About the Journal

Editor-in-Chief

Robert Dellavalle, MD, PhD, MSPH

Professor and Head, Department of Dermatology, University of Minnesota Medical School; Chief of Dermatology - Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center, and US Department of Veterans Affairs National Dermatology Program Director

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Dr. Dellavalle is the Dermatology Service Chief for the US Department of Veterans Affairs Eastern Colorado Health Care System. He serves as the Professor and Head of the Department of Dermatology at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He received undergraduate and master's degrees in philosophy at UCLA before matriculating from the MD/PhD Medical Scientist Training Program at the University of Chicago. He subsequently completed a dermatology residency, fellowship in dermatology research, and Master of Science in Public Health at the University of Colorado. Dr. Dellavalle is a funded skin cancer prevention investigator and has published over 300 PubMed indexed dermatology research articles. He serves as editor-in-chief of JMIR Dermatology and joint Co-ordinating Editor of Cochrane Skin.

Submissions are accepted via our web-based submission system

Dahlia Khajeei, PhD, MPH, BSc, ECM Certified, PROSCI Certified, CUT Certified, Managing Editor, JMIR Publications

Editorial Board Members/Section Editors

Raed Alhusayen, MBBS, MSc, FRCPC

Assistant Professor, Division of Dermatology, University of Toronto; Associate Scientist, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Canada

Dr. Alhusayen is a Clinician Investigator and Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto and Associate Scientist at Sunnybrook Research Institute. He is a past president of the Canadian Hidradenitis Suppurativa Foundation. He completed his dermatology residency and a fellowship in laser and procedural dermatology from the University of Ottawa. He also completed a master's in clinical epidemiology and a clinical fellowship in advanced medical dermatology at the University of Toronto. Dr. Alhusayen's clinical epidemiological research focuses on studying outcomes, comorbidities, and risk factors of inflammatory/autoimmune skin diseases. 

Kurt A. Ashack, MD, MHS

Assistant Professor, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, USA

Dr. Ashack is a private practice dermatologist at the Dermatology Associates of West Michigan in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. He completed his undergraduate studies at Hope College and a Master of Biomedical Science at Grand Valley State University. Dr. Ashack received his medical degree from Michigan State University College of Human Medicine and subsequently completed his dermatology training at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research interests include connective tissue diseases, epidemiology, dermatology training across the globe, factors associated with physician burnout, integrative dermatology, radiation therapy within dermatology, and melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers. Dr. Ashack believes strongly in mentorship and is currently the advisor for the dermatology interest group at Michigan State University CHM. Additionally, he published more than 40 papers in scientific journals prior to finishing his dermatology training. 

Ian S. Brooks, PhD

Research Scientist and Director, Center for Health Informatics, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA

Dr Brooks is the Director of the Center for Health Informatics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the WHO Collaborating Center for Information Systems for Health. He earned an MS in Applied and Engineering Physics from Cornell University and a PhD in Biochemistry from Bryn Mawr College. Previously the director of health sciences at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, his research focuses on the application of machine learning and artificial intelligence to data from structured and unstructured sources to understand the health of communities. Since 2014 he has been working to understand the burden of skin disease primarily through the analysis of patient discussions on social media.

David B. Buller, PhD

Senior Scientist and Director of Research, Klein Buendel, USA

David Buller, PhD is a Senior Scientist and Director of Research at Klein Buendel, Inc., a health communication research company in Golden, Colorado. Formerly, he was a Professor of Communication at the University of Arizona (1986-1997), a Senior Scientist at AMC Cancer Research Center (1997-2002); and the Harold Simmons Chair for Health Communication at the Cooper Institute (2002-2005). For over 30 years, Dr. Buller has tested health communication strategies for skin cancer prevention in schools, worksites, and community settings, focusing on individual sun protection practices and school and workplace sun safety policy. He has also examined public policy on indoor tanning restrictions, scale-up of sun safety education and policy interventions, impact of built-shade for sun protection, and sun safety interventions delivered over the latest communication technology such as smartphones and social media. Dr. Buller has contributed to the literature on the measurement of sun protection behavior and has been an expert consultant to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on skin cancer prevention in schools and public spaces. Dr. Buller’s research has been funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Environmental Protection Agency, and state governments. He has served on a number of extramural grant review teams for NIH and international health organizations. Dr. Buller is a fellow of the Society of Behavioral Medicine. He has published over 225 books, chapters, and articles on his research.

