Alongside its new president, AAD appoints additional officers and board members at its annual meeting.
Philadelphia-based board-certified dermatologist Susan C. Taylor, MD, FAAD, will begin her one-year term as president of the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) at the close of the AAD’s Annual Meeting.
Taylor will lead the dermatologic society that represents nearly 21,000 physicians who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of skin, hair, and nail conditions. She will also hold the same position for the American Academy of Dermatology Association, a sister organization focused on government affairs, health policy, and practice information. Taylor is the sixth woman and first African American dermatologist to serve as AAD president.
“I am honored to serve the AAD membership as their next president, and I thank them for trusting me to fight for them and for the dermatology specialty over the next year and beyond,” says Taylor in a release. “I look forward to tackling head-on some of the most important issues facing dermatology today, including access to care for patients, making the Academy more accessible for members, and focusing on ensuring members feel like their Academy is taking care of them so they can better take care of their patients through important Academy activities like federal, state, and grassroots advocacy, the extensive educations opportunities both online and in person, the wide-ranging suite of practice management tools, and more.”
Taylor previously served as AAD vice president from 2020 to 2021. She is the Bernett Johnson Professor of Dermatology at Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Taylor pursued her undergraduate education at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, earned her medical degree from Harvard University in Boston, completed an internal medicine residency at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, and completed her dermatology residency at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City.
In addition to serving as AAD vice president, she has served on the AAD board of directors and has been involved with many AAD committees, councils, and task forces. She was awarded the John Kenney Jr, MD Lifetime Achievement Award by the AAD in 2022.
AAD Installs New Officers, Board Members
In addition to Taylor, three other new officers and four new board members will be installed immediately upon the conclusion of the 2025 Annual Meeting of the AAD. The officers and board members are all board-certified dermatologists and members of the AAD.
New officers:
- Kevin D. Cooper, MD, FAAD, will hold the office of vice president for one year. Cooper earned his medical degree from the University of Florida in Gainesville, Fla, and completed his dermatology residency at the Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Ore, after which he spent time at the National Institute of Health and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich. He is currently a professor and the Henri Pell Junod, Jr, Chair of Dermatology at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, University Hospital Seidman Cancer Center, and Case Western Reserve University, all of which are located in Cleveland. He has served on the AAD board of directors, as well as on a variety of academy councils, committees, and task forces. He is a former president of the Association of Professors of Dermatology and the Society for Investigative Dermatology.
- Keyvan Nouri, MD, MBA, FAAD, will hold the office of secretary-treasurer for three years. Nouri is tenure professor of dermatology, Louis C. Skinner, Jr, MD Endowed Chair of Dermatology, Richard Helfman Professor of Dermatologic Surgery, immediate past chair of the University of Miami Medical Group, and director of Mohs, dermatologic, and laser surgery and director of Mohs fellowship and surgical training for the University of Miami department of dermatology. Nouri previously served the academy as assistant secretary-treasurer.
- Sabra Sullivan, MD, PhD, FAAD, will hold the office of assistant secretary-treasurer for three years. Sullivan previously served as the chair of the AADA Council on Government Affairs and Health Policy and chair of the Congressional Policy Committee among many councils, workshops, and committees. She has also served as president and vice president of the Mississippi Dermatologic Society and served on the boards of directors of the American Dermatological Association, the Noah Worcester Society, and the Women’s Dermatologic Society. She earned her medical degree and a doctorate in immunology from University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas and completed her dermatology residency at Stanford University in Stanford, California. She is a clinical adjunct professor of dermatology at the University of Mississippi Medical School. Sullivan practices in Jackson, Mississippi.
Board members:
Each individual listed below will serve a four-year term on the AAD’s board of directors.
- Andrew F. Alexis, MD, MPH, FAAD, is a professor of clinical dermatology at Weill Cornell University in New York City. Alexis obtained his medical degree from Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and completed his dermatology residency at Weill Cornell’s New York Presbyterian Hospital. He is currently an editorial board member for the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. Alexis has also served on the board of directors of the American Dermatological Association and as president of the New York Dermatological Society. He is the immediate past-president of the Skin of Color Society.
- A. Shadi Kourosh, MD, MPH, FAAD, is the director of community health in the department of dermatology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and an associate professor at Harvard. Kourosh obtained her medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, where she also completed her dermatology residency. She is a past editor-in-chief of the Academy’s Dialogues in Dermatology podcast. Kourosh chairs the AAD’s Ad Hoc Task Force on Dermatological Resources for the Intervention and Prevention of Human Trafficking.
- Seth L. Matarasso, MD, FAAD, is a clinical professor of dermatology at the University of California School of Medicine in San Francisco. Matarasso obtained his medical degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine and completed his dermatology residency at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, where he also served as chief resident. He then completed a dermatologic surgery and Mohs chemosurgery fellowship at UCSF. He is the chair of the Academy’s Bylaws Committee. Matarasso has also served as president of the California Society of Dermatology and is the current president of the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery.
- Joseph Merola, MD, MSc, FAAD, is the chair of dermatology at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and professor of dermatology, professor of medicine and rheumatology, and professor at the Peter O’Donnell Jr School of Public Health. Merola is board-certified in dermatology, internal medicine, and rheumatology. Merola obtained his medical degree from the New York University School of Medicine, where he also completed his dermatology residency and served as chief resident and his Masters of Medical Sciences degree at Harvard Medical School. Merola also completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in rheumatology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
