Dermatology Foundation
Deepen Your Knowledge
Now in its 23rd year, this DF Clinical Symposium delivers high-impact, cutting-edge education across a wide range of dermatological topics. Thirteen expert speakers will present: Drs. Crystal Aguh, Jean Bolognia, Yvonne E. Chiu, Shawn Gaurav Kwatra, Haley Naik, Kishwer S. Nehal, Adam I. Rubin, Cory L. Simpson, Colleen K. Stockdale, Susan C. Taylor, Marta J….
A Champion of Patient Safety and Education
Dr. James Taylor has dedicated his career to the Cleveland Clinic, embodying its mission of patient care, education, and research, the very values for which he received the Dermatology Foundation’s 2025 Practitioner of the Year Honorary Award. Taylor’s career is inextricably linked to the Clinic, where he has worked continually since graduating from the Indiana…
The Imperatives for Sustaining Academic Dermatology
Academic medicine, and dermatology in particular, is facing a critical inflection point, one that mirrors the broader social and political landscape. As financial pressures intensify, institutions across the country are seeking ways to continue to fulfill their missions in research, education, and clinical care. At Johns Hopkins University, we have undergone multiple rounds of deliberations…
Creating Disease Severity and Quality-of-Life Scoring Systems for Blistering Diseases
Comparing the efficacy of existing therapies between clinical trials, as well as evaluating new treatments, requires an accurate and reliable assessment of the clinical nature of a disease. Yet the first comprehensive analysis of the interventions used to treat pemphigus, a range of autoimmune blistering diseases (AIBD), was inconclusive due to incomplete information, including absence…
The Dean of Black Dermatology
Against the backdrop of severe and persistent racism, including his family’s move to New Jersey in 1922 to escape threats from the Ku Klux Klan, Dr. John A. Kenney Jr. embarked on a journey that ultimately led his residents, mentees, and peers to honor him with the title, the Dean of Black Dermatology (Tuller 2003)….
Dr. Donald A. Glass II Receives the 2024 DF Sanofi and Regeneron Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Mid-Career Award
Donald A. Glass II, MD, PhD, has received the first 2024 DF Sanofi and Regeneron Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Mid-Career Award (SRDEI) from the Dermatology Foundation (DF). The award funds research of exceptional mid-career investigators and comes with funding of $100,000 each year for three years to support basic, clinical, or translational research that leads…
Dr. Aimee Payne’s Path to Creating CAAR-T Cell Therapies
In 2011, Aimee Payne, MD, PhD, was running a lab at the University of Pennsylvania, studying pemphigus vulgaris, an autoimmune disease of the skin that results when B cells make antibodies that attack the cell-adhesion protein desmoglein 3.
Through the Lens of Education
Timothy T. Berger, MD, has always been a visual person and likes the stories art can tell. He understands something in the clinic better when he can draw a picture of it. Dr. Berger was Professor of Clinical Dermatology in the Department of Dermatology at the UCSF School of Medicine and, for his dedication to…
60 Years of Discovery and Counting
In the 1950s, Dr. Stephen Rothman was among those who pioneered the idea of investigative dermatology, believing physicians should apply basic scientific research to the practice of our specialty. Dermatologists embraced the role of science in dermatology, including those who created the Dermatology Foundation in 1964. They based the Foundation on a simple idea: that…
In Step With Patients and Residents
For more than 40 years, whether in a clinical setting or within university walls, Dr. Jeffrey Herten, the 2023 DF Clark W. Finnerud Award recipient, has been able to convey his love of the specialty and his compassion towards patients. He graduated from the Medical School of the University of California, Irvine, (UCI) in 1972…