Rachael A. Clark, MD, PhD
• Vice Chair, Research, Department of Dermatology
• Shing-Yiu Yip and Cecilia M. Hepp Professor of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School
• Associate Dermatologist, Dermatology, Brigham And Women’s Hospital
Dr. Clark is a physician scientist, a dermatologist and a human immunologist. She serves as the Shing-Yiu Yip and Cecilia M. Hepp Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School, Director of the NIAMS P30 funded Human Skin Disease Resource Center, and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Dermatology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Dr. Clark divides her time between patient care, teaching, translational research and taking care of two Maine coon cats, two parrots, a horse, and quite a few children. Her research focuses on the study of human T cell responses in skin and other peripheral tissues, including T cell function in healthy skin, impaired T cell responses in skin cancers, and maladaptive T cell activation in inflammatory skin diseases and cutaneous lymphomas. Her studies, driven by observations in patients and carried out on human tissues, have the goals of developing novel therapies for skin disease and advancing our understanding of human immunology.