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 |