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Leaders Society gifts of $1,500 sustain the DF mission. The largest of the Foundation’s Societies, Leaders believe a strong research pipeline leading to discovery and innovation is critical to keeping our specialty vibrant. Bold leaps forward are possible with enough support and funding. Become a Leader today!

The DF connects me with the dermatology community. It’s important to always be looking for keys and solutions that expand our knowledge, which helps all of us. That’s why I support research and the Foundation, first in the Scholars Circle, then to Leaders and today as an Annenberg Circle Sustainer. Just as important is my volunteer time with the Foundation, especially as Co-Chair of the Leaders Society. Join the DF community and unlock new discoveries advancing our specialty.”

Renée Mathur, MD

Secretary-Treasurer
Leaders Society Co-Chair
Renee Mathur, MD

2023 Leaders Society

The DF’s largest group of donors—the Leaders Society—has a prominent impact on the DF’s ability to support research each year.

January 1 to December 31

Timothy G. Abrahamson, MD

David C. Adams, MD

Michael Adler, MD

Kent S. Aftergut, MD

Edwin M. Ahrens, MD

Afsaneh Alavi, MD

John G. Albertini, MD

Kenneth S. Alpern, MD

Susan Amaturo, MD

Christine D. Ambro, MD

Milan Anadkat, MD

Vincent L. Angeloni, MD

Richard J. Antaya, MD

Melanie L. Appell, MD

Cheryl A. Armstrong, MD

Christopher J. Arpey, MD

Sarah T. Arron, MD, PhD

Elias E. Ayli, DO

Debra L. Bailey, MD

Carmen Balding, MD

Christian L. Baum, MD

Mark A. Bechtel, MD

Jaye E. Benjamin, MD

Daniel D. Bennett, MD

Bruce Bennin, MD

Michael Bharier, MD

Travis W. Blalock, MD

Michael Bobrow, MD

Brent M. Boyce, MD

Christopher Braker, MD

Gary J. Brauner, MD

James Brazil, MD

Isaac Brownell, MD, PhD

John Browning, MD

Allen T. Bruce, MD, PhD

Laura Buccheri-Zappi, MD

Krista Buckley, MD

Claude S. Burton, III, MD

Lori N. Byrd, MD

Michael Cairns, MD

Brian Capell, MD, PhD, FAAD

Amy B. Cardellio, DO

Adela Rambi G. Cardones, MD

Janet J. Cash, MD

David Casper, MD

Misty D. Caudell, MD

Anne Lynn Chang, MD

Attica C. Chang, MD

Karen L. Chapel, MD

Maria A. Charif, MD

Steven T. Chen, MD, MPH, MS-HPEd

Janet F. Cheng, MD

Megan S. Cherry, MD

Zelma C. Chiesa Fuxench, MD

Keith A. Choate, MD, PhD

Leslie J. Christenson, MD

Emily Y. Chu, MD, PhD

Gary W. Cole, MD

Nneka Comfere, MD

Adrian Connolly, MD

Karen Connolly, MD

Katharine Cordova, MD

Laurin Council, MD

Scott E. Crater, MD

David Crosby, MD

Jeffrey J. Crowley, MD

Donna A. Culton, MD, PhD

Steven D. Daveluy, MD

Mark Davis, MD

Christina Del Guzzo, MD

Thushan DeSilva, MD

Lucia Diaz, MD

Conor P. Dolehide, MD

Arturo R. Dominguez, MD

Zoe D. Draelos, MD

Kim Bui Drew, MD

Jonathan A. Dyer, MD

Robert Dyer, MD

Phil M. Ecker, MD

Phillip James Eichhorn, MD

Darrel L. Ellis, MD

Tanya Ermolovich, DO

Mrs. Virginia Escobedo

Matthew P. Evans, MD

Russell Eyre, MD

David E. Fisher, MD, PhD

Michael Fisher, MD

Theodore Fotopoulos, MD

Peter C. Friedman, MD, PhD

Eric S. Fromer, MD

Jan F. Fuerst, MD

John C. Fueston, MD

Josephine M. Futrell, MD, PhD

Anne-Sophie J. Gadenne, MD

Sheila S. Galbraith, MD

Sharon F. Gardepe, MD

