Expert Details
Medical Dermatology, Allergy, Immunology and Biochemistry
ID: 736175
California, USA
Expert is currently a tenured Full Professor of Dermatology and Biochemistry and a member of the Institute for Immunology and the Cancer Center & Research Institute. Furthermore, Expert is a Diplomate of American Board of Dermatology, a Fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology and a standing member of several national and international professional societies. I have multiple professional awards and honors, including honorary society memberships and the "best of" clinician's awards, such as "Best Doctors in America," "America's Most Honored Professionals," etc.
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 1989 | Degree: D.Sc. (Doctor of Science in Medicine) | Subject: Immunology and Cell Biology | Institution: Central Institute of Dermatology and Venereology, Moscow, Russia |
| Year: 1984 | Degree: Ph.D. | Subject: Pharmacology and Biochemistry | Institution: Postgraduate Institute for Physicians, Kiev, Ukraine |
| Year: 1980 | Degree: M.D. | Subject: Medicine | Institution: Medical Institute, Kiev, Ukraine |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
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| Years: 2007 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Full Professor | Department: Dermatology, and Biological Chemistry |
Responsibilities:Practicing physician, basic and clinical researcher, scholar-educator |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1996 to 2007 | Employer: University of California-Davis | Title: Full Professor | Department: Dermatology |
Responsibilities:Practicing physician, basic and clinical researcher, scholar-educator |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1991 to 1996 | Employer: University of Minnesota | Title: Associate Professor | Department: |
Responsibilities:Practicing physician, basic and clinical researcher, scholar-educator |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1984 to 1991 | Employer: Postgraduate Institute for Physicians, Kiev, Ukraine | Title: Assistant Professor | Department: Dermatology |
Responsibilities:Practicing physician, basic and clinical researcher, scholar-educator |
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Career Accomplishments
| Associations / Societies |
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| Professional Societies: Panamerican Society for Pigment Cell Research International Society of Dermatology American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology Sacramento Valley Dermatological Society Ukrainian Medical Association of North America The Society for Investigative Dermatology 1980-present Ukrainian Association of Dermatologists, Venereologists, Cosmetologists |
| Licenses / Certifications |
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| The Medical Board of California, Physician and Surgeon, since 1996 |
| Professional Appointments |
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| Professor (tenured, Step IX), Departments of Dermatology (primary), and Biological Chemistry (secondary) Professor of Dermatology (tenured), Department of Dermatology Associate Professor of Dermatology (tenured), Department of Dermatology, University of Minnesota, Assistant Professor, Department of Dermatology and Venereology, PostGraduate Institute for Physicians, Kiev, Ukraine Instructor of Dermatology and Venereology, Department of Dermatology and Venereology, PostGraduate Institute for Physicians, Kiev, Ukraine |
| Awards / Recognition |
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| Honors: Honorary Member, the French Society of Dermatology America's Most Honored Professionals - Top 5% Best of Irvine Award Featured in Orange Coast Magazine among Top Doctors chosen by their peers Recognized among Castle Connolly Top Doctor for Irvine, CA Vice Chair for Research, Department of Dermatology, UC Irvine Included in Best Doctors in America database HealthGrades Recognized Doctor Doctor of the Year, International Pemphigus and Pemphigoid Foundation, USA Founder, International Pemphigus Research Fund (IPRF) Member, Graduate Group in Immunology, University of California Davis Vice Chair, Medical Advisory Board of International Pemphigus and Pemphigoid Foundation Honorary Chair for California, NRCC Physicians' Advisory Board Vice Chair, Dermatology Foundation of California Honorary Member, Ukrainian Association of Dermatologists, Venereologists, Cosmetologists, Ukraine FIRST Award, NIH, NIAMS, USA Honorary Member, Belgian Royal Society of Dermatology and Venereology, Belgium Annual Award for the Best Scientific Presentation among Young Investigators, PostGraduate Institute for Physicians, Kiev, Ukraine Award, Municipal Society for Scientists and Specialists, Kiev, Ukraine Premium, Ukrainian Republican Society for Inventors, Kiev, Ukraine |
| Medical / Professional |
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| Meeting Organizer/Chairman: Organizer, The 5th International Symposium on Nonneuronal Acetylcholine, Long Beach, CA Co-organizer, Scientific Meeting of International Pemphigus and Pemphigoid Foundation, Luebeck, Germany Co-organizer, Annual Meeting of International Pemphigus and Pemphigoid Foundation, Newport Beach, CA Co-organizer, The 4th Intl. Conference on Nonneuronal Acetylcholine, Giessen, Germany Member of Organizing Committee, The 2nd International Conference on Clinical & Cellular Immunology, Las Vegas, NV Co-organizer, The 3rd Intl. Conference on Nonneuronal Acetylcholine, Groningen, Holland Co-chairman, The 22nd World Congress of Dermatology, Seoul, South Korea Organizer, "Pemphigus & Pemphigoid: from the bench to the bedside," NIH, Bethesda, MD Co-chairman, Organizing Committee of the 2nd International Symposium on Nonneuronal Acetylcholine, Mainz, Germany Co-organizer, "Pemphigus 2005 - Progress and Future Directions," NIH, Bethesda, MD Chairman, Organizing Committee of the 1st International Symposium on Nonneuronal Acetylcholine, San Francisco, CA Editor/Editorial Board Member: Guest Editor, International Immunopharmacology Associate Editor of Dermatology, Frontiers in Medicine Guest Editor, International Immunopharmacology Editorial Board, American Journal of Clinical and Experimental Immunology Guest Editor, Life Sciences Guest Editor, Monographic issue of Autoimmunity on Immunoblistering Dermatoses Section Editor: Autoimmunity Highlights Editorial Board: Experimental Dermatology Editorial Board, Dermatology Reports Editorial Board, Journal of Experimental Pharmacology Guest Editor, Life Sciences Guest Editor, Monographic issue of Autoimmunity on Pemphigus Guest Editor, Life Sciences Editorial Consultant, Physicians' Information and Education Resource, American College of Physicians, Philadelphia, PA Editorial Board, Frontiers in Bioscience Editorial Board, Ukrainian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology, Cosmetology Editorial Board, Problems in Dermatologic Diagnosis & Management, Newark, NJ, Editorial Board, International Journal of Dermatology |
| Publications and Patents Summary |
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| Expert has been a Principal Investigator on several research grants from NIH and other granting agencies, published nearly 300 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, as well as over 170 abstracts of meeting presentations worldwide. |
Additional Experience
| Expert Witness Experience |
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| Over the last two decades, Expert has been providing expert witness services to both plaintiffs’ and defendants’ attorneys, including several high-profile cases. |
| Training / Seminars |
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| Invited Speaker/Guest Lecturer/Visiting Professor: 2020 Department of Dermatology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 2020 Department of Dermatology & Cutaneous Surgery, University of Miami, Miami, FL 2019 The 8th Annual Immunoglobulin Nursing Society National Convention, Las Vegas, NV 2019 The 77th Annual Meeting of American Academy of Dermatology, Washington, DC 2019 Division of Dermatology, University of Texas Health San Antonio, TX 2019 Department of Dermatology, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL 2018 Department of Dermatology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 2018 Department of Dermatology, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ 2018 The 40th Annual Academician O.O. Bogomolets Seminar, National Medical University, Kiev, Ukraine 2018 The 11th International Congress on Autoimmunity, Lisbon, Portugal 2018 Neurotransmitters: non-neuronal functions and therapeutic opportunities, Orleans, France 2018 Department of Dermatology, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR 2017 Annual Meeting of International Pemphigus and Pemphigoid Foundation, Newport Beach, CA 2017 Department of Dermatology, University of California San Diego, CA 2017 Department of Dermatology, The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY 2017 Scientific Meeting of International Pemphigus and Pemphigoid Foundation, Luebeck, Germany 2017 The 75th Annual Meeting of American Academy of Dermatology, Orlando, FL 2016 Department of Dermatology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 2016 Pathogenesis of Pemphigus and Pemphigoid, Munich, Germany 2016 Annual Meeting of International Pemphigus and Pemphigoid Foundation, Austin, TX 2016 Department of Dermatology, Henry Ford Medical Center, Detroit, MI 2016 The 17th World Conference on Lung Cancer, Vienna, Austria 2016 The 10th International Congress on Autoimmunity, Leipzig, Germany 2016 The 15th International Symposium on Cholinergic Mechanisms, Marseille, France 2016 Department of Dermatology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 2016 Department of Dermatology, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL 2016 6th Summit in Aesthetic Medicine, Newport Beach, CA 2015 Houston Dermatology Society Meeting, Houston, TX 2015 The 73rd Annual Meeting of American Academy of Dermatology, San Francisco, CA 2015 The 4th Annual Immunoglobulin Nursing Society National Convention, Washington, DC 2015 Annual Meeting of International Pemphigus and Pemphigoid Foundation, New York, NY 2015 Department of Dermatology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 2015 Department of Dermatology, The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY 2014 The 4th Annual Meeting of Euro-Asian Assoc. of Dermato-venereologists, Jerusalem, Israel 2014 Department of Dermatology, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ 2014 Annual Meeting of International Pemphigus and Pemphigoid Foundation, Chicago, IL 2014 Department of Dermatology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 2014 4th Summit in Aesthetic Medicine, Dana Point, CA 2014 The 4th Intl. Conference on Nonneuronal Acetylcholine, Giessen, Germany 2014 The 9th International Congress on Autoimmunity, Nice, France 2014 Department of Dermatology, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO 2014 The 26th Annual Meeting of Wound Healing Society, Orlando, FL 2014 The 72nd Annual Meeting of American Academy of Dermatology, Denver, CO 2014 The Florida West Coast Society of Dermatology and Department of Dermatology & Cutaneous Surgery of University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 2014 2nd International Symposium on Dermato-endocrinology, Copenhagen, Denmark 2013 Department of Dermatology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 2013 The Miami Society for Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery, Miami, FL 2013 The 2nd International Conference on Clinical & Cellular Immunology, Las Vegas, NV 2013 Investigator Sponsored Research Forum, Grifols, Raleigh, NC 2013 XI International Congress of Dermatology, New Delhi, India 2013 1st International Symposium on Dermato-endocrinology, Edinburgh, UK 2013 The Dermatology Nurse Practitioner Society of New England, Boston, MA 2013 Annual Meeting of International Pemphigus and Pemphigoid Foundation, San Francisco, CA 2013 30th Annual Conference of the Egyptian Society of Dermatology & Venerology, Cairo, Egypt 2013 International Symposium on Autoimmune Bullous Diseases, Lübeck, Germany 2013 The 71st Annual Meeting of American Academy of Dermatology, Miami, FL 2013 Department of Dermatology, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 2012 The 3rd Continental Congress of Dermatology, Durban, South Africa 2012 The 13th Las Vegas Dermatology Seminar, Las Vegas, NV 2012 "Modulation of Autoimmunity" Retreat, Lübeck, Germany 2012 Summer American Academy of Dermatology Meeting, Boston, MA 2012 Annual Meeting of the European Society for Dermatological Research, Venice, Italy 2012 The 8th International Congress on Autoimmunity, Granada, Spain 2012 Annual Meeting of the International Pemphigus and Pemphigoid Foundation, Boston, MA 2012 The 70th Annual Meeting of American Academy of Dermatology, San Diego, CA 2011 Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, CA 2011 The 20th Prof. Dr. A. Lufty Tat Symposium, Ankara, Turkey 2011 Summer American Academy of Dermatology Meeting, New York, NY 2011 Department of Dermatology, UCLA-Harbor Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 2011 International von Behring-Röntgen Symposium “Pemphigus – from autoimmunity to disease”, Marburg, Germany 2011 The 3rd International Conference on Drug Discovery & Therapy, Dubai, U.A.E. 2011 Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany 2011 The 9th Anti-Aging Medicine World Congress & MediSpa, Monte-Carlo, Monaco 2011 Wellcome Trust Scientific Conference, Hinxton, UK 2011 The 69th Annual Meeting of American Academy of Dermatology, New Orleans, LA 2010 The 9th Ukrainian Congress of Dermatologists and Venereologists, Odessa, Ukraine 2011 The 3rd Intl. Conference on Nonneuronal Acetylcholine, Groningen, Holland 2011 The 22nd World Congress of Dermatology, Seoul, South Korea 2010 Summer American Academy of Dermatology Meeting, Chicago, IL 2010 The 13th World Congress on Cancers of the Skin, Madrid, Spain 2010 "Pemphigus & Pemphigoid: from the bench to the bedside," NIH, Bethesda, MD 2010 The 68th Annual Meeting of American Academy of Dermatology, Miami, FL 2009 Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, CA 2009 The Scientific Conference Dedicated to the 125th Anniversary of Dept. of Dermatology of National O. O. Bohomolets Medical University, Kiev, Ukraine 2009 International Pemphigus Meeting, Berne, Switzerland 2009 The 10th International Congress of Dermatology, Prague, Czech Republic 2009 The 67th Annual Meeting of American Academy of Dermatology, San Francisco, CA 2009 The 15th Conference of the Panamerican Society for Pigment Cell Research, Memphis, TN 2008 The 7th Annual Meeting of Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute, Boston, MA 2008 Environmental Stressors in Biology and Medicine, Siena, Italy 2008 The 66th Annual Meeting of American Academy of Dermatology, San Antonio, TX 2008 International Meeting on Autoimmune Bullous Diseases, Otsu, Japan 2008 Recent Advances in Muscarinic Receptor Pharmacology and Therapeutics, San Diego, CA 2007 The 21st World Congress of Dermatology, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2007 Frontiers of Cutaneous Biology, Greifswald, Germany 2007 The 6th Annual Meeting of Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute, Miami, FL 2007 Mini-Conference "New Horizons in Biological Roles of Acetylcholine", Tokyo, Japan 2007 The 6th Annual Meeting of Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute, Miami, FL 2007 The 80th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Pharmacological Society, Nagoya, Japan 2007 The 65th Annual Meeting of American Academy of Dermatology, Washington, D.C. 2006 Research seminar at Athenagen, Inc., Palo Alto, CA 2006 Pemphigus/Pemphigoid Satellite Symposium, Annual ESDR Meeting, Paris, France 2006 The 5th Annual Meeting of Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute, Boston, MA 2006 National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Palladin Institute of Biochemistry, Kiev, Ukraine 2006 The Unilever Research-U.S.A., Edgewater, NJ 2006 The 5th Annual Meeting of Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute, Boston, MA 2006 Department of Dermatology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 2006 Department of Dermatology, University of Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany 2006 The 2nd International Symposium on Nonneuronal Acetylcholine, Mainz, Germany 2006 The 64rd Annual Meeting of American Academy of Dermatology, San Francisco, CA 2005 The Unilever Research-USA, Edgewater, NJ 2006 Frontiers of Cutaneous Biology, Bradford, UK 2005 Department of Dermatology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 2005 The 14th Congress of European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, London, UK 2005 The 8th Ukrainian Congress of Dermatologists and Venereologists, Kiev, Ukraine 2005 The 4th Annual Meeting of Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute, Miami, FL 2005 Department of Dermatology, Employer, CA 2005 "Pemphigus 2005 - Progress and Future Directions," NIH, Bethesda, MD 2004 The 10th Anniversary Meeting of Gifu Dermatology Research Seminars, Gifu, Japan 2004 Bradford Club 2004, University of Bradford, UK 2004 Ukrainian Association of Dermatologists, Venereologists & Cosmetologists, Kiev, Ukraine 2004 The 3rd Annual Meeting of Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute, Miami, FL 2004 Research seminar at Avon Products, Inc. Suffern, NY. 2004 First Vitiligo Researcher Conference, American Vitiligo Res. Foundation, Clearwater, FL 2004 The 25th Colombian National Dermatology Congress, Bogotá, Colombia. 2004 The International Pemphigus Foundation Meeting in Las Vegas, NV 2004 The 62nd Annual Meeting of American Academy of Dermatology, Washington, D.C. 2004 The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Meeting, Fort Lauderdale, FL 2004 International Scientific Congress "Neurobiology of the Skin," Muenster, Germany 2004 Research conference "IVIg Treatment of Pemphigus", Bethesda, MD 2003 International Conference on Oxidative Stress in Skin Biology and Medicine, Andros, Greece 2003 The 2nd Annual Meeting of Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute, Miami, FL 2003 Symposium "Frontiers in Cutaneous Biology in 2003," Bradford, UK 2003 Department of Dermatology, USC and Westwood VA, Los Angeles, CA 2003 Department of Dermatology, Gifu University Medical School, Gifu, Japan 2003 German Armed Forces Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Munich, Germany 2003 Department of Pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 2003 The 61st Annual Meeting of American Academy of Dermatology: San Francisco, CA 2003 Association for Proficiency in Skin Immunology, San Francisco, CA 2003 Skin Disease Education Foundation: Hawaii Dermatology Seminar, Maui, HI 2003 Department of Dermatology, Employer, CA 2002 The 1st International Symposium on Nonneuronal Acetylcholine, San Francisco, CA 2002 Autoimmunity and the Skin (51st Montagna Symposium on Skin Biology), Snowmass, CO 2002 Medical Meeting of Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute, Miami, FL 2002 International Workshop on Cutaneous Neuroendocrinology, Hamburg, Germany 2002 International Meeting on Bullous Dermatoses, Groningen, The Netherlands 2002 The Unilever Research-USA, Edgewater, NJ 2002 Department of Dermatology, The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY 2001 Irvin H. Blank Resident/Fellow Forum; 62nd SID Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. 2002 Department of Dermatology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL 2002 The 60th Annual Meeting of American Academy of Dermatology, New Orleans, LA 2002 International Pemphigus Foundation, Anaheim, CA 2001 Pemphigus as a Model of Organ-specific Autoimmune Disease, NIH, Bethesda, MD 2001 Department of Dermatology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 2000 Pemphigus'2000, Bangkok, Thailand 2000 Department of Dermatology, University of California-San Diego, CA 2000 Psoriasis Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA 2000 International Pemphigus Foundation, San Francisco, CA 1999 The Unilever Research-USA, Edgewater, NJ 1998 Symposium on Hereditary and Acquired Bullous Dermatoses, Salzburg, Austria 1998 Department of Dermatology, University of California-San Francisco, CA 1997 The 19th World Congress of Dermatology, Sydney, Australia 1996 The Cutaneous Biology Foundation, Inc, USA 1996 Department of Dermatology, Mayo Foundation and Clinics, Rochester, MN 1995 University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 1993 Department of Pharmacology and Exp. Therapeutics, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 1993 Department of Biochemistry, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 1991 Belgian Royal Society of Dermatology and Venereology, Liege, Belgium 1991 Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France 1990 Department of Dermatology at University of Southampton, UK 1990 Department of Dermatology at Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK 1990 Department of Dermatology at Slade Hospital, Oxford, UK 1990 St John's Institute of Dermatology, London, UK 1990 Italian Society for Dermatology and Venereology, Venice, Italy 1989 Department of Immunology, Innsbruck University, Austria 1989 Department of Dermatology, University of Vienna, Austria |
Language Skills
| Language | Proficiency |
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| Russian | Fluent |
| Ukrainian | Fluent |
Fields of Expertise
human skin, bacterial skin disease, infectious skin disease, skin abnormalities, skin allergy, skin blister, skin blister treatment, skin disease, skin, skin pigmentation, skin toxicity, vascular skin disease, atopic dermatitis, applied dermatotoxicology, allergic contact dermatitis, dermatitis, dermatological immunology, dermatology, dermatotoxicology, psoriasiform dermatitis, scleroderma, pediatric dermatology, seborrheic dermatitis, toxic epidermal necrolysis, pemphigus, pemphigoid gestationis, acne, eczema, lupus erythematosus, alopecia, urticaria, vitiligo, clinical immunology, allergen sensitization, drug allergy, acute wound, chronic wound, wound, wound care, wound healing, wound infection