John E. Harris MD, PhD

Dr. Harris directs the Vitiligo Clinic and Research Center at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS), which incorporates a specialty clinic for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with vitiligo, as well as a vitiligo research laboratory. He uses basic, translational, and clinical research approaches to better understand autoimmunity in vitiligo, with a particular focus on developing more effective treatments.

He earned his MD/PhD degrees at UMMS, and entered a combined research/residency program in dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, where his postdoctoral research focused on the development of a mouse model of vitiligo with epidermal depigmentation. He now advises multiple graduate students, MD/PhD students, and postdoctoral fellows in his research laboratory at UMMS, and teaches medical students and residents in his vitiligo clinic.

Dr. Harris has authored multiple research publications and textbook chapters on vitiligo and other topics, serves on a number of advisory boards and committees, and is a consultant and collaborator with multiple pharmaceutical companies.