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M.S. in Skin Biology and Dermatological Sciences
Robert Kirsner MD

Robert Scott Kirsner, M.D., Ph.D.

Chairman and Harvey Blank Professor
Clinical Profile | Publications
Biography: Dr. Kirsner is Chairman and the endowed Harvey Blank Professor in the Dr. Phillip Frost Dermatology in the Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery and Professor of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He is Chief of Dermatology at the University of Miami Hospital and Clinics and Jackson Memorial Hospital and directs the University...
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Alyx Rosen

Alyx Cali Rosen Aigen, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery
Clinical Profile
Biography: Alyx Rosen Aigen, M.D., is an Assistant Professor of Dermatology at the Dr. Phillip Frost Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery. She received a bachelor’s of engineering from Duke University where she was inducted into the Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society. She received her medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. Following medical...
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Tatsuka Akiyama

Tasuku Akiyama, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery
Publications
Biography: Tasuku Akiyama, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Dr. Phillip Frost Department of Dermatology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He obtained his Ph.D. in Pharmacology from Toyama University and pursued postdoctoral training in the Department of Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior at UC Davis. Dr. Akiyama was a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow and the...
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Barbara Bedogni, Ph.D.

Barbara Bedogni, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Publications
Biography: My research career has centered on the understanding of tumor-specific traits that make cancer therapeutically challenging. As a graduate student in the department of Pathology at the Catholic University in Rome, Italy, I studied the role of oxygen radicals and antioxidant enzymes in cancer growth and progression. After my graduation, I landed a position in the laboratory...
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Enzo Berardesca, M.D.

Enzo Berardesca, M.D.

Research Professor of Dermatology & Cutaneous Surgery
Publications
Biography: Enzo Berardesca, MD, is research professor at the Phillip Frost Dept of Dermatology, University of Miami. He has been Director of Clinical Dermatology at the San Gallicano Dermatological Institute, Rome, Italy from 2001 - 2017.

Dr. Berardesca obtained his training at the University of Pavia and received the M.D. degree in 1979. He served as assistant...
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Shasa Hu

Shasa Hu, M.D.

Associate Professor of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery
Clinical Profile
Biography: Dr. Shasa Hu is a board-certified dermatologist and Director of Cosmetic Division at the at the University of Miami Dr. Phillip Frost Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery. Dr Hu has years of experience in treating patients with a wide range of rejuvenation needs and teaching residents and students. She has lectured nationally and internationally on high risk...
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Ivan Jozic, Ph.D.

Ivan Jozic, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery
Publications
Biography: Ivan Jozic, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Dr. Phillip Frost Department of Dermatology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He obtained his Ph.D. in Cell Biology from Florida International University and followed this with postdoctoral training in the Wound Healing Research Program at UM prior to joining the faculty in 2019. Dr. Jozic was a 3M...
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Hideki Mochizuki

Hideki Mochizuki, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery

Biography: Over the past 20 years, my research has significantly contributed to the advancement of our knowledge about the brain mechanism of itch: (1) Discovery of the top-down itch modulation system in the brain, (2) the identification of representative brain regions associated with itch, (3) the identification of itch specific brain region (i.e., the precuneus/posterior cingulate...
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Brian Morrison

Brian William Morrison, M.D.

Associate Professor of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery
Clinical Profile
Biography: Dr. Morrison is a Miami local. He obtained his undergraduate training at the University of Florida, medical degree at New York University and completed dermatology residency here at the University of Miami. He has active roles in clinical care and education, working at Jackson Memorial Hospital, the University of Miami and the Miami VA.
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Keyvan Nouri

Keyvan Nouri, M.D., M.B.A.

Professor of Dermatology, Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology & Surgery
Clinical Profile
Biography: Dr. Nouri completed a combined undergraduate and medical education program at Boston University in 1993, and went on to pursue a dermatology residency at the University of Miami. He completed his procedural dermatology fellowship in Mohs Micrographic Surgery, Dermatologic, Laser, and Cosmetic Surgery at New York University. As an alternative to the executive MBA, he took...
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Irena Pastar

Irena Pastar, Ph.D.

Research Professor of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery
Publications
Biography: Dr. Irena Pastar received doctoral degree in molecular microbiology at the University of Belgrade, followed by postdoctoral trainings at The Rockefeller University and Cornell University Weill Medical College, Hospital for Special Surgery. She was an Assistant Professor at the New York University School of Medicine before joining the University of Miami faculty in 2011....
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Ralf Paus

Ralf Paus, M.D., D.Sc., F.R.S.B.

Research Professor of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery
Publications
Biography: Born, raised, and schooled in a medieval town in Germany (Münster), I have studied medicine at the Universities of Würzburg/Germany, Vienna/Austria, and Berlin (FUB)/Germany. After performing my MD thesis work as visiting student at USF/Tampa and doing my internship/house officer training in Switzerland (University Hospitals Basel and Zürich), during my...
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Marjana Tomic

Marjana Tomic-Canic, Ph.D.

Professor of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery

Biography: Dr Tomic-Canic is internationally recognized scientist, inventor and leader in a field of skin biology, with particular focus on understanding mechanisms that control tissue repair and regeneration. She has over 25 years of experience and has authored over 150 peer-reviewed papers in her fields of research. Dr Tomic-Canic completed her doctoral and postdoctoral training...
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Tongyu Cao Wikramanayake

Tongyu Cao Wikramanayake, Ph.D.

Research Associate Professor of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery
Publications
Biography: Dr. Wikramanayake received her Ph.D. in Genes and Development from the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. She developed her expertise in skin and hair biology and genetics through postdoctoral training at Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, TX) and the Pacific Biosciences Research Center, University of Hawaii-Manoa (Honolulu, HI). She is currently a Research...
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