Outgoing chairs

The following chairs of Academy councils and committees completed their terms on March 31, 2026.

Outgoing council and committee chairs

Roopal Vashi Kundu, MD, FAAD
Council on Communications

Seemal R. Desai, MD, FAAD
Academy Former Presidents Committee

Klint Peebles, MD, FAAD
Access to Dermatologic Care Committee

Murad Alam, MD, MSCI, MBA, FAAD
Appointment Selection Committee

J. Matthew Knight, MD, FAAD
Congressional Policy Committee

Robert Swerlick, MD, FAAD
DataDerm Oversight Committee

Alina G. Bridges, DO, FAAD
Dermatopathology Committee

Rebecca Vasquez, MD, FAAD
Diversity Committee

Steven T. Chen, MD, MPH, FAAD
Education and Volunteers Abroad Committee

Esther Ellen Freeman, MD, PhD, FAAD
Emerging Diseases Task Force

Susan C. Taylor, MD, FAAD
Executive Committee

Gisele Viana Oliveira, MD, MSc, PhD, IFAAD
International Affairs Committee

Chesahna Kindred, MD, MBA, FAAD
Intersociety Diversity Task Force

Marta Jane Van Beek, MD, MPH, FAAD
MIPS Value Pathways Committee

Molly A. Hinshaw, MD, FAAD
Mohs Micrographic Surgery Committee

Adam J. Friedman, MD, FAAD
Nominating Committee

Lara Wine Lee, MD, FAAD
Patient Advocate Task Force

Shani Francis, MD, MBA, FAAD
Performance Measurement Committee

Ellen S. Marmur, MD, FAAD
Philanthropic Relations Committee

Tejesh Patel, MD, FAAD
Practice Management Committee

Michael G Wilkerson, MD, MS, FAAD
Regulatory Policy Committee

Fatima Mirza, MD, MPH
Residents/Fellows Committee

Robert Sidbury, MD, MPH, FAAD
Scientific Assembly Committee

Aliya Courtney Hines, MD, PhD, FAAD
State Policy Committee

Conner Chan, MD, FAAD
State Society Relationships Committee

Amber R. Atwater, MD, FAAD
Sulzberger Dermatologic Institute and Education Grants Committee

Abdul-Ghani M. Kibbi, MD, IFAAD
World Congress Fund Review Task Force

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