Sigrid Collier, MD, MPH

Division of Dermatology, University of Washington; VA Puget Sound Health Care System, USA

Dr. Collier is a board-certified dermatologist at the Puget Sound VA Health Care System and Acting Instructor in the Division of Dermatology at the University of Washington. Dr. Collier completed her MD training at the University of Texas Health Science Center of San Antonio and her MPH at the University of Texas School of Public Health. She went on to complete a combined residency in Internal Medicine and Dermatology at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Collier has specific expertise in global dermatology and tropical medicine. She has a Certificate of Knowledge in Clinical Tropical Medicine and Travelers' Health through the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and completed a Fogarty Global Health Research Fellowship through the Northern Pacific Global Health Research Fellows Training Consortium. Dr. Collier's ongoing research focuses on applying methods from implementation science to improve access to and quality of dermatologic care in underserved and vulnerable populations both in the United States and around the world. 

Dinesh Kumar Devaraj, MD

International Society of Teledermatology, Private Practice, India

Dinesh Kumar Devaraj has been a practicing Dermatologist since 2008 (based in Chennai, India). He completed his MBBS and MD from Bangalore Medical College & Research Institute, Bangalore, India. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, UK. Along with his clinical practice, he plays an active role in Medical Associations. He is currently the Secretary-General of the Indian Association of Dermatologists, Venereologists and Leprologists (2022-24) and the Secretary (Coordination and Inter-institutional Relations) of the International Society of Teledermatology. He has served as the Secretary-General of the Association of Cutaneous Surgeons (India) (2019-2021) and the Indian Society of Teledermatology (2013-2020). He is passionate about his work and conducts numerous awareness programs on skin care and prevention of topical steroid abuse/misuse among General Practitioners and the general public. He conceptualized the Virtual Skin Clinic, an online platform to provide distant Dermatological care to patients. His special interests are Dermatosurgery, Paediatric Dermatology, and Teledermatology. 

Cristian Gonzalez, MD

University of Texas Southwestern (UTSW) Medical Center, USA

Cristian Gonzalez is a PGY-4 dermatology resident at the University of Texas Southwestern (UTSW) Medical Center. He completed his medical degree at the University of Utah School of Medicine, where he was a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society. He completed a clinical research fellowship with Dr. Dellavalle and Dr. Walkosz at the University of Colorado. His research interests include tattoos, sun protection for minority populations, and cosmetic dermatology for medical purposes. His clinical interests include skin of color, pigmentation disorders, hair loss, skin cancer, and cosmetics. 

Susanne R. Gulliver, BA, MPH

Senior Epidemiologist, NewLab Clinical Research, Canada

Susanne Gulliver is an Epidemiologist from St. Johns, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. She is currently the Senior Epidemiologist and Research and Operations Manager at NewLab Clinical Research Inc, a firm specializing in real-world data, clinical trials, genetics and the epidemiology of immune-mediated disease in Dermatology. Her research interests include Hidradenitis Suppurativa, Psoriasis, real-world data, and biologic persistence. She is involved as a scientific advisor to several patient support groups, including PsoriasisNL and HS Heroes. She is also a member of the IDEOM Hidradenitis Suppurativa workgroup.

Carolyn Heckman, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Co-Leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, USA

Dr. Heckman is Co-Leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Program at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine. She earned her PhD in Counseling Psychology at the University of Iowa and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University in Health Psychology and Addictions. Dr. Heckman’s research focuses on indoor tanning and behavioral and digital interventions for skin cancer prevention and detection.

Ching-Chi Chi, MD, MMS, DPhil

Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taiwan

Professor Ching-Chi Chi is Professor of Dermatology and General Convenor for Evidence-Based Medicine of Chang Gung Memorial Hospitals. He is also a Distinguished Professor at Chang Gung University. Prof. Chi is the Editor-in-Chief of Dermatologica Sinica, Joint Co-ordinating Editor of Cochrane Skin, Associate Editor of British Journal of Dermatology, Editor of JMIR Dermatology, and Immediate Past President and Honorary Director of Taiwan Evidence-Based Medicine Association. He obtained his medical degree from Taipei Medical University and completed dermatology specialist training at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei. Prof. Chi went on to obtain a Master of Medical Science from the Chung Shan Medical University. Prof. Chi obtained a D.Phil. in Clinical Medicine from University of Oxford with a doctorate thesis entitled ‘Evidence-based assessment of the safety of topical corticosteroids in pregnancy’. He is passionate about evidence-based medicine and epidemiology and has authored over 190 articles, including 14 Cochrane reviews and 4 pan-European Dermatology Guidelines. Having published and is cited widely, Prof. Chi has received plenty of research awards including the 2021 Outstanding Research Award from the National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan and is selected by Stanford University and Elsevier BV as the 2020 and 2021 World’s Top 2% of Scientists.

