Dermatology Tweetorials – Faculty
Steven Chen
Steven Chen is a board-certified internist and dermatologist. He is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Chen earned his MD and an MPH from Johns Hopkins University. He then pursued residency training at Harvard, where he completed an Internal Medicine residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and a Dermatology residency in the Harvard Dermatology Program. Dr. Chen attends on both the dermatology and internal medicine services with a clinical and research interest in oncodermatology. He co-directs the Comprehensive Cutaneous Lymphoma Program at MGH and serves as an Associate Program Director for the Harvard dermatology residency program.
Dr. Steven R. Feldman
Dr. Steven R. Feldman is Professor of Dermatology, Pathology, and Social Sciences & Health Policy at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He leads the Center for Dermatology Research, a health services research center whose mission is to improve the care of patients with skin disease. Dr. Feldman’s chief clinical interest is psoriasis, a physically & psychosocially disabling chronic disease. His passion is to help guide how patients with psoriasis are treated. He served on the Medical Board of the National Psoriasis Foundation, was the Foundation’s 2019 Psoriasis Educator of the Year, and directed psoriasis education programs for the American Academy of Dermatology. According to Expertscape.com, Feldman has been rated among the top experts in the world on psoriasis, dermatology, and treatment adherence.
Feldman’s research has been published in over 1,500 Medline-referenced articles. In collaboration with other investigators, Feldman has done groundbreaking work on tanning and on patients’ adherence to their medication treatment regimens, transforming how physicians understand and enhance patients’ use of treatment for chronic skin diseases. He serves as editor of the Journal of Dermatological Treatment and the Journal of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery and as Chief Medical Editor of The Dermatologist magazine. He is author of the book Practical Ways to Improve Patients' Treatment Outcomes and the novel Bent Toward Justice (the audiobook version was narrated by Emmy Award winner Ed Asner). Since 2021, Feldman has served as Senior Advisor for Dermatology & Patient Adherence to Sensal Health, developing, testing, and implementing new technologies for assessing and improving patients’ adherence to treatment.
Juan Carlos Ivancevich, M
Dr. Juan Carlos Ivancevich, MD, is specialist in Allergy and Immunology. He is currently Head of the Allergy and Immunology Service of the Santa Isabel Clinic, in Buenos Aires, Associate Professor of Immunology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University del Salvador, Chair of the ARIA initiative (Allergic Rhinitis and its impact on Asthma) n Argentina, member at large of Interasma (Global Asthma Association) and editor of its website, member of the Editorial Board of the World Allergy Organization website, and editor of the Latin American Society of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology website. He has been President of the Argentine Association of Allergy and Immunology, Vice-President of the Latin American Society of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and member of the Board of Directors of the World Allergy Organization, co-authored more than 60 research papers published in international peer-reviewed journals.
Brian S. Kim, MD, MTR, FAAD
Brian S. Kim, MD, MTR, FAAD is Vice Chair of Research at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Director of the Dr. Mark Lebwohl Center for Neuroinflammation & Itch. Dr. Kim holds joint appointments in Dermatology, PRIISM and FBI. Dr. Kim is one of the top researchers worldwide in the study of patients with itch and other skin conditions. The overall goal of his research program is to understand the regulatory mechanisms that control neuroimmune interactions at the skin barrier surface. His research examines how immune responses interface with the sensory nervous system to regulate inflammation, sensation, and immunity.
Jonathan I Silverberg, MD, PhD, MPH
Jonathan Silverberg is a Professor of Dermatology at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, DC. He is the Director of Clinical Research and Contact Dermatitis. Dr. Silverberg’s area of clinical subspecialty is inflammatory skin disease, particularly atopic and contact dermatitis. He has extensive experience in the advanced management of atopic dermatitis, contact dermatitis, hand eczema, chronic itch, psoriasis, hidradenitis and many other chronic inflammatory skin disorders. He is also a national expert in allergy patch testing, phototesting and photopatch testing. Dr. Silverberg’s research interests include the epidemiology of chronic and infectious diseases. He has published extensively on the epidemiology of chronic inflammatory skin diseases such as eczema, psoriasis and autoimmune blistering disorders as well infections such as COVID-19, measles, shingles, cellulitis and other skin and serious infections. Dr. Silverberg has also made major contributions to health services research, patient-reported outcome development, understanding comorbidities and burden of itch and inflammatory skin disease, advancing evidence-based dermatology, drug development, and clinical trial design. His publications include more than 1000 peer- reviewed articles, abstracts and book chapters. He is also the author of the Clinical Management of Atopic Dermatitis handbook (second edition published 2022).