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Dr. Barbara Gilchrest, Professor and Chair, Department of Dermatology at Boston University School of Medicine and Chief of Dermatology at the Boston Medical Center (BMC). A Harvard Medical School graduate, Dr. Gilchrest is board certified in Internal Medicine and Dermatology. She is the author or editor of 11 books on skin aging, photoaging, and UV effects on skin and author of over 400 original articles, reviews, editorials, and invited textbook chapters. She is a section editor for the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, the leading research journal in the field, and serves on the editorial board of 5 other dermatology or aging journals. Her current research interests range from the molecular basis of skin aging to DNA damage responses in skin to clinical studies of photodynamic therapy for the prevention and treatment of photocarcinogenesis. Dr. Gilchrest is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science. | 