Principal Investigator

Paul Nghiem, M.D., Ph. D.
George F. Odland Endowed Chair in Dermatology
Interim Chair of the Department of Dermatology
University of Washington School of Medicine
Professor, Department of Dermatology
Department of Medicine
University of Washington School of Medicine
Adjunct Professor
Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology
Department of Immunology
Department of Oral Health Sciences
University of Washington School of Dentistry
1986 – A.B. Biological Sciences, Harvard University, Boston, MA
1994 – Ph.D. Stanford University, Program in Cancer Biology Stanford, CA
1994 – M.D. Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
Email: pnghiem[@]uw.edu
Pronouns: he/him/his
Current Members

Song Park, MD
2016-present

Tomoko Akaike, MD
2018-present

Ariel Finberg, MD
2023 – present

Austin Jabbour, MD
2023 – present

Krista Lachance, M.S.
2016-Present

Rima Kulikauskas, B.S.
2015-present

Candice Church, PhD
2014-present

Carina Morningstar, B.S.
2020-presenet

Rongxiang Lin, B.S
2023 – present

Jung Hyun Lee, PhD
2018 – Present

Rashmi Bhakuni, PhD
2020-present

Saumya Jani, B.S.
2021-present

Haroldo Rodriguez, B.S.
2021-present

Kelsey Cahill, B.S.
2018-present

Alex Fu, B.S.
2019-present

Kate Biese, B.A.
2022 – present

Emily Gong
2021-present

Ally Remington
2021-present

Rian Alam
2022-present

Ankita Menon
2022-present

Macy Gilmour
2023-present

Smitha Chandrasekhar
2023-present
Former Members

Erin McClure
2022-2023

Neha Singh
2022 – 2023

Nikhil Harikrishnan
2020-2023

Thomas Pulliam, B.S.
2017-2023

Lindsay Gunnell, MD
2021-2022

Allene Fonseca, MD
2020-2021

Shira Tabachnick-Cherny, PhD
2019-2023

Pete Goff, MD, PhD
2019-2023

Megan Maerz
2020-2020

Naomi Yamamoto
2020-2020

Marika Bierma
2019-2022

Kelly Paulson, MD, PhD

Yassi Moshiri
2019-2020

Lauren Zawacki, B.S.
2018-2022

Nathan Rodland
2017-2018

Nora Alexander
2017-2020

Aric Colunga, PhD
2016-2019

Zoe Thuesmunn
2016-2018

Emily Huynh, B.S.
2020-2023

Aubriana McEvoy
2015-2017

Ilsa Juhlin
2015-2017

Maclean Cook
2015-2019

Ryan Carlson
2015-2017

Austin Anderson

Hannah Thomas
2014-2018

Jamil Qazi
2014-2017

Ata Moshiri
2013-2016

Ryan Doumani
2013-2015

Natalie Vandeven
2012-2018

Amy Bestick
2012-2015

Astrid Blom, MD
2012-2014

Lola Yelistratova
2012-2013

Chris Lewis

Miranda Schmidt
2011-2012

Kaushik Parvathaneni
2011-2015

Dafina Ibrani
2011-2013

Julia Dumesh
2010-2012

Tessa Marx

Stephanie Pietromonaco
2010-2011

Kotaro Nagase, MD, PhD
2010-2012

Natalie Miller
2010-2014

Natasha Lee
2010-2012

Paul Homer
2010-2012

Sherry Lee
2009-2011

Olga Afanasiev
2009-2013

Andrew Tegeder, MD
2009-2010

Jayasri Iyer, MD
2008-2014

Renee Thibodeau
2008-2010

Heather Sloan, RN
2008-2010

Jackie Malekirad
2008-2011

Galya Stetsenko, MD
2007-2009

Shinichi Koba, MD
2008-2010

Bianca Lemos, MD
2007-2009

L. Christine Fang, MD
2007-2009

Erin Higgins
2007-2009

Ashley Warcola-Street
2007-2008

John Pylman
2007

Erica Shantha, MD.
UW Derm Resident

Michelle Heath, MD
2006-2007

Natalia Jaimes, MD
2005-2006

Tim Heffernan, PhD
2005-2006

Michael Star
2005-2006

Pablo Penas, MD, PhD
2005

Seesha Takagishi

Martina Ulrich (Gellenthin), MD
2004-2005
Dermatology Faculty at Charite Hospital, Berlin

Douglas Levine
2004-2005

Sang-Wahn Koo, MD, PhD
2003-2005

Sheela Kerstetter (Gupta), MD
2003-2005

AImee Angle-Zahn
2003-2004

Jay Bradner, MD
2001-2002