Stephen Rothman Memorial Awardees
Kim Yancey, MD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX & Mark Udey, MD/PhD (retired)
A native of Georgia, Kim B. Yancey, M.D., is Professor and Chair of the Department of Dermatology at UT Southwestern Medical Center. After graduating from the University of Georgia, summa cum laude and valedictorian, he earned his medical degree (Alpha Omega Alpha) from the Medical College of Georgia and performed his residency training there. A National Institutes of Health-funded researcher for more than 25 years, Dr. Yancey completed a postdoctoral fellowship in immunodermatology in the Dermatology Branch of the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He is certified by the American Board of Dermatology, and also holds special competence in Dermatologic Immunology and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology.
In 1985, Dr. Yancey joined the faculty of the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland as an Assistant Professor of Dermatology and was later promoted to Associate Professor, serving as Acting Chairman from 1990 to 1993. At the Uniformed Services University he was the only dermatologist on the full-time faculty, with responsibilities primarily related to investigative work. He also provided clinical services as a supervising physician at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Bethesda Naval Hospital, and the National Institutes of Health. Further pursuing his interest in biomedical investigation, Dr. Yancey re-joined the Dermatology Branch of the National Cancer Institute in 1993 as a Tenured Senior Investigator at the NIH. His NIH laboratory focused on mechanisms of keratinocyte adhesion to epidermal basement membrane and the pathophysiologic basis of autoimmune and inherited blistering diseases.
In 2001, Dr. Yancey was invited to join the faculty of the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) in Milwaukee as Professor and Chair of the Department of Dermatology. He divided his time among clinical, teaching, research, and administrative responsibilities at MCW, Froedtert Hospital, and the Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Dr. Yancey joined UT Southwestern in 2007 as Professor and Chair of the Department of Dermatology. His professional efforts focus on research, clinical care, education, administrative activities, and directing a team of over 25 dermatologists.
Dr. Yancey is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Society for Investigative Dermatology, the Dermatology Foundation, the American Academy of Dermatology, the American Dermatological Association, and numerous other professional organizations. He is a former Director and Vice President of the American Board of Dermatology, a former President of the Society for Investigative Dermatology, a former Deputy Editor of the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, the current President of the Dermatology Foundation, a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Professors of Dermatology, and a member of several editorial boards.
He was included in D Magazine‘s Best Doctors list for 2018, 2020, 2021, and 2022. In 2007, he received the American Academy of Dermatology’s Marion Sulzberger Award. He has published numerous research manuscripts, monographs, and chapters, served on an array of grant review panels, and presented more than 150 scientific abstracts and invited lectures in the U.S. and abroad.
Dr. Mark Udey led a vigorous independent laboratory-based research program for more than 30 years. He trained at Washington University and Barnes Hospital in St. Louis and initiated his independent academic and research career at that institution. In 1989, Dr. Udey was recruited to the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda where he ultimately became Chief of the Dermatology Branch and a Deputy Director of NCI’s Center for Cancer Research. At NCI, Dr. Udey focused on dendritic cell and epithelial cell biology and cutaneous immunophysiology more globally. Dr. Udey joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Dermatology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis in June of 2017, and retired in 2022. He is an elected member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation, an elected member of the American Association of Physicians and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Dr. Udey is also a member of the Society of Investigative Dermatology (SID) and the European Society for Dermatologic Research (ESDR), and has actively participated in the SID and the Journal of Investigative dermatology (JID) throughout his career. He is a Past-President of the SID, a former member of the SID Board of Directors (2007-2012) and he Co-Chaired the SID Scientific Program Committee in 2006. In addition to serving as a frequent contributor to, and reviewer for, the JID, Dr. Udey has been an Associate (1997-2002 and 2012-2016) and a Section Chief (2002-2007). Dr. Udey also has extensive prior editorial experience in association with other highly-regarded, peer-reviewed journals. He functioned as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Immunology from 1995-1998 and as a Section Editor from 1998-2001. This experience overlapped with a term as a Member of the Board of Consulting Editors of the Journal of Clinical Investigation (JCI; 1998-2010) and he served as a Consulting Editor for the journal JCI Insight during its launch. Dr. Udey has additionally participated in the international investigative dermatology community as a Member of the International Advisory Board of the Journal of Dermatology (Japan) and as a Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Dermatological Science (Japan). Dr. Udey also served as the Editor of the Journal of Investigative Dermatology (JID) and served in that capacity from 2017 – 2022.
About the Award:
The Stephen Rothman Memorial Award is presented annually for distinguished service to investigative cutaneous medicine. The recipient of this award has made major scientific achievements and excelled as a teacher and recruiter of outstanding dermatologists. The recipient is also an individual who has distinctly altered the course and image of dermatology or its allied fields. It is the Society’s highest award.
