04/15/2025
Congratulations to the 2025 Mentorship Grant Award recipients! The awards were presented at the AHRS Scientific Session & Luncheon at the AAD meeting recently.
Pictured here are grant award recipients, several mentors, and several members from the Mentorship committee.
Here are all the mentees, named here with their mentors: (Some not pictured)
-Akriti Agrawal, MD, DNB, PDCC, Dermatology Resident
Mentor: Antonella Tosti, MD, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Trichoscopic findings in non-scarring alopecia
-Genaro Briseño Gascón, MDm, Dermatopathology Resident
Mentor: Mariya Miteva, MD, University of Miami
Fibrosing alopecia in a pattern distribution
-Alicia Edwards, MS, Medical Student
Mentor: Deborah Scott, MD, Harvard Medical School
Evaluating the Impact of Common Ingredients in Ethnic Hair Care Products: A Review of Benefits, Risks, and Consumer Concerns
-Mitchell Hanson, BS, Medical Student
Mentor: Natasha Mesinkovska, MD, PhD, University of California Irvine
Effects of GLP-1 Agonists on Inflammation and Metabolism in Scarring and Nonscarring Alopecia: Population Trends and Patient Perspectives
-Emilly Neves Souza, MD, Trainee
Mentor: Maryanne Makredes Senna, MD, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center; Harvard Medical School, Aging hair and scalp disorders in postmenopausal women - clinical features, psychosocial impacts, diagnosis and management
-Sofia Perez, BS, Medical Student
Mentor: Maryanne Makredes Senna, MD, Beth Israel Lahey Health Hospital and Medical Center, Incidence and characteristics of frontal fibrosing alopecia and its clinical variants
-Barbara Wiese, MD, Dermatology Resident
Mentor Maria Hordinsky, MD, FAAD, University of Minnesota
"Red islands", a new trichoscopic finding in FAPD
-Kimberly Williams, BS, Medical Student
Mentor: Amy McMichael, MD, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Scarring alopecias and associated comorbidities in skin of color
The AHRS Mentorship Program supports young physicians, veterinarians, and scientists (including MD, DVM, and PhD students) to develop a mentoring relationship with an established hair researcher in order for them to acquire additional academic or research skills that will further their careers as leaders in hair research.
For more information on the program, visit:
https://americanhairresearchsociety.org/mentorship-grant-program/
