Dr. Firdaus S. Dhabhar is a tenured professor at the University of Miami. He is the Director of the Laboratory of Stress and Resilience in Health and Healing and a faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry, the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. He received his BS and BA from Dartmouth College in 1990 and his Ph.D. in Biomedical Science from Rockefeller University in 1996. Dr. Firdaus S. Dhabhar has received the Council of Graduate Schools Distinguished Dissertation Award, the PsychoNeuroImmunology Society's Young Investigator Award for Outstanding Research, the Fields Award for Excellence in Research & Teaching, induction to the Omicron Kappa Upsilon Honor Society, and the ISPNE Society’s Richter Award for Excellence in Psychoneuroendocrinology. Dr. Firdaus S. Dhabhar was also a finalist for the 2016 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award and has served on several advisory panels at the National Academies of Science.
Dr. Gil Yosipovitch is a tenured Professor of Dermatology at the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami and Director of the Miami Itch Center. Before joining the faculty of the University of Miami, Dr. Gil Yosipovitch chaired the Department of Dermatology at Temple University. He directed the first translational, clinical, and research center dedicated to the study of chronic itch in the US. He has been awarded dozens of grants from the government and industry and private foundations. He is the founder and past president of the International Forum for the Study of Itch and has served on the editorial boards of six key specialty journals. He received one of the highest awards in dermatology, the Marion B. Sulzberger lectureship award, at the 2016 AAD meeting. Dr. Gil Yosipovitch was awarded several other prestigious awards for his research and work, including the Heinz Maurer prize by the German Dermatology Society in 1998, the Clinical Investigator Award of Wake Forest University, the inaugural Jeff Bernhard award in the World Conference of Itch in 2013, and the highest award of Wroclaw University Medical School in 2017.
