Faculty & Staff

 
Ginette Hinds, M.D., director of the Department of Dermatology at Johns Hopkins Bayview and assistant professor of dermatology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, earned a medical degree at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. She completed an internship in internal medicine at the University of Pennsylvania’s Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, followed by dermatology training at Yale University, where she also served as a chief resident.

A board-certified dermatologist, Dr. Hinds focuses on skin, hair and nail conditions of people with darker skin tones, such as people of african-american, asian, hispanic, middle eastern and native american descent. As director of the Ethnic Skin Program, she is committed to outstanding clinical care and research in the field of ethnic skin and to community outreach and enrichment. The Ethnic Skin Program focuses on diseases that disproportionately affect people with ethnic skin such as razor bumps, keloids, hair thinning, sarcoidosis, lupus and mycosis fungoides. Dr. Hinds also has clinical interests in general medical dermatology, cutaneous T-cell lymphoma and infectious diseases.

Dr. Hinds is a diplomate of the American Board of Dermatology, a founding member of the Young Physicians Taskforce of the Women’s Dermatologic society, and an active member of the American Academy of Dermatology, Dermatology Foundation, National Medical Association, Skin of Color Society and the Women’s Dermatologic Society. She also has authored articles and book chapters on general dermatology and in the field of ethnic skin.

  
Mitchell Klapper, M.D., has served as a full-time member of the dermatology faculty at Johns Hopkins Bayview since 1991. His clinical interests are general dermatology, skin cancer surgery and medical education.

  
Luis Garza, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of dermatology at the The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, practices both general dermatology and specialized wound care. In addition to treating patients, he runs a molecular biology laboratory, which studies skin stem cells and wound healing with an emphasis on identifying the next generation of wound therapeutics and diagnostics. Dr. Garza earned medical and graduate degrees at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He completed a residency in dermatology at the University of Michigan, and a fellowship in skin stem cells at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Gerald S. Lazarus, M.D., is former director of the Johns Hopkins Wound Center at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and a former chairman of dermatology at Duke University and The University of Pennsylvania, Lazarus established leading academic dermatological programs at both institutions. Before coming to Hopkins, he was dean and CEO at the University of California Davis School of Medicine and Health System. From 1999 to 2002, Lazarus served as a consultant to the president of Peking Union Medical College and the Minister of Health of China in Beijing.

 
Elisabeth G. Richard, M.D., assistant professor of dermatology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, practices general dermatology with interests in psoriasis, and phototherapy as treatment modality for psoriasis, eczema and other skin diseases.

Dr. Richard earned a medical degree from the University of Massachusetts and completed residency training in dermatology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. In addition to her practice experience in Baltimore, she practiced dermatology on the U.S. territory of Guam in the Pacific, where she accompanied her husband on his tour as a radiologist at U.S. Naval Hospital Guam. Her greatest professional satisfaction results from implementing a successful dermatologic treatment plan that is able to relieve some of the emotional strain and stress that burdens so many patients with chronic skin diseases.