John Y. M. Koo, MD
Dr. Koo is Professor of Clinical Dermatology at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine and Vice Chairman in the Department of Dermatology at the UCSF Medical Center. He is also Director of the UCSF Dermatology Psoriasis Treatment Center and Phototherapy Unit, Drug Research Unit, and Psychodermatology Clinic. Dr Koo received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, where he was a Harvard National Scholar, a title awarded to only one student per graduating class. He completed an internship and a psychiatry residency at the University of California at Los Angeles, and subsequently served as Chief Resident in psychiatry. He also completed a dermatology residency at UCSF Medical Center. Board certified in both psychiatry and dermatology, he is a member of the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Dermatology, he is also a medical advisory board member of the National Psoriasis Foundation and a founding member of the Association for Psychocutaneous Medicine of North America. Active in clinical research, Dr Koo is at the cutting edge of therapeutic development for psoriasis and eczema. He recently served as the main spokesperson discussing psoriasis for an episode on a regular Discovery Channel program entitled “Cutting Edge in Medical Science.” Dr Koo has authored or coauthored more than 200 books and articles published in journals such as Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, Archives of Dermatology, and Cutis. He is coeditor of Psoriasis Forum and an advisory board member of the Inflammatory Disease Institute. He also serves on the editorial boards of Journal of American Academy of Dermatology, Dermatology Psychometrics, and Journal of Symptom Validity.
Mark G. Lebwohl, M.D.
Dr. Mark Lebwohl graduated summa cum laude from Columbia College in 1974 and graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1978. He completed residencies in internal medicine and dermatology, both at Mount Sinai.
Dr. Lebwohl has been practicing dermatology since 1983. He is professor and chairman of the Department of Dermatology of The Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Lebwohl has served as president of the New York Dermatological Society, the Manhattan Dermatologic Society, and the New York State Society of Dermatology, and as chairman of the Dermatology Section of the New York Academy of Medicine. Dr. Lebwohl has served as chairman of the Psoriasis Task Force of the American Academy of Dermatology, and has directed the AAD’s annual Psoriasis Symposium, Diagnostic Update Symposium and Therapeutics Symposium. He was a member of the Scientific Assembly Council, and chaired Academy 2001 in California and the AAD annual meeting in Washington, D.C. in 2004. He was elected to the Board of Directors of the AAD for 2010-2014.
Dr. Lebwohl is chairman of the Medical Board of the National Psoriasis Foundation. He is the founding editor of Psoriasis Forum as well as medical editor of the bulletin of the National Psoriasis Foundation, Psoriasis Advance. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology and was editor of the Dermatology Section of Scientific American Medicine, now called ACP Medicine. Dr. Lebwohl has chaired numerous symposia and has written, edited, or co-edited several books including the first atlas devoted entirely to cutaneous manifestations of systemic disease, and the leading book on dermatologic therapy, Treatment of Skin Disease. The second edition of The Skin and Systemic Disease has been published in English and in French, and English, Portuguese, and Polish versions of Treatment of Skin Disease have been published. Other books include Difficult Diagnoses in Dermatology, Psoriasis, Mild-to-Moderate Psoriasis and Moderate-to-Severe Psoriasis. He has authored or co-authored over 500 publications including peer-reviewed articles, invited articles and book chapters. Dr. Lebwohl is actively involved in clinical trials of many new dermatologic treatments.
Vera H. Price, M.D., F.R.C.P.(C)
Dr. Price is Professor in the Department of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She is Director of the UCSF Hair Research Center and Director of the UCSF Hair and Nail Clinic. Dr. Price received her medical degree from the University of Toronto, Canada, and trained in Dermatology at New York University Postgraduate Medical School. After moving to California, Dr. Price was a research dermatologist at UCSF, and spent three years doing basic research on the structure and biochemistry of human hair with wool chemists at the Western Regional Research Laboratory of the United States Department of Agriculture in Berkeley, California. This subsequently led to her expertise and subspecialty in hair and hair biology.
Dr. Price’s research interests include immunopathologic and genetic studies in alopecia areata, histologic and molecular studies in cicatricial alopecia, hormonal regulation of the hair follicle, quantitative methods of estimating hair growth, structural hair shaft anomalies, and special aspects of Afro-American hair. She is credited with describing several new hair disorders. She has been engaged in extensive clinical research including numerous studies with finasteride and minoxidil for androgenetic alopecia. She has authored 115 publications.
Dr. Price has been visiting professor and guest lecturer at numerous universities in the United States and abroad. She has served as a Director of the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD). She is a founding member and past President of the North American Hair Research Society. In 2004 she received the Mentor of the Year Award from the Women's Dermatologic Society.
She is co-founder of the National Alopecia Areata Foundation (NAAF), and the Cicatricial Alopecia Research Foundation (CARF). She has voluntarily served as Chairman of the Board of both of these non-profit organizations, and has devoted thousands of hours to ensure their progress and success in their research efforts and patient support.
Antonella Tosti, MD, Research Scientist and Professor
Antonella Tosti is a Professor of Dermatology and Director of the Allergology Unit and Nail & Hair Center, within the Department of Dermatology at the University of Bologna, Italy. Since 1988, her dermatological focus has been on allergology, clinical and basic aspects of hair and nail biology, aesthetic medicine. Her efforts are split between academic pursuits and clinical practice. Professor Tosti is President of the European Nail Society, Past President of the Council of Nail Disorders, and a member of the American Academy of Dermatology, American Dermatologic Association, North American Hair Research Society, European Hair Research Society, International Society of Dermatology, European Women's Dermatological Society, Donne Dermatologhe Italiane, European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, Women's Dermatological Society among others. Well published, Professor Tosti has authored approximately 600 publications and 25 monographs, most notably here is her work on Finasteride.
Eli Sprecher, MD, PhD, Dermatologist and Genetics Research
Dr. Eli Sprecher is the Director of the Department of Dermatology at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel. Dr. Sprecher is also Director of the Center for Translational Genetics of the Rappaport Family Institute for Research in the Medical Sciences at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel.
Currently, Dr. Sprecher is Associate Editor for the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, Section Editor for the British Journal of Dermatology and is on the Advisory Editorial Board for the Clinical and Experimental Dermatology.
Dr. Sprecher’s large library of published research has merited worldwide recognition. His work has been honored with the Belgian Government Prize (1981), the Rector’s Prize from the Hebrew University (1983), the Dean’s Prize from the Hebrew University (1983 - 1987), the Senta Foulkes Research Award (1994), the Tsipora Friedman Research Award (1998), the Israel Society of Dermatology Research Award, the Everett C. Fox Award from the American Academy of Dermatology (2002), the Bill Reed Award (2002), the Henry Taub Prize for Academic Excellence from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (2006), and the Alfred Marchionini Award from the International Society of Dermatology (2007).
Dr. Sprecher graduated with a B.Med. and M.D. in Medicine from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a Ph.D. in Molecular Virology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and completed a fellowship program in Genetics of Skin Diseases at the Thomas Jefferson University of Philadelphia.
Errol P. Prens, Professor, MD, PhD
Errol Prens (1956) earned his MD degree in 1981 at the University of Groningen and became a certified Dermatologist in 1985 after receiving his training in the department of Dermatology and Venerology in the former Dijkzigt Hospital and Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He joined the department of Immunology of the same university for research on skin inflammation, resulting in his thesis ‘Immunopathophysiology of psoriasis; studies on accessory cells, cytokines and their receptors’, Erasmus University Rotterdam (1992). Certification as an Immunologist followed in 1993 (SMWBO). He combined his position as a postdoctoral fellow and leader of the Experimental Immunodermatology group in the department of Immunology of the Erasmus MC, with his clinical tasks as an all-round dermatologist in Ziekenhuis Walcheren in Vlissingen. He is a reviewer for several international dermatological and immunological journals, co-founder and board member of the Dutch Society for Experimental Dermatology, and member of the scientific committee of the international congress “Psoriasis from Gene to Clinic” in London.
Pascal Reygagne, MD, Dermatologist
Dr. Reygagne is Director of Centre de santé Sabouraud at Hospital Saint Louis in Paris. Centre de santé Sabouraud is a hair clinic comprised of 40 dermatologists who treat 2,000 patients a month. Dr. Reygagne has been with the clinic since 1995 and is the principal of clinical research in the field of androgenetic alopecia, alopecia areata, scalp psoriasis, seborrheic dermatitis, and cicatricial alopecia. Dr. Reygagne conducts 3 to 4 clinical studies every year. Each study involves a staff of 4 dermatologists and support staff for 20 to 100 patients.
Dr. Reygagne is a well-recognized national lecturer in the field of hair and hair loss and creator of a teaching CD on hair and scalp diseases. He has more than 35 posters and communications accepted in French and international congresses between 1990- 2008; has 16 English and 26 French publications in major medical journals; is a member of Revue Dermatologique du Cheveu; published co-author with P. Bouhanna of Pathologie du cheveu et du cuir chevelu (Masson éditeur, Paris, 1999); and contributing writer to Alopécies du traité de dermatologie (2001, éds MASSON ; direction du Pr. Dubertret), L’encyclopédie Médico-chirurgicale, and The Science of Hair Care chapter entitled “Alopecia” (edited by Bouillon C., Wilkinson J. Taylor, and Francis Group, 2005).
Dr. Reygagne is a Member of the American Academy of Dermatology, Expert of the national French agency for safety of drugs and health products (AFSSAPS), Member of the board of the European Hair Research Society, Expert of ANVAR (French national agency for research valorisation), and Member of the French Society of Dermatology.
Dr. Reygagne attended the School of Medicine at Necker Hospital, René Descartes University, Paris (1976-1983) and completing his Doctorate (1985) and Residency in Medicine and Dermatology at Internat des hôpitaux de Paris (1989). He completed his CESAM (Certificate of statistical sciences dedicated to medicine in 1987) and STARC (Statistics, option medical clinical research in 1987), and has a certification in dermatology (1989). Dr. Reygagne was Chief Resident (Fellowship) of Dermatology and Assistant at Hôpital Saint Louis (1989-1993).
Omar Lupi da Rosa Santos
Dr. Lupi is a Professor of Dermatology at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro and Fluminense Federal University, a research associate at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, professor of graduate studies at the University Federal of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Universidade Federal Fluminense and the Post-graduate Medical Institute Carlos Chagas. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, International Journal of Dermatology and the Brazilian Annals of Dermatology. He has won several awards from the Latino American College of Dermatology and the American Academy of Dermatology. He received degrees from the University of Rio de Janeiro, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and received his post-doctorate from the University of Texas Medical Branch, with specialties in Applied and Medical Microbiology.
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