American Skin Association announces new medical advisory committee member, co-chair

The American Skin Association announced that Robert Modlin, MD, has become co-chair of its medical advisory committee.

Modlin, chief of the division of dermatology and professor of dermatology in the Department of Medicine and Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has served as a medical advisory committee member, according to a press release.

Angela Christiano, PhD, associate professor of molecular dermatology at Columbia University Medical Center in New York, has been named to the medical advisory committee, the release reported. Christiano’s research focuses on the study of inherited skin and hair disorders, and she has initiated a program of cellular transplantation and reprogramming for a broad spectrum of skin disorders, and a possible source of adult stem cells to regenerate other organs, according to the release.

“Dr. Christiano is a wonderful addition to our committee, which oversees the annual grant review and award process,” David Norris, MD, co-chair of the medical advisory committee. “I look forward to working with her and to leading the committee with our new co-chair, Dr. Modlin.”

“I would like to welcome our new committee member Dr. Christiano, whose affluent research experience in genetic therapies for skin and hair disease will complement the medial advisory committee during our grant review process,” Howard P. Milstein, chairman of the American Skin Association’s (ASA) board of directors, stated in the release.

The ASA has committed more than $15 million to advance dermatologic research since its inception in 1996, according to the release. The association is a collaboration of patients, families, advocates, physicians and scientists.

Reference: www.americanskin.org