Medical Advisory Council
The charge of the medical advisory council (MAC) is to advise the Foundation's Board members on medical and scientific matters. It comprises a diverse international and interdisciplinary group of medical and scientific experts. The MAC is advisory only, and receives no compensation for its valuable voluntary service.
Ali K. Abu-Alfa, MD (Board Member)
Professor of Medicine
Head, Division of Nephrology
American University Beirut
Beirut, Lebanon
Jihad Alhariri, MD
Assistant Professor of Dermatology
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD. USA
Soon Bahrami, MD
Assistant Professor of Dermatopathology
University of Louisville School of Medicine
Louisville, KY. USA
Pedro W. Baron, MD
Professor of Surgery
Surgical Director, Pediatric and Adult Liver Transplant
Loma Linda University Medical Center
Loma Linda, CA. USA
Charles L. Bennett, MD PhD MPP
Josie M. Fletcher Professor
Chairman, Center for Medication Safety
South Carolina College of Pharmacy
Columbia, SC. USA
Timothy G. Berger, MD
Professor of Dermatology
Director of Dermatology Clinics
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA. USA
Jag Bhawan, MD
Professor of Dermatology and Pathology
Head of Dermatopathology
Boston University School of Medicine
Boston, MA. USA
Georg Bongartz, MD
Professor of Radiology
Head of General Radiology
University Hospital Basel
Basel, Switzerland
Marcus W. Bosenberg, MD PhD
Associate Professor of Dermatology and Pathology
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT. USA
Philip J. Boyer, MD, PhD
Clinical Associate Professor of Pathology
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC. USA
Irwin M. Braverman, MD (Board Member)
Professor of Dermatology
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT. USA
Richard Bucala, MD PhD
Professor of Medicine (Rheumatology), Pathology, and Epidemiology and Public Health
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT. USA
Jeffrey P. Callen, MD
Professor of Medicine, Dermatology
Chairman, Division of Dermatology
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY. USA
Glenn M. Chertow, MD MPH
Professor of Medicine, Nephrology
Chief, Division of Nephrology
Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA. USA
Constantina Chrysochou, PhD
Locum Nephrology Consultant
Salford Royal Hospital
Manchester, United Kingdom
Shawn E. Cowper, MD
Associate Professor of Dermatology and Pathology
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT. USA
Mario Del Rosso, MD
Professor of General Pathology
University of Florence
Florence, Italy
April C. Deng, MD PhD
Professor of Pathology
Director of Dermatopathology
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, MA. USA
Hal C. Dietz, MD
Victor A. McKusick Professor of Medicine and Genetics of Pathology
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD. USA
Arjang Djamali, MD
Professor of Medicine & Surgery
Chief of Nephrology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI. USA
Jeremy S. Duffield, MD PhD
Affiliate Associate Professor of Medicine, Nephrology
University of Washington
Seattle, WA. USA
Richard L. Edelson, MD
Aaron B. and Marguerite Lerner Professor of Dermatology
Chair, Department of Dermatology
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT. USA
Jack A. Elias, MD
Dean, Warren Alpert Medical School
Brown University
Providence, RI. USA
Dirk M. Elston, MD
Chair, Department of Dermatology and Dermatological Surgery
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, SC. USA
Neal D. Epstein, MD
NHLBI, National Institute of Health
Bethesda, MD. USA
Vincent Falanga, MD
Professor of Dermatology and Biochemistry
Boston University
Chairman of Dermatology, Roger Williams Medical Center
Providence, RI. USA
Agnes B. Fogo, MD
Professor of Pathology, Medicine, and Pediatrics
John L. Shapiro Chair of Pathology
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Nashville, TN. USA
Pamela G. Freeman, MD
Rheumatology Associates of Central Florida
Orlando, FL. USA
Scott L. Friedman, MD
Fishberg Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Liver Diseases
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY. USA
Thilo Gambichler, MD
Adjunct Professor of Dermatology
Ruhr-University Bochum
Bochum, Germany
Jack Gauldie, MD PhD
Professor of Pathology and Molecular Medicine
Director Centre for Gene Therapeutics
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Michael Girardi, MD
Professor of Dermatology
Director, Dermatology Residency Program
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT. USA
Richard H. Gomer, PhD
Professor of Biology
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX. USA
Samardeep Gupta, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Rheumatology Clinical Services and Medical Education (VA)
University of Michigan Medical School
Ann Arbor, MI. USA
Anna K. Haemel, MD
Assistant Professor, Dermatology
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA. USA
John L. Haylor, MD
Principal Lecturer, Pharmacology
University of Central Lancashire
Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Erica L. Herzog, MD PhD
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Pulmonology
Director, Translational Lung Research Program
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT. USA
Whitney A. High, MD JD MEng
Associate Professor of Dermatology and Pathology
Director of Dermatopathology
University of Colorado, Denver
Denver, CO. USA
Lauren C. Hughey, MD
Village Dermatology
Birmingham, AL. USA
Emanuel Kanal, MD
Professor of Radiology
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, PA. USA
Jonathan Kay, MD
Professor of Medicine, Rheumatology
Director of Clinical research, Rheumatology
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, MA. USA
Usamah S. Kayyali, PhD MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston, MA. USA
Eleanor A. Knopp, MD
Dermatopathologist
Kaiser Permanente Bellevue Medical Center
Seattle, WA. USA
Phillip H. Kuo, MD PhD
Professor of Radiology
Chief of Nuclear Medicine, Director of PET/CT
University of Arizona Health Sciences
Tucson, AZ. USA
Robert Lafyatis, MD
Professor of Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
Boston, MA. USA
Anne E. Laumann, MBChB, MRCP(UK)
Professor of Dermatology
Director of Collagen Vascular Disorders Clinic
Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL. USA
Philip E. LeBoit, MD
Professor of Pathology and Dermatology
Co-Director UCSF Dermatopathology Service
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA. USA
Christine U. Lee, MD PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiology
College of Medicine
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN. USA
Tim Leiner, MD PhD
Professor of Radiology
Utrecht University Medical Center
Utrecht, The Netherlands
Diego R. Martin, MD PhD
Professor of Radiology
Chair, Department of Medical Imaging
University of Arizona College of Medicine
Tucson, AZ. USA
Frank H. Miller, MD
Professor of Radiology
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL. USA
Tiffani Milless, MD
Dermatopathologist
Iowa Pathology Associates
Des Moines, IA. USA
Gilbert W. Moeckel, MD PhD
Professor of Pathology
Director of Renal Pathology and Electron Microscopy Laboratory
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT. USA
Sameh K. Morcos, MD
Emeritus Professor of Diagnostic Imaging
University of Sheffield
Sheffield, United Kingdom
Desiree E. Morgan, MD
Professor of Radiology
Medical Director of MRI
University of Alabama
Birmingham, AL. USA
Rosalynn M. Nazarian, MD (Board Member)
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA. USA
Susanne Nicholas, MD PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Nephrology and Endocrinology
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA. USA
Mark A. Perazella, MD
Professor of Medicine (Nephrology)
Director, Yale Physician Associate Program
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT. USA
Richard P. Phipps, PhD
Dean's Professor of Environmental Medicine
Director, Lung Biology and Disease Program
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Rochester, NY. USA
Mark R. Pittelkow, MD
Chair and Professor of Dermatology
Mayo Clinic Arizona
Phoenix, AZ. USA
Martin R. Prince, MD PhD
Professor of Radiology
Chief of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, New York Hospital
Columbia and Cornell Universities
New York, NY. USA
Carolyn Rambus, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT. USA
Howard S. Robin, MD
Medical Director, Dermtech Laboratory
La Jolla, CA. USA
Giles H. Roditi, MBChB
Honorary Clinical Associate Professor
University of Glasgow
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Georges Saab, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Nephrology
Washington University
St. Louis, MO. USA
Paul I. Schneiderman, MD
Clinical Professor of Dermatology
Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine
Syosset, NY. USA
Erik M. Shapiro, PhD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI. USA
Michio Shimizu, MD
Professor of Pathology
Saitama Medical University
Saitama International Medical Center
Hidaka City, Saitama, Japan
Virginia Steen, MD
Professor of Medicine, Rheumatology
Director Rheumatology Fellowship Program
Georgetown University
Washington, DC. USA
Joanne Joo-Yeon Sung, MD PhD
Dermatopathologist
Kaiser Permanente Medical Group
Walnut Creek, CA. USA
Sundararaman Swaminathan, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Nephrology)
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Charlottesville, VA. USA
Victor J. Thannickal, MD
Professor of Medicine and Pathology
Director, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine
University of Alabama
Birmingham, AL. USA
Henrik S. Thomsen, MD
Professor of Radiology
Chair, Diagnostic Radiology
Copenhagen University Hospital
Herlev, Denmark
John Varga, MD (Board Member)
Hughes Professor of Medicine (Rheumatology)
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL. USA
Jeffrey C. Weinreb, MD
Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging
Director of MR Imaging
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT. USA
Dennis P. West, PhD
Vincent W. Foglia Family Research Professor of Dermatology
Director of Dermatopharmacology Program
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL. USA
Thomas A. Wynn, PhD
Senior Investigator, Immunopathogenesis Section
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD. USA