Luis A. Garza, MD, PhD

Henry Gasiorowski, MD

Michele E. Gasiorowski, MD

Juris Germanas, MD, PhD

Brian Gerondale, MD

Jennifer G. Gill, MD, PhD

Donald A. Glass, II, MD, PhD

Scott D. Glazer, MD

Linda Gold, MD

Ronald Goldner, MD

Samuel D. Goos, MD

Leslie Gray, MD

Kathleen J. Green, PhD

Lawrence Green, MD

Teri Greiling, MD, PhD

Douglas Grossman, MD, PhD

Rebat M. Halder, MD

Russell P. Hall, III, MD

Iltefat H. Hamzavi, MD

Julie Harper, MD

John E. Harris, MD, PhD

Tamia Harris-Tryon, MD, PhD

Corey L. Hartman, MD

Mara A. Haseltine, MD

Adelaide A. Hebert, MD

Yolanda R Helfrich, MD

Richard J. Herschaft, MD

Michele Hill, MD

Lori M. Hobbs, MD

Leisa Hodges, DO

Darryl S. Hodson, MD

Kristen E. Holland, MD

Martin S. Horn, MD

Meyer Horn, MD

Sharon L. Horton, MD

Gregory A. Hosler, MD, PhD

Jeffrey C. Houin, Jr., MD

Jen Huang, MD

James C. Huff, MD

Stephen R. Humphrey, MD

Dori Lee Hunt, MD

Francis W. Iacobellis, MD

Abel Jarell, MD

Beverly A. Johnson, MD

Kathleen M. Joyce, MD

Kathleen W. Judge, MD

Teri A. Kahn, MD, MPH

Robert E. Kalb, MD

Mohammed Kashani-Sabet, MD

Seth G. Kates, MD

Matthew Keller, MD

Margaret Ann Kessler, MD

Maija Kiuru, MD, PhD

Brett Krasner, MD

Jennifer Krejci-Manwaring, MD

James Krell, MD

Carol L. Kulp-Shorten, MD

Shawn G. Kwatra, MD

Pui-Yan Kwok, MD, PhD

Leah Lalor, MD

Nikolajs Lapins, MD

Brenda C. LaTowsky, MD

Delphine J. Lee, MD, PhD

Jessica Lee

Joseph I. Lee, MD

Wei-Li S. Lee, PhD

Mark D. Lehman, MD

Julia S. Lehman, MD

Joyce A. Lender, MD

Ethan A. Lerner, MD, PhD

Marc Levin, MD

David Levine, MD

Peggy B. Liao, MD

Wennie C. Liao, MD

Lawrence M. Lieblich, MD

Sherri A. Long, MD

John C. Maize, Jr., MD

Aaron Mangold, MD

Mario Maruthur, MD

Stephen H. Mason, MD

Julie Maughan, MD

Damon V. Mauldin, MD

Josephine McAllister, MD

Barbara E. McAlpine, MD

Jeffrey L. Messenger, MD

Lloyd S. Miller, MD, PhD

Ardalan Minokadeh, MD

Ginat Wintermeyer Mirowski, DMD, MD

Charlotte E. Modly, MD

Charles Moon, MD

Julie Anne Moore, MD

Robert F. Moreland, Jr., MD

Andrea Morris, MD

Alan N. Moshell, MD

Christen M. Mowad, MD

John C. Murray, MD

Peggy S. Myung, MD, PhD

Krisztian Nemeth, MD

Elizabeth Nietert, MD

Megan H. Noe, MD, MPH, MSCE

Jeffrey North, MD

Christopher I. Obeime, MD

Robert L. Ochs, MD

Ginette A. Okoye, MD

Edit Olasz Harken, MD

Susana M. Ortiz-Urda, MD, PhD

Nicole Owens, MD

So Yeon Paek, MD

Elizabeth H. Page, MD

Robert N. Page, MD

Steven Partillo, MD

Kappa Peddy, MD

Alice P. Pentland, MD

Joseph C. Pierson, MD

Ronald B. Prussick, MD

Long T. Quan, MD, PhD

Abrar A. Qureshi, MD, MPH

Francisco Ramirez-Valle, MD, PhD

Steven Rasmussen, MD

Suraj G. Reddy, MD

Ronald E. Reece, MD

Rachel Reina, MD

Jack S. Resneck, Jr., MD

Frankie G. Rholdon, MD

Amber Robbins, MD

Leslie Robinson-Bostom, MD

Jason J. Romero, MD

Gretchen Roth, MD

Beth S. Ruben, MD

Sun Young Ruggeri, MD

John F. Rupp, MD

James P. Russell, MD

Thomas J. Russell, MD

Dana L. Sachs, MD

Jamal Z. Saleh, MD

Julio Sartori Valinotti, MD, FAAD

Daniel N. Sauder, MD

Leah Schammel, MD

Lawrence C. Scherrer, MD, PhD

Elys Scheuer, MD

Rachel A. Schleichert, MD

Paul I. Schneiderman, MD

Steven Schuckit, MD

Stanley V. Schwartz, MD

David Semler, MD

Sarah K. Short Sarbacker, MD

Marshall J. Shuler, MD

David L. Shupp, MD

Guillermo R. Sicard, MD

Burton E. Silver, MD

David Simkin, MD

Cory L. Simpson, MD, PhD

Eric L. Simpson, MD, MCR

Robert A. Skrokov, MD

Carol C. Slover, MD

Robert A. Snyder, MD

Jeffrey M. Sobell, MD

Milton D. Soderberg, MD

George Sonnier, MD

Nicholas A. Soter, MD

Ursula Stanton-Hicks, MD

Jennifer A. Stein, MD, PhD

Seth R. Stevens, MD

Allison Stocker, MD

Kathleen S. Stokes, MD

Junko Takeshita, MD

James S. Taylor, MD

Valencia D. Thomas, MD

John M. Tieman, MD

Mary M. Tomayko, MD, PhD

Charles B. Toner, MD

Mr. Ly Tran

Mark C. Udey, MD, PhD

Marta J. Van Beek, MD, MPH

Abby Van Voorhees, MD

Matthew D. Vesely, MD, PhD

Nahid Vidal, MD

Ruth Ann Vleugels, MD, MPH

Justin Vujevich, MD

Jason B. Waldinger, MD

Lisa C. Walker, MD

Susan D. Wall, MD

Karolyn A. Wanat, MD

Scott D. Warren, MD

Carl Washington, MD

Jeffery Weeks, MD

Jeffrey M. Weinberg, MD

Michael J. Wells, MD

Stephen Werth, MD

Michael J. White, MD

Michael B. Whitlow, MD, PhD

Carilyn Wieland, MD

Michael G. Wilkerson, MD

Carmen M. Williams, MD

Nancy S. Wolfin, MD

John H. Wollner, MD

Joy C. Wu, DO

Patricia P. Wyhinny, MD

Ashley Wysong, MD, MS

Yuelin Xu, MD

Cynthia B. Yalowitz, MD

Joseph J. Zaladonis, Jr., MD

Mark J. Zalla, MD

Eugene G. Zappi, MD

Nathalie C. Zeitouni, MD

John A. Zic, MD

Jonathan R. Zirn, MD

2023 Leaders Society

The Foundation is grateful for the support of our 2023 Leaders Society. We are honored to acknowledge their support online and in print with the May 2024 Dermatology Times issue [PDF].

 

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2022 Leaders Society

The Foundation is grateful for the support of our 2022 Leaders Society. We are honored to acknowledge their support online and in print with the August 2023 Dermatology Times issue [PDF].

 

 

 

 

2021 Leaders Society

The Foundation is grateful for the support of our 2021 Leaders Society. We are honored to acknowledge their support online and in print with the May 2022 Dermatology Times issue [PDF].

 

 

 

 

2020 Leaders Society

The Foundation is grateful for the support of our 2020 Leaders Society. We are honored to acknowledge their support online and in print with the May 2021 Dermatology Times issue [PDF].

Together we help each other move the specialty forward. There is no such thing as a small contribution. When we unite, we bring our collective power to impact change benefiting us all.

Take an Active Role

The DF is the leading private funding source for skin disease research and career development of physicians and scientists in dermatology. With your support, the DF’s provides research awards and education opportunities to develop and retain tomorrow’s teachers and researchers, enabling advancements in patient care. Promising physicians and scientists go on to uncover new knowledge in all areas of the specialty, with the Foundation’s awards. Their innovative, groundbreaking research benefits all dermatologists. It is what strengthens the specialty, and leads to new concepts about skin disease and cutting-edge treatments.

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