Emma Guttman-Yassky, MD, PhD

Waldman Professor of Dermatology and Immunology
Health System Chair
Department of Dermatology
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Biography

Dr. Guttman is the Waldman Professor of Dermatology and Immunology and the
health system chair in the department of dermatology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She is also the director of the center for excellence in eczema and the laboratory for inflammatory skin diseases and co-director of the Mount Sinai Clinique Skin Aging Center. She earned her M.D. from Sackler School of Medicine at the Tel-Aviv University, and a Ph.D. degree from the Bar-Ilan University, Israel. After her first Board certification in dermatology in Israel, Dr. Guttman moved to the U.S. to pursue a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at The Rockefeller University at the Laboratory for Investigative Dermatology. Upon completion of her fellowship, she completed a second dermatology residency training at Weill-Cornell Medical College, in NY, obtaining her American board certification. Dr. Guttman’s major research focus areas are atopic dermatitis (AD)/eczema, hair loss disorders and skin aging.

Her research made paradigm-shifting discoveries on the immunologic basis of AD/eczema in adults and children, enriching the understanding of this common disorder, opening the door for novel, pathway-specific drugs. Recently, Dr. Guttman extended her research interest to hair loss disorders such as alopecia areata and scarring hair loss, chronic hand eczema, keloids, ichthyosis, and other skin diseases, in which her findings are also translated to novel therapeutics. She has recently made paradigm shifting discoveries linking alopecia areata to the atopic/allergic march, with therapeutic implications. Dr. Guttman co-founded the international eczema council (IEC) and is its past president. Dr. Guttman received many national and international awards (e.g the American Academy of Allergy and Immunology (AAAAI) award for Scientific Innovation and for pioneering discoveries, the Paul Ehrlich award for pioneering discoveries of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI), the American academy of Dermatology (AAD) Young Investigator award, and many others). She was elected as a member to the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), and the American Dermatological Society (ADA). She is a co- founder and organizer of one of the most important global meetings in dermatology, the Inflammatory Skin Disease Summit (ISDS), and serves on the editorial board of several high impact journals. Dr. Gutman delivered many keynote and plenary presentations in international and national meetings and authored >420 peer-reviewed publications, including in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), Lancet, Nature, Nature Immunology, Cell, Allergy, and others.