Avery LaChance, MD, MPH, is a dermatologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where she serves as the dermatology department’s Director of Health Policy and Advocacy and Director of the Connective Tissue Disease Clinic. She graduated from Middlebury College with a BA in Japanese Studies and received her MD, MPH from University of Connecticut School of Medicine. During her MPH year, she drafted legislation to ban tanning for minors in CT and then served as a key advocate for the bill, which passed and was signed into law that year. Dr. LaChance completed an internship in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. During this year, she also completed a six-week internship at the Office of the Surgeon General, where she worked on federal skin cancer prevention initiatives in the wake of the Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent Skin Cancer. Subsequently, she trained in dermatology at Harvard Medical School, and in her final year, she served as the chief resident. Dr. LaChance is on the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Academy of Dermatology and New England Dermatological Society. She is a member of committees of the American Academy of Dermatology as well as the Massachusetts Medical Society. Dr. LaChance is an Assistant Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School, where she teaches medical students, residents, and fellows and conducts research on connective tissue disease and health policy.

Dr. Victoria Barbosa is an Associate Professor of Dermatology at the University of Chicago where she serves as Director of the Hair Loss Program and Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Section of Dermatology. She is an expert in the areas of alopecia and in treating skin diseases in people of color.

She currently serves as President of the Skin of Color Society, a professional dermatological association, and Vice-President of the Illinois Dermatological Society. She is also a past president of the Chicago Dermatological Society. Dr. Barbosa is passionate about nurturing others on the path to being a physician and is quite involved with the Pritzker students. She serves on the Executive Committee of the Pritzker School of Medicine Admissions Committee and is a Lewis Society Career Advisor.

Dr. Barbosa previously worked as a vice president in research and development at L’Oréal USA where she built and directed the L’Oréal Institute for Ethnic Hair and Skin Research, a one-of-a-kind research facility devoted to understanding the differences in hair and skin of people of different ethnicities. She then owned a successful private practice, Millennium Park Dermatology, for nine years before joining the faculty at the University of Chicago.

Dr. Barbosa holds a B.A. from Harvard College and an M.D. cum laude from the Yale University School of Medicine, where she was inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha, the national medical honor Society. She completed her internship in Internal Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital, her residency in dermatology at Yale, and was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Johns Hopkins. She earned a master’s degree in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management.

Robert T. Brodell, MD is tenured Professor and Chair of the Department of Pathology, Past Founding Chair of the Department of Dermatology, and Billy S Guyton MD Distinguished Professor at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. A graduate of Washington and Jefferson College ('75) and the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry ('79), he completed dermatology and dermatopathology training at Barnes Hospital (Washington University in St Louis). He was in solo private practice for 27 years in Warren, Ohio. Dr Bob has performed 2,007 lectures, directed 51 symposia, and produced 420 publications almost all with medical students and residents, 43 book chapters, 45 poster presentations, and has written three books: The Diagnosis and Treatment of Warts: An Evidence Based Approach (2003); Tips and Tricks in Procedural Dermatology (2019); and, Dermatology in Rural Settings -- Organizational, Clinical, and Socioeconomic Perspectives.

Other service to dermatology:

Editor-in-chief of Practice Update: Dermatology (Elsevier) (2013-present); Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) (2019-present); American Board of Dermatology (ABD) (2003-12) and ABD President (2011-12); American Dermatological Association (2003-present), Secretary-Treasurer (2017-21) and President (2021-22); American Academy of Dermatology Board of Directors (2012-16); Dermatology Residency Review Committee (RRC) of American Board of Medical Specialties (2012-19); Council of Faculty and Specialty Societies (CFAS) of the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) Senior Representative, University of Mississippi Medical Center, (2020-present).

Honors and awards: Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha, the American Association of Medical Colleges/Pfizer Medical Humanities Initiative Humanism in Medicine Award (1999); American Cancer Society St. George National Award for Distinguished and Exemplary Leadership (2003); ACS National Relay For Life Hall of Fame (2005); the AAD Thomas G. Pearson, EdD, Memorial Education Award (2018); Honorary Member, AAD (2023); AAD Presidential Citations (2019 & 2022), and Dermatology Foundation Practitioner of the Year Award (2024).

Dr. Jennifer Tan is an experienced dermatologist with dual board-certification in Dermatology and Pediatric Dermatology. She has dedicated her career to high-quality patient care, clinical innovation, and community health and enjoys providing dermatologic care to patients of all ages.

Dr. Tan graduated with Distinction in Research from the BA/MD Program at Rutgers – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and completed her dermatology residency program at Harvard Medical School before completing a fellowship in Pediatric Dermatology at Boston Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Tan spent nearly 10 years on teaching faculty at Harvard Medical School, working at multiple institutions in Boston. During this time, she co-founded the Harvard Dermatology-Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program (BHCHP) collaboration and served as Director of Pediatric Dermatology and Community Outreach at BWH. Dr. Tan is passionate about medical education and community health and currently maintains an academic appointment at MGH, BHCHP, and Harvard Medical School, where she continues to be involved in the Harvard Dermatology-BHCHP collaboration.

Additionally, Dr. Tan is a respected expert in the areas of community dermatology and homeless medicine and has made research contributions through publications in major dermatology journals. She has been an invited speaker at national and international meetings and has been fortunate to receive several prestigious awards.

Dr. Esther Freeman is an Associate Professor of Dermatology at the Harvard Medical School, Director of Global Health Dermatology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Director of Clinical Innovation and Education at the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Global Health, and Vice Chair of the International Foundation for Dermatology (International League of Dermatologic Societies).

Dr. Freeman is a dermato-epidemiologist who is nationally and internationally recognized for her work on infectious diseases, global health dermatology, and clinical guideline methodology. She has worked to improve healthcare, especially those affected by HIV, in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. She is a consultant to the World Health Organization in the area of HIV-associated skin disease and serves on the WHO Steering Committee and the WHO Guideline Development Group. In response to COVID-19, she developed the world’s largest registry on COVID-19 dermatologic manifestations, which has since evolved to include other emerging infections such as Mpox and soon Drug-resistant dermatophytes.

Dr. Freeman is the co-founder of the International Alliance for Global Health Dermatology (GLODERM), an international organization dedicated to promoting skin health worldwide through enhanced access to care, training, and advocacy.

Dr. Adena Rosenblatt is a pediatric dermatologist at the University of Chicago and the Dermatology Residency Program Director. She completed her MD/PhD at University of Miami, Dermatology Residency at University of Chicago and Pediatric Dermatology Fellowship at Lurie's Children's Hospital/Northwestern University. She is the Chair of the Dermatology PD Steering Committee through the Association of Professors in Dermatology and Secretary/Treasurer of the Organization for Program Directors Association.

I have been a practicing dermatologist for approximately 15 years. I immigrated from India with my parents in 1981 and grew up in central Illinois. I received my undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign in 1999 and completed medical school at Southern Illinois University in Springfield IL in 2004. I spent one year as a clinical research fellow at the Minneapolis VA Dermatology Clinic and completed my dermatology residency in 2009. I worked in private practice for 5 years in Seattle, WA, then transitioned to academic dermatology, coming back to my residency program and serving as faculty for 8 years, the latter 5 spent as Program Director. I also served in the role of Vice Chair for Health Equity for the Department of Internal Medicine at SIU. I currently serve as general dermatology faculty at Loyola University Medical Center and the Stritch School of Medicine and am involved nationally in DEI initiatives and in mentorship of medical students, predominantly those who are underrepresented in medicine. I speak at residency programs and medical school on unconscious bias, racism in medicine, health disparities, particularly those that affect dermatology, and advancing diversity, inclusion and equity in dermatology.

Alison Lee is the co-founder of the Alopecia Justice League (AJL), a national alopecia areata education and advocacy organization. As AJL’s co-founder, she oversees its legislative advocacy efforts, medical advisory board, and patient pen pal program. Recently, she was selected to represent the National Alopecia Areata Foundation on Capitol Hill and helped secure Senator Gilibrand’s co-sponsorship for a cranial prosthetic bill. The AJL has been featured in USA Today, Healthline, and Refinery 29. Lee has had alopecia universals for thirteen years. She is an incoming freshman at Harvard University and resides in New York City.