2024 Symposium Speakers

In alphabetical order. Subject to change

 SpeakerTitleInstitution
Crystal Aguh, M.D.Assistant Professor of DermatologyJohns Hopkins University
Ardeshir Bayat, M.D., Ph.D.Professor & Director, Wound Healing LaboratoryUniversity of Cape Town
Angel Byrd, M.D., Ph.D.

 

Associate ProfessorHoward University
Carmelo Carmona-Rivera, Ph.D.Staff Scientist, Systemic Autoimmunity Branch

 

NIH / NIAMS

 

Christina de Guzman Strong, Ph.D.Associate ProfessorMichigan State University
Donald Glass, M.D., Ph.D.Associate Professor

 

UT Southwestern Medical Center

 

Emma Guttman, M.D., Ph.D.Professor and ChairMount Sinai
John E. Harris, M.D., Ph.D.Professor and ChairUniversity of Massachusetts
 Tamia A. Harris-Tryon, M.D., Ph.D.Associate Professor,
Thomas L. Shields, M.D. Professorship in Dermatology
UT Southwestern
Valerie Horsley, Ph.D.Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental BiologyYale
Lamont Jones, M.D., M.B.A., F.A.C.S.Vice Chair, Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck SurgeryHenry Ford Health

 

Shawn Kwatra, M.D.Associate Professor of Dermatology, Director, Johns Hopkins Itch Center

 

Johns Hopkins Medicine
Tina Lasisi, Ph.D.Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Michigan
Sancy Leachman, M.D., Ph.D.Professor and ChairOHSU
P’ng Loke, Ph.D.Chief, Type 2 Immunity SectionNIH / NIAMS
Melissa Manus, Ph.D., MS.c.Assistant Professor of AnthropologyUT San Antonio
Tesfaye Mersha, Ph.D.Professor of PediatricsCincinnati Children’s Hospital
Ian A. Miles, M.D., M.P.H.Principal Investigator, Epithelial Therapeutics Unit

Chief Medical Research Officer, U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps

NIH / NIAID
Ginette A. Okoye, M.D.Professor and ChairHoward University
Maksim Plikus, Ph.D.ProfessorUC Irvine
Ernst J. Reichenberger, Ph.D.ProfessorUniversity of Connecticut
Jillian Richmond, Ph.D.Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Massachusetts
Todd W. Ridky, M.D., Ph.D.Associate ProfessorUniversity of Pennsylvania
Dennis Roop, Ph.D.Professor of Dermatology

Director, Gates Center for Regenerative Medicine

University of Colorado
Tiffany Scharschmidt, M.D.Associate ProfessorUC San Francisco
Dorothy M. Supp, Ph.D.Adjunct ProfessorUniversity of Cincinnati
Junko Takeshita, M.D., Ph.D., MSCE

 

Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Pennsylvania
Steven D.Townsend, Ph.D.ProfessorVanderbilt University