Emma Guttman-Yassky, MD, PhD is the Waldman Professor of Dermatology and Immunology and the health system chair of the department of dermatology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York. She is also the director of the center for excellence in eczema and the laboratory for inflammatory skin diseases. She earned her M.D. from Sackler School of Medicine at the Tel-Aviv University, and a Ph.D. degree from the Bar-Ilan University, Israel. After her first Board certification in dermatology in Israel, Dr. Guttman  moved to the U.S. to pursue a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at The Rockefeller University in the Laboratory for Investigative Dermatology. Upon completion of her fellowship, she became board-certified by the American Board of dermatology, after completing a second dermatology residency training at Weill-Cornell Medical College, in NY. Dr. Guttman’s major research focus areas are atopic dermatitis (AD)/eczema and hair loss disorders. Her research made paradigm-shifting discoveries on the immunologic basis of AD/eczema in adults and children with atopic dermatitis, enriching the understanding of the pathophysiology of this common disorder, opening the door for novel, pathway-specific drugs in this disease. Recently, Dr. Guttman extended her research interest to hair loss disorders such as alopecia areata and scarring hair loss disorders, chronic hand eczema, keloids, ichthyosis, and other skin diseases, in which her findings are also translated to novel therapeutics. She has recently made paradigm changing discoveries linking alopecia areata to the atopic/allergic march, with therapeutic implications. Dr. Guttman
co-founded the international eczema council (IEC) and is its immediate past president.
Dr. Guttman received many national and international awards (e.g the AAAAI Award for Scientific Innovation and for pioneering discoveries, AAD Young Investigator award, etc). She was elected as a member to the  American Society for Clinical Investigation/ASCI, and the American Dermatological Society/ADA. She is a cofounder and organizer of one of the most important global meetings in dermatology, the Inflammatory Skin Disease Summit (ISDS), and serves on the editorial board of several high impact journals. Dr. Gutman delivered many keynote and plenary presentations in international and national meetings and authored >370 peer-reviewed
publications.