
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
richard.sontheimer@hsc.utah.edu / 801.581.6465
Areas of Expertise: Rheumatologic Skin Diseases
ROBERT SWERLICK, MD
Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
rswerli@emory.edu / 404.727.3669
Areas of Expertise: Autoimmune Disease; Eczema; Thrombotic Disease; Vasculitis
LUCIA SEMINARIO-VIDAL, MD/PHD
University of South Florida, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida
luciasem@usf.edu / 919.667.8201
Areas of Expertise: Inpatient Dermatology, Oncodermatology, Cutaneous Lymphomas
RUTH ANN VLEUGELS, MD/MPH
Harvard Medical School / Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
rvleugels@partners.org / 615.498.2023
Areas of Expertise: Connective Tissue Disease; Cutaneous Lupus; Dermatomyositis; Systemic Sclerosis; Medical Dermatology
KAROLYN WANAT, MD
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
kwanat@mcw.edu / 414.805.3666
Areas of Expertise: Infectious Diseases; In-patient Consults; Medical Dermatology; Granulomatous Diseases; Dermatopathology
VICTORIA WERTH, MD
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
werth@mail.med.upenn.edu / 215.823.4208
Areas of Expertise: Cutaneous Autoimmune Diseases
ALAN ZHOU, MD
Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
alan.zhou@northwestern.edu / 312.695.0467
Areas of Expertise: Cutaneous Lymphoma, Complex Medical Dermatology
JOHN ZONE, MD
University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
john.zone@hsc.utah.edu / 801.581.6465
Areas of Expertise: Autoimmune Diseases
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