Faculty & Staff

 
Gerald S. Lazarus, M.D., is chief of dermatology and director of the Johns Hopkins Wound Center at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. 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.

  
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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Ginette Hinds, M.D., 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.

 
Judith Warson, BSN, RN, clinical coordinator for the department of dermatology at Hopkins Bayview, received training in nursing at the Mercy Hospital School of Nursing, then earned a degree in nursing at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. She has also taken advantage of numerous educational offerings focusing on dermatology, nursing, phototherapy and management/mentoring techniques. Warson has been a part of the department of dermatology at Hopkins Bayview for over 25 years. She coordinates various aspects of the clinical program and has instructed numerous attendings, residents, nurses and other patient care providers.