2025 Mentorship Grant Awardees with some mentors and members of the Mentorship Committee

Mentorship-Awardees-2025

2025 AHRS Mentorship Grants:

8 grants, totaling $14,500

  1. Akriti Agrawal, MD, DNB, PDCC, Antonella Tosti, MD, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Trichoscopic findings in non-scarring alopecia
  2. Genaro Briseño Gascón, MDm, Mariya Miteva, MD, University of Miami, Fibrosing alopecia in a pattern distribution
  3. Alicia Edwards, MS, Deborah Scott, MD, Harvard Medical School, Evaluating the Impact of Common Ingredients in Ethnic Hair Care Products: A Review of Benefits, Risks, and Consumer Concerns
  4. Mitchell Hanson, BS, Natasha Mesinkovska, MD, PhD, University of California Irvine, Effects of GLP-1 Agonists on Inflammation and Metabolism in Scarring and Nonscarring Alopecia: Population Trends and Patient Perspectives
  5. Emilly Neves Souza, MD, Maryanne Makredes Senna, MD, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center; Harvard Medical School, Aging hair and scalp disorders in postmenopausal women - clinical features, psychosocial impacts, diagnosis and management
  6. Sofia Perez, BS, Maryanne Makredes Senna, MD, Beth Israel Lahey Health Hospital and Medical Center, Incidence and characteristics of frontal fibrosing alopecia and its clinical variants
  7. Barbara Wiese, MD, Maria Hordinsky, MD, FAAD, University of Minnesota "Red islands", a new trichoscopic finding in FAPD
  8. Kimberly Williams, BS, Amy McMichael, MD, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Scarring alopecias and
    associated comorbidities in skin of color

Committee:

  • John Sundberg, Chair
  • Valerie Callender
  • Dirk Elson
  • Amy McMichael
  • Paradi Mirmirani
  • Christopher Potter
  • Curtis Thompson
  • Koen van de Wetering

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