Gerald S. Lazarus, MD

Dr. Gerald S Lazarus is currently Professor of Dermatology at Duke University School of Medicine. Previously he was a Professor of Dermatology and Medicine and the founder of the John Hopkins Wound Healing Center where he established collaboration with Walter Reed and the National Naval Medical Center to assist the Wounded Warrior Program. Before his move to Johns Hopkins, Dr. Lazarus held endowed professorships and chaired the dermatology departments at Duke University and the University of Pennsylvania where his departments were, the number one recipients of NIH support in cutaneous biology. 

He served as Dean and CEO at the UC Davis Medical School and Health System.  Between 1999 and 2002 he lived in Beijing with his wife, Audrey Jakubowski PhD, where they were advisers to the Minister of Health of China and senior Professors at the Peking Union Medical College. Dr. Lazarus is the author of over 300 scholarly papers and 7 books and has received multiple awards for research, distinguished teaching and mentoring younger researchers. 

He has served as President of the Society for Investigative Dermatology and as a University Trustee at George Washing to University where he served as Vice Chair of the Academic Medical Center Committee. As the founding president of the Milstein Medical Asian American Partnership Foundation, he developed medical and scientific partnerships between American and Chinese universities.  Dr. Lazarus currently serves on the Boards of the Milstein Medical Asian American Partnership Foundation and the American Skin Association. During his term on our Trust Board he championed the Development of the Humanities as the third pillar of medical education in partnership with the Association of American Medical Colleges.