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Retired November 2017

Ronald P. Rapini MD, was born in Akron, Ohio, and graduated from the University of Akron (B.S.) and The Ohio State University College of Medicine. He has been married to Mary Jo Rapini, a psychotherapist, since 1979.  He has three brothers, two daughters, and two grandchildren. He is currently the Distinguished Chernosky Professor and Chair of the Department of Dermatology at the University of Texas Medical at Houston, also serves as Chair of the Department of Dermatology at MD Anderson Cancer Center, and Professor of Pathology at both institutions.  He serves as Program Director for the Dermatology residency and a Dermatopathology Fellowship program. He has won many teaching awards, including the Nickel Award of the American Society of Dermatopathology in 2005. He also received the Founder’s Award from the ASDP in 2012. Dr Rapini was the recipient of the annual Robert Freeman Mentoring and Leadership award from the Texas Dermatological Society in 2013. He is past president of several organizations, including the American Board of Dermatology, the American Society of Dermatopathology, the American Society for Mohs Surgery, the Texas Dermatological Society, and the Houston Dermatological Society. He is the author of more than 300 abstracts, books, and journal articles (131 peer-reviewed), and has had more than 440 presentations at major state, national, and international meetings.  He was a former lead editor of the popular dermatology textbook for its first two editions, Dermatology (Elsevier), along with Jean Bolognia and Joseph Jorizzo. His popular single-authored Practical Dermatopathology textbook is one of the top-selling texts in the field.

Dr. Neal Bhatia is a board-certified dermatologist in San Diego, California.  He serves as Director of Clinical Dermatology at Therapeutics Clinical Research. He is as chief medical editor for Practical Dermatology.  He has a background in immunology and has interests in mechanisms of therapy, skin cancer, and medical dermatology.  Aside from teaching at medical conferences, he sits on several editorial boards and is an active teacher for dermatologists, industry, and patients.   

Markham C. Luke, MD, PhD is the Director of the Division of Therapeutic Performance (DTP) in the Office of Research and Standards, Office of Generic Drugs. DTP is responsible for facilitating pre-application development of generic drugs by conducting and promoting regulatory science research to establish standards to ensure therapeutic equivalence of new generic drug products. Markham has an MD and a PhD in Pharmacology from Johns Hopkins University and is a dermatologist by training.  Markham has research interests in dermatopharmacology, clinical pharmacology, clinical study design and endpoints assessment (including patient-reported outcomes) for medical, surgical, and aesthetic products and serves as consultant dermatologist to various parts of FDA.  Markham has been at FDA since 1998 serving various roles, including as the Lead Medical Officer for dermatology drugs, Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Director for the Office of Device Evaluation, and as Acting Director for Cosmetics.

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David E. Cohen, MD, MPH.Dr. Cohen is The Charles C. and Dorothea E. Harris Professor and Vice Chairman for Clinical Affairsfor the Ronald O Perelman Department of Dermatology of New York University School of Medicine and leads the Section on Occupational and Environmental Dermatology.  He joined the NYU faculty in 1994 and his work has concentrated on inflammatory skin diseases, cutaneous allergic and toxic reactions to exogenous and photo-reactive chemicals, and the interaction of environmental stressors on the skin.   He was empaneled by the Institute of Medicine to study the Federal Response to the Health Effects Associated with the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill.  He received CDC funding to develop abioterrorism preparedness plan for skin infections caused by Anthax for the federally mandated “Healthy People 2010 Goals for People Prepared for Emerging Threats.”  The New York City Department of Health has consulted with Dr. Cohen to evaluate the cutaneous effects of the World Trade Center attack; and he has worked with the National Institutes of Occupational Safety and Health to discover new allergens in the workplace.Dr. Cohen is Past President of the American Dermatological Association, and served as President of the American Contact Dermatitis Society, the Dermatology Section of the New York Academy of Medicine, and the New York Dermatological Association. He served as a founding board member for the American Acne and Rosacea society, and led the national guidelines of care for individuals with Latex allergy and served on the panel to establish the national guidelines of care for Atopic Dermatitis; both for the American Academy of Dermatology. He has authored 107 articles and 22 book chapters, and has lectured nationally and internationally on a variety of Dermatologic disorders.  He served on his community’s Board of Education for 9 years and as President for 2 years.  In October, 2016, he was awarded the title of Master Clinician, New York University’s highest honor for a clinician and is bestowed to a single physician in the medical center per year.  Dr. Cohen received his MD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Medicine, his Masters of Public Health at Columbia University, and served as an Intern at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, a Dermatology resident from the New York University Medical Center and a resident in Occupational and Environmental Medicine from Columbia University School of Public Health.