Anthony Alfred Gaspari

Anthony Alfred Gaspari, M.D. is a dermatologist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has been in practice for more than 30 years. His clinical interests are in allergic and autoimmune skin diseases. He runs a busy diagnostic patch testing clinic in his outpatient practice, and also supervises the cutaneous immunopathology laboratory within the department of Dermatology. His laboratory research is focused on the role of epidermal keratinocytes in controlling T-cell mediated inflammation in the skin. He earned a bachelorâ??s degree from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1976. He earned a medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in 1981. He attended Emory University School of Medicine for his Dermatology Residency from 1983 to 1985. After his residency, he took a post-doctoral fellowship in cutaneous immunology at the Dermatology Branch of the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, M.D. from 1985 to 1989. He then joined the faculty at the University Of Rochester School Of Medicine in Rochester, New York where he rose to the rank of Associate Professor, with tenure, in the Department of Dermatology. He held secondary appointments in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, as well as in the Cancer Center. He joined the Department of Dermatology at University of Maryland School of Medicine in 2001 to take the Albert Shapiro Professorship. He was named Interim Chair of the Department in 2003, and was named permanent chair in 2005. He is internationally recognized for his work on cutaneous immunology and he has been invited to speak at numerous international meetings related to Dermatology, Immunology and Toxicology in Istanbul, Turkey, Naples, Italy and most recently in Berlin, Germany. He has gained the worldâ??s attention for his role in the Dermatologist volunteering his efforts in Indonesia, and assisting a team of Doctors attempting to diagnosis and treat the â??Treemanâ?? of Indonesia (Dede Kosawa).