Joseph F Merola MD MMSc, FACR, FAAD

Summary

• Joseph F. Merola, MD, MMSc the Chair of Dermatology at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX; he is Professor of Dermatology and Professor of Medicine and Rheumatology. He holds the Mary Kay Distinguished Chair in Dermatology. Previously, Dr. Merola was Vice Chair of Dermatology and Associate Professor in the Department of Dermatology and Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Merola is board-certified in Dermatology, Internal Medicine, and Rheumatology. He serves as the Vice Chair for Clinical Trials and Innovation, the Director of the Clinical Unit for Research Innovation and Trials (CUReIT), Director of the Center for Skin and Related Musculoskeletal Diseases and the Associate Program Director for the Harvard Combined Internal Medicine-Dermatology Residency Training Program at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Dr. Merola earned his medical degree at the New York University School of Medicine and his Masters of Medical Sciences degree at Harvard Medical School. He completed an internship in Internal Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, followed by a residency in Dermatology at the New York University Medical Center, where he was chief resident. He continued with a residency in Internal Medicine and a fellowship in Rheumatology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
  
  Dr. Merola is Founding President of the Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis Clinics Multicenter Advancement Network Consortium (PPACMAN), the Scientific and Medical Boards of the National Psoriasis Foundation, Board of the International Dermatology Outcome Measures Group and VP of GRAPPA (Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis), Medical and Scientific Board of the Lupus Foundation. He is also the current president of the Medical Dermatology Society and ores-elect of Rheum-Derm Society.