William Guo, MD, BA

Resident Physician, Stony Brook University Department of Dermatology, New York, USA

Christophe Hsu, MD

Global Dermatology; International Society of Digital Health in Dermatology; Switzerland

Dr. Christophe Hsu is a dermatologist  trained in Geneva, Switzerland and Singapore. With over 15 years of experience in the use of digitally-mediated delivery of educational materials, he leads the Global Dermatology initiative,which focuses on AI-augmented science and collaborative sharing to transform dermatological education and patient care worldwide. He also initiated the "PASSION Project", which, funded by Fondation Botnar, leverages the power of Augmented Intelligence for improving the well-being of children and adolescents affected with skin neglected diseases. Dr Hsu is the Secretary General of the International Society of Digital Health in Dermatology (ISDHD) [Formerly called the International Society of Teledermatology] and serves as an Editor for the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology (JAAD) and an Editorial Board member of Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venerology (JEADV). Dr. Hsu practices at the Global Dermatology Practice in Geneva and contributes as a visiting professor at Central South University, China.

Jules Lipoff, MD

Clinical Associate Professor (Adjunct), Division of Dermatology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, USA

Dr. Lipoff is a board-certified dermatologist, Clinical Associate Professor (Adjunct) at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, and formerly Assistant Professor of dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and a senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. His research focuses on access to care, telemedicine, social media, and health equity.At the American Academy of Dermatology, he is the outgoing chair of the teledermatology Taskforce and a current member of the ad hoc COVID-19 task force and the editorial board of the Dialogues in Dermatology podcast series.Dr. Lipoff directed a Penn dermatology clinic for HIV/AIDS, transgender, and non-binary patients (PRIDE clinic - PRoviding Integrated Dermatology for Everyone), and also volunteers for the Philadelphia municipal STD Clinic, Puentes de Salud, Physicians for Human Rights, and serves as a Senior Specialist Consultant for Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders).

Amanda Oakley, CNZM, MBChB, PGHealDipInf, FRACP, FNZDSI, IFAAD

Associate Professor (Adjunct), University of Auckland; Head of Department of Dermatology, Te Whatu Ora Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

Adjunct Associate Professor Amanda Oakley has an appointment at the University of Auckland and is Head of the Department of Dermatology at Te Whatu Ora Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand. President of the International Society of Teledermatology (2020 to 2023), her interest in Teledermatology and the Internet began in 1995 and was soon followed by obtaining a Postgraduate Diploma in Health Informatics. The Department provides teledermatology services to hundreds of primary care referrers each month. She is widely published, with 187 works listed by ORCID and many articles in non-peer-reviewed medical magazines. She is best known as the Editor in Chief of DermNet from 1995 to 2020, the popular online dermatological resource, for which she has received many awards and Honorary Memberships. She has supervised and mentored many medical students, dermatological trainees, and new consultants. She is sought after to deliver workshops and presentations on various dermatological topics, especially dermatoscopy.  

Eva R. Parker, MD, FAAD

Assistant Professor, Department of Dermatology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, USA

Dr. Eva Rawlings Parker is an Assistant Professor of Dermatology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN. She received her Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science from the University of Denver. Dr. Parker earned her medical doctorate at the University of Colorado and completed her residency in dermatology at Northwestern University in Chicago, IL. Dr. Parker practices general and complex medical dermatology as well as cosmetic and procedural dermatology. She also provides volunteer dermatologic care to immigrant, refugee, and underserved populations in Nashville, TN, at Siloam Health and the Shade Tree Clinic. Additionally, she provides volunteer telehealth consultation services in Kenya through The Addis Clinic and has taught internationally in resource-limited settings. Dr. Parker’s clinical and academic interests include complex medical dermatology, health-related effects of climate change, global health, HIV dermatoses, and tropical skin disease. She sits on the executive board for the American Academy of Dermatology’s Expert Resource Group on Climate and Environmental Affairs and is a member of the International Society of Dermatology’s Committee on Climate Change. Dr. Parker is an editorial board member for the Journal of Climate Change and Health. She previously served as the Scientific Committee Chair for the Chicago Dermatological Society. Currently, she is President of the Nashville Dermatologic Society and Vice President of the Williamson County Medical Society. Prior to returning to her hometown of Nashville, Dr. Parker was an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Loyola University Medical Center, serving as Associate Director of the Dermatology Residency Training Program and Director of the Inpatient Dermatology Consultation Service.

Prof. Fahafahantsoa Rapelanoro Rabenja

Professor, University of Antananarivo, Madagascar

Prof. Fahafahantsoa Rapelanoro Rabenja studied in Antananarivo (Madagascar) and completed his specialization in Dermato-Venereology at the University of Bordeaux II; he also has a D.E.S.S. in Project Management in Public Health (MPH) from the University of Bordeaux II. He received training in the field of ICT and health, including a certificate from the New England Medical Center - Tufts University School of Medicine International Training Program in Medical Informatics Boston – and the University of Natal School of Medicine Durban in 1999. He has been Agrégé of CAMES since 2000 and is currently Full Professor of the Chair of Dermato-Venereology at the Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital of Antananarivo. He also leads the LAboratory in public health, Research and Technique of medical Informatics and Communication (LARTIC), which he founded in 2002. LARTIC has been a partner of the African Francophone Telemedicine Network RAFT since 2005, where it is a focal point and member of the scientific council. He has had several national and international hospital and university responsibilities. Former Dean of the Faculty of Human Medicine, Veterinary and Pharmacy, a former member of the permanent board of CIDMEF, and Former Director and PCA of the CHU Antananarivo, he founded the faculties of Medicine in the provinces of Madagascar and also contributed to the establishment of the pharmacy department and the Charles Mérieux CICM Infectious Disease Center research laboratory. Prof. Rapelanoro Rabenja is involved in several projects: PASSION artificial intelligence in the five main dermatological pathologies in Africa (scabies, atopic dermatitis, mycoses, impetigo and insect bites), Malaria Index Survey 2016, HELP “HIV Electronic Platform,” HIV mapping, therapeutic itinerary in HIV, fever, global fund financing. He is also working on a study on chromomycosis and sporotrichosis in collaboration with the Mérieux Foundation and the University of Grenoble. He is a Member of the African Society of Dermatology Venereology ASDV, an Editorial Board Member of "Dermatology and pigmentation disorders," contributes to the World Justice Project Rule of Law Index, and is a Member of the Scientific Committee of several scientific journals. He is the former Secretary-General of the ADF Association of Francophone Dermatologists and founder of the Malagasy Society of Dermatology, and an honorary member of the SFD French Dermatologist Society. In 2020, he received a L’Oreal Grant for African Hair and Skin Research. He has been Judge/Examiner of more than 100 medical theses published in international scientific journals – including those in the Doctoral school jointly supervised by the Universities of Reunion - Bordeaux – Grenoble. He has given over 100 conference papers (internationally) since 1992 and has more than 80 articles published in scientific journals.

James A. Solomon, MD, PhD, FAAD

Professor, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida; Professor, University of Nevada Las Vegas School of Medicine; Assistant Clinical Professor Carle-Illinois College of Medicine, USA

Dr. Solomon is the Chief of Dermatology at the North Las Vegas Veterans Administration Medical Center.  He maintains several academic appointments as Professor of Dermatology, University of Central Florida College of Medicine; Florida State University, College of Medicine; and University of Nevada Las Vegas School of Medicine. He also is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Dermatology at Carle-Illinois College of Medicine. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland; a Ph.D. in Immunology from SUNY Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, New York; and an M.D. from SUNY Buffalo School of Medicine, Buffalo, New York. He completed cancer research fellowships at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo, NY, and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He completed residency training in Pathology at the Mallory Institute of Pathology, Boston City Hospital: Pediatrics at Tufts New England Medical Center, and Dermatology at a combined Boston University/Tufts University program. Dr. Solomon has been participating as a principal investigator in multiple pharmaceutical company-initiated clinical trials. Dr. Solomon has several ongoing independent research projects, including:  1.) a highly detailed long term diary detailing the relationship between disease activity and lifestyle, diet,  2.) role of dietary factors in modulating disease activity and response to treatment, and 3.) exposing the unrecognized (off-label) sources of common cutaneous allergens and carcinogens. He has published /presented over 150 articles/abstracts/posters and serves as an assistant editor for several journals pertaining to dermatology.

Social Media Editors

@JMIRDermatology

Jarrett Anderson, BSc

Jarett is a 4th-year medical student at the Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine. He has published papers concerning eczema, melanoma, Imiquimod as a prophylactic treatment for COVID-19, and gamification within dermatology. His academic interests include atopic dermatitis, social media in dermatology, and medical dermatology. Jarett enjoys working with others to increase awareness of skin diseases, particularly those that illustrate a systemic condition, through social media. He has promoted various systematic reviews from the Cochrane library by managing the Cochrane Skin Facebook page.

Anthony Concilla, BSc 

Anthony is a 4th-year medical student at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. His academic interests include cutaneous oncology, biological therapies, and medical dermatology. He is a co-author on multiple dermatology-related internet research publications and is an editor of the Cochrane Skin Group's social media accounts. Anthony has a passion for the dissemination of evidence-based medicine on Twitter and loves connecting with colleagues from across the globe. He serves as a Social Media Editor for JMIR Dermatology and takes pride in increasing the impact of the journal by sharing its high-quality literature. 

Austin Hamp, BSc

Austin is a 4th-year medical student at Midwestern, Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine. He has published papers on melanoma, atopic dermatitis, and preventative medicine. In addition, he has a strong interest in utilizing social media in dermatology to improve medical education. Austin is the Instagram social media editor for Cochrane Skin, where he continues to work to promote Cochrane Skin research, events, and news. He aspires to continue to help disseminate evidence-based dermatologic knowledge. 

Daniel Strock, MD Candidate, BSc

Daniel Strock is a 4th-year medical student at Eastern Virginia Medical School. He has published papers related to gamification, interventions for hand eczema, pembrolizumab-induced bullous pemphigoid, and gender parity within editorial boards. His research interests specifically include medical education, autoimmune skin disease, and the intersection of dermatology with the LGBT+ community. He has a passion for working with underrepresented communities and is particularly interested in social media's role in mitigating inequalities in the clinical and research setting.

Past Editorial Board Members

Madeline Adelman, MD, Dermatology Clinical Research Fellow, University of Colorado Department of Dermatology, USA

Cory Dunnick, MD, Professor, University of Colorado Department of Dermatology, USA

Jessica Clark Newman, MD, MPH, FAAD, Associate Professor of Clinical Dermatology, Columbia University; Chief of Dermatology, James J Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Centre, USA

Jalal Maghfour, MD, Department of Dermatology, Henry Ford Health System, USA

Edit Olasz, MD, PhD, Academic Dermatologist, Co-founder of Harken Derm, Froedtert Hospital, MCW Health Network, USA

Mollie Oudenhoven, MD, University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill School of Medicine, American Board of Dermatology, American Board of Pediatrics, USA

Sherry Pagoto, PhD, Professor and Health Psychologist, Department of Allied Health Sciences, University of Connecticut; Director, UConn Center for mHealth and Social Media, USA

Torunn Sivesind, MD, Research Fellow, University of Colorado Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus, USA

JiaDe (Jeff) Yu, MD, Assistant Professor of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA

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How can I apply to become an editorial board member?

We are currently looking to expand our Editorial Board. To apply to be an Editorial Board Member/Associate Editor, please apply using the form linked in this article. You should hold a PhD (or similar higher degree), have a publication track record (h-index>8), and ideally have some academic editing experience. 

This may be particularly interesting for workshop and conference organizers putting together a grant-funded event (eg, with invited experts) on an eHealth-related topic. JMIR can then be used as a dissemination vehicle.

The task of the Guest Editor(s) is generally to:

• Solicit manuscripts from colleagues concerning the selected topic;
• Select peer-reviewers for incoming manuscripts;
• Make decisions (together with the editorial board) on article revisions and acceptance;
• Write an editorial for the theme issue; and/or
• Secure funding to sponsor the APFs for published papers (usually in the $10-20k range).

Alternately, the abstracts of the conference may be published in a supplement in iProc, with selected full papers published later in a theme issue or in regular JMIR issues.