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Emma Guttman-Yassky, MD, PhD, Professor of Dermatology and Immunology, Vice Chair of the Department of Dermatology, Director of the Center for Excellence in Eczema, and the Laboratory of Inflammatory Skin Diseases at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York.　She earned her M.D. from Sackler in Tel-Aviv, and a Ph.D. from Bar-Ilan, Israel. After her Israeli Board certification in dermatology, Dr. Guttman moved to the U.S. to pursue a postdoctoral fellowship at The Rockefeller University and a second dermatology residency at Weill-Cornell, NY. Dr. Guttman’s major focus is atopic dermatitis/AD. She made paradigm-shifting discoveries on the immunologic basis of AD in humans, enriching the understanding of its pathophysiology, opening the door to new therapeutics. Dr. Guttman has developed comprehensive molecular maps of AD, defining skin differentiation and immune-circuits characterizing this disease. She has established the reversibility of the AD phenotype and defined a series of biomarkers that are now accelerating testing of novel pathway-specific drugs for AD. She has co-founded the international eczema council/IEC, for which she functions as president-elect. She was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation/ASCI, the American Dermatological Society/ADA, and received the Young Investigator Award (2011) from the AAD.