Prof. Alice B. Gottlieb, MD, PhD

Dermatologist-in-Chief, Tufts-New England Medical Center, and Ansell Professor of Dermatology and Chairman of Tufts University School of Medicine’s Department of Dermatology, Boston, MA, USA. Formerly of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, where she served as the WH Conzen Chair in Clinical Pharmacology, the Director of the Clinical Research Center and Founding Director of the Psoriasis Center of Excellence. Gottlieb is a graduate of Cornell Medical School and received her PhD in Immunology from Rockefeller University. Board certified in Dermatology, Rheumatology and Internal Medicine, she is one of only a handful of doctors in the United States certified in all three specialties.  She is an internationally recognized expert in the field of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, and was one of the first scientists to demonstrate that psoriasis is a T cell mediated disease.  Her research using targeted immunobiologics as pathogenic probes provided new understanding of the pathogenesis of the disease as well as the foundation for biologic drug development for psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis.  She has published extensively and has presented her work at conferences in Europe, Asia and the United States.  Her current research includes the study of apoptosis and inflammation-related protein and gene expression in patients responding to novel psoriasis treatments.