HSF - Medical & Scientific Advisory Board (HS)

HSF MSAB

Richard L. Gallo (USA)
Gregor Jemec (Denmark)
Ichiro Kurokawa (Japan)
James J. Leyden (USA)
Lynette J. Margesson (USA)
W.H. Irwin McLean (UK)
Ralf Paus (Germany)
Jean Revuz (France)
Jan von der Werth (UK)
Christos Zouboulis (Germany)

The members of the HSF Medical & Scientific Advisory Board graciously donate their time and expertise in support of patients with Hidradenitis Suppurativa. Their contributions to the HSF will be instrumental in developing a successful international movement to promote HS research and management. For more information about the MSAB, please contact msab@hs-foundation.org

CHAIR, Director of Basic Research
Dr. Ralf Paus
Professor of Dermatology and Experimental Dermatology
Head of Experimental Dermatology
Dept. of Dermatology
University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein
Campus Lübeck, University of Lübeck
Ratzeburger Allee 160
D-23538 Lübeck, Germany Download CV

VICE CHAIR, Director of Clinical Research
Dr. Christos C. Zouboulis
Professor of Dermatology and Venereology
Director, Departments of Dermatology and Immunology
Dessau Medical Center
Auenweg 38, 06847
Dessau, Germany Download CV

MEMBERS, HSF Medical & Scientific Advisory Board

Dr. Richard L. Gallo (USA)
Richard L. Gallo, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Chief of the Division of Dermatology, UCSD, is a leading investigator in the field of skin research. He received his medical training at the University of Rochester, where he also received his PhD in Radiation Biology and Biophysics. Following an internship in Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Gallo trained at Harvard for clinical Dermatology and completed a post-doctoral fellowship there in Developmental Biology. Following three years as Assistant Professor of Dermatology at Harvard, Rich was recruited to UC San Diego in 1999 as Associate Professor in Medicine and Pediatrics. His research focuses on the role of the innate immune system in skin health and disease, focusing on antimicrobial peptides and aspects of the interaction of the skin with the immune system. He has contributed several landmark observations to the field of Dermatology including the first description of an antimicrobial peptide in mammalian skin, the first demonstration that mammals depend on antimicrobial peptides for defense against infection, and the first association of a human disease (atopic eczema) with a defect in antimicrobial peptide production. His work has been seen in some of the most prestigious scientific and medical journals such as Nature and The New England Journal of Medicine. He is currently associate editor of Journal of Dermatologic Science and European Journal of Dermatology as well as Editor of a new textbook, Antimicrobial Peptides in Health and Human Disease. His work is well supported by grants from the NIH, the Veterans Administration, and private foundations seeking to understand the causes of Psoriasis and Rosacea. Dr. Gallo's clinical practice is located at the VA Medical Center and UCSD. Link to publications on PubMed (NCBI)

Dr. Gregor Jemec (Denmark)
Associate Professor, Founding Chairman
Dept. of Dermatology
Roskilde Hospital
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Dr. Ichiro Kurokawa (Japan)
Lecturer, Associate Professor
Department of Dermatology
Mie University Graduate School of Medicine
Tsu, Mie, Japan
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Dr. James J. Leyden (USA)
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Department of Dermatology
3600 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Dr. Lynette J. Margesson (USA)
Dr. Margesson is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Medicine (Dermatology) at Dartmouth Medical School. She holds vulvar clinics at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center monthly in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and she works regularly with Dr. Elizabeth Stewart, a gynecologist specializing in vulvar disease, near Boston. Very active in vulvar disease teaching, lecturing locally, nationally and internationally, she is active in the International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal Disease (ISSVD) and teaches regularly at the American Academy of Dermatology and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology meetings. She is the author of two textbooks on vulvar disease and has contributed chapters to several others. She received her medical degree from University of Western Ontario in 1970 and finished her Fellowship in Dermatology in 1975. She was on teaching staff at Queens University from 1976 until 1997 when she moved with her dermatologist husband to New Hampshire.She started the first vulvar specialty clinic in Canada at Queen’s University in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Her vulvar teaching clinics are in addition to a busy private dermatology practice.

W.H. Irwin McLean (UK)
Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow & Professor of Human Genetics
Head of Human Genetics Research
Director, Epithelial Genetics Group
Human Genetics Unit
Division of Pathology and Neuroscience
Ninewells Hospital, University of Dundee, Scotland

Dr. Jean Revuz (France)
Dr. Jean Revuz is the head of the Department of Dermatology, Henri Mondor Hospital Creteil France, and the author of more than 300 original publications. Dr. Revuz was born in Douai in the north of France in 1938, educated in Istanbul, Turkey, Versailles and Paris, and studied under Robert Degos, Saint-Louis Hospital. In 1970, under the tutelage of Rene Touraine, Dr. Revuz founded the Creteil Department of Dermatology. Download CV

Dr. Jan von der Werth (UK)
Consultant Dermatologist
Conquest Hospital Hastings
St. Leonards-on-Sea
East Sussex, United Kingdom

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