2024 Symposium Speakers
In alphabetical order. Subject to change
Speaker | Title | Institution | |
Crystal Aguh, M.D. | Assistant Professor of Dermatology | Johns Hopkins University | |
Ardeshir Bayat, M.D., Ph.D. | Professor & Director, Wound Healing Laboratory | University of Cape Town | |
Angel Byrd, M.D., Ph.D.
| Associate Professor | Howard University | |
Carmelo Carmona-Rivera, Ph.D. | Staff Scientist, Systemic Autoimmunity Branch
| NIH / NIAMS
| |
Christina de Guzman Strong, Ph.D. | Associate Professor | Michigan State University | |
Donald Glass, M.D., Ph.D. | Associate Professor
| UT Southwestern Medical Center
| |
Emma Guttman, M.D., Ph.D. | Professor and Chair | Mount Sinai | |
John E. Harris, M.D., Ph.D. | Professor and Chair | University 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 Biology | Yale | |
Lamont Jones, M.D., M.B.A., F.A.C.S. | Vice Chair, Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery | Henry Ford Health
| |
Shawn Kwatra, M.D. | Associate Professor of Dermatology, Director, Johns Hopkins Itch Center
| Johns Hopkins Medicine | |
Tina Lasisi, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor | University of Michigan | |
Sancy Leachman, M.D., Ph.D. | Professor and Chair | OHSU | |
P’ng Loke, Ph.D. | Chief, Type 2 Immunity Section | NIH / NIAMS | |
Melissa Manus, Ph.D., MS.c. | Assistant Professor of Anthropology | UT San Antonio | |
Tesfaye Mersha, Ph.D. | Professor of Pediatrics | Cincinnati 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 Chair | Howard University | |
Maksim Plikus, Ph.D. | Professor | UC Irvine | |
Ernst J. Reichenberger, Ph.D. | Professor | University of Connecticut | |
Jillian Richmond, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor | University of Massachusetts | |
Todd W. Ridky, M.D., Ph.D. | Associate Professor | University of Pennsylvania | |
Dennis Roop, Ph.D. | Professor of Dermatology Director, Gates Center for Regenerative Medicine | University of Colorado | |
Tiffany Scharschmidt, M.D. | Associate Professor | UC San Francisco | |
Dorothy M. Supp, Ph.D. | Adjunct Professor | University of Cincinnati | |
Junko Takeshita, M.D., Ph.D., MSCE
| Assistant Professor | University of Pennsylvania | |
Steven D.Townsend, Ph.D. | Professor | Vanderbilt University |