Current and Past Speakers of the Robert and Patricia Fine Lecture:

2007 Anthony Gaspari, M.D.
Professor and Chairman, Department of Dermatology, University of Maryland

Anthony A. Gaspari, M.D., a dermatologist with a special interest and expertise in immunology and skin allergies, has been serving as the chairman of the Department of Dermatology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and chief of dermatology at the University of Maryland Medical Center since 2003.

Dr. Gaspari came to the University of Maryland in 2001 and served as interim chairman of the department since the former acting chairman, Joseph W. Burnett, M.D., retired in 2003. Dr. Gaspari is the Shapiro Professor of Dermatology and also a professor of microbiology and immunology at the University Of Maryland School Of Medicine. He is the director of the cutaneous immunopathology laboratory at the University of Maryland Medical Center, which studies and diagnoses complex skin disorders through cellular analysis.

Dr. Gaspari has done considerable research in cutaneous immunology and recently was awarded $1.2 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study skin allergies. He also has a $524,000 grant from the U.S. Veterans Health Administration to investigate allergic reactions to natural rubber latex.

A graduate of Temple University and Jefferson Medical College, Dr. Gaspari completed his residency at the Emory School of Medicine and a fellowship in cutaneous immunology at the NIH.

He spent 11 years at the University of Rochester in Rochester, N.Y., serving as an associate professor of dermatology and associate professor of oncology at the School of Medicine and Dentistry. He was acting chairman of the Department of Dermatology in 1996. Dr. Gaspari was also on the staff of Strong Memorial Hospital and Monroe Community Hospital in Rochester, N.Y., from 1990 to 2001 and was director of the clinical skin immunopathology service at Strong Memorial Hospital from 1990 to 1995.

He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts, book chapters and review articles. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals as well as NIH grant review panels and U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory board committees. Dr. Gaspari is also the outgoing president of the American Contact Dermatitis Society and serves on the organization's executive committee. He is a member of the American Association of Immunologists, the Clinical Immunology Society, the American Academy of Dermatology and the Dermatology Foundation.

2006 Russell Hall, M.D.
Professor and Division Chief, Department of Dermatology; Duke University
2005 Mark R. Pittelkow, M.D.
Professor, Department of Dermatology; Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
2004 Gary S. Wood, M.D.
Chairman, Department of Dermatology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School
2003 Kevin D. Cooper, M.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Dermatology; Case Western Reserve University
2002 John Stanley, M.D.
Milton B. Hartzell Professor and Chair, Department of Dermatology, University of Pennsylvania
2001 Jean L. Bolognia, M.D.
Professor, Department of Dermatology, Yale University School of Medicine
2000 George P. Lupton, M.D.
Elson B. Helwig Chair in Dermatopathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
1999 Hubert T. Greenway, Jr., M.D.
Fellowship Director for Procedural Dermatology/ Mohs Surgery, Scripps Clinic
1998 Kurt S. Stenn, M.D.
Johnson & Johnson
1997 Raymond L. Barnhill, M.D.
The John Hopkins University
1996 Irwin M. Freedberg, M.D.
George Miller MacKee Professor and Chairman, Department of Dermatology, New York University School of Medicine
1995 David T. Woodley, M.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Dermatology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
1994 Richard D. Sontheimer, M.D.
Professor and Vice Chairman, Department of Dermatology University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
1993 Lloyd E. King Jr., M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of Dermatology, Professor of Medicine Director, Division of Dermatology, Vanderbilt University
1992 Irwin M. Braverman, M.D.
Professor of Dermatology, Yale University School of Medicine
1991 Stephen I. Katz, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief of the Dermatology Branch of the National Cancer Institute, Marion Sulzberger Professor and Acting Chair of Dermatology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.