Impact Profiles

Dr. Yvonne Chiu is making important progress in morphea research that directly helps care for pediatric dermatology patients. She shared more about her work, the important role of mentorship, and how an early vote of confidence she received from the Dermatology Foundation made a difference in her career. She also has some exciting thoughts on the future of our specialty.

Eleni Linos MD, MPH, DrPH, is Professor of Dermatology and Epidemiology at Stanford University. Among her many research projects, her current work is having an immediate impact on public health during the pandemic. As an active mentor to younger investigators, she shared with us her vision for the future and why she believes that the “intersection of public health and dermatology is a huge opportunity to positively impact people’s lives.”

Stuart R. Lessin, MD serves as KGL Skin Study Center’s Medical Director and is a DF Fitzpatrick Legacy Fund member. He has over 30 years of laboratory and clinical research experience including topical drug development and testing. Dr. Lessin recently spoke with us about a few of the reasons he’s involved with the Dermatology Foundation and has found it to be such a significant organization in his life for so long.

Dr. Karen Connolly has been a Dermatology Foundation member since she landed her first job. As a busy surgical dermatologist, she’s been impressed with the type of cutting-edge research the DF funds and by their ongoing educational offerings — just one of the reasons she’s such an advocate for this organization. As she says in this interview: “To support residents, to support education — that’s so important.”

Chairman of the Department of Dermatology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Dermatologist-in-Chief of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Dr. Sewon Kang knows the importance of new scientific knowledge about the skin. In this interview, he shares his belief that what Dermatology Foundation does is key to our future: “We all benefit from bright dermatologists and skin researchers interested in skin biology who stay in that research space.”