Faculty Awards 2025

Faculty Awards 2025

Faculty at the Kimberly and Eric J. Waldman Department of Dermatology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai received a number of awards in 2025.

Emma Guttman, MD, PhD

Invitation to join Prix Galien Bridges Awards Committee Jury. Since 1970, the Prix Galien awards have been celebrated as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in the life sciences industry.

“Highly Cited Researcher 2024 in Clinical Medicine” award by Clarivate.

“Highly Cited Researcher 2024 in Immunology” award by Clarivate. Of the world’s population of scientists and social scientists, Highly Cited Researchers are 1 in 1,000.

Notified to be the recipient of the International Tovi Comet-Walerstein award for meaningful contributions to translational medicine and development of new treatments.

Organized the No. 1 meeting in inflammatory skin diseases, 6th Inflammatory Skin Disease Summit, ISDS at New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY, with >900 registrants/attendees in November 2025.

Mark Lebwohl, MD

Reuben Reifler Memorial Lecture at the Georgia Society of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery, Congress of Clinical Dermatology.

Stone Lectureship at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine.

2nd Annual Swerlick Lecture on Complex Medical Dermatology at Emory University School of Medicine.

Cullman Family Award for Excellence in Provider Communication 2025.

Marsha Gordon, MD

Cullman Family Award for Excellence in Provider Communication 2025, for the 10th consecutive year.

Jesse Lewin, MD

Clinical Excellence in Melanoma and Skin Cancer Award 2025 from the American Skin Association.

Serves as an International Psoriasis Council (IPC) councilor.

Patrick Brunner, MD

ASA Calder Investigative Scientist Award in Vitiligo.

2025 ASA Research Achievement Award in Skin Cancer and Melanoma.

Nicholas Gulati, MD, PhD

The Teacher of the Year 2025, Outstanding Dedication to Resident Education Award.

Saakshi Khattri, MD

Serves on the National Psoriasis Foundation (NPF) Medical Board.

Serves as an International Psoriasis Council (IPC) councilor.

Selected to participate in the 2025 Academic Dermatology Leadership Program (ADLP).

Brian Kim, MD

Co-Organizer, Cell Symposia in Partnership with the Allen Discovery Center for Neuroimmune Interactions: The Neuro-Immune Axis: Charting the Periphery, New York, NY.

Chair, Advancing Innovation in Dermatology in partnership with the Allen Discovery Center for Neuroimmune Interactions, Dermatology Summit, The Emerging Paradigm of Mast Cell Therapeutics, San Francisco, CA.

Hongzhen Hu, PhD

Plenary lecture, 9th International Congress on Neuropathic Pain, NeuPSIG 2025 in Berlin titled: “Spinal Cord Mechanisms That Promote and Modulate Neuropathic Pain.”

Co-Chair, Cell Symposia in Partnership with the Allen Discovery Center for Neuroimmