Ethan A. Lerner MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School; Physician Investigator, Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Mass General Research Institute, Boston, MassachusettsEthan A. Lerner, MD, PhD, is the director of the Program in Itch at Massachusetts General Hospital and is an associate professor of dermatology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Lerner earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania and both his PhD in immunology and his Doctor of Medicine degree from Yale University. He is a member of the AAD, EADV and SID. He serves on the board of directors for the New England Dermatological Society and the International Forum for the Study of Itch (IFSI) and is the editor-in-chief of the journal ITCH. He is on the scientific advisory board of Escient Pharmaceuticals. He is a trustee of the renowned Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Dr Lerner has authored more than 130 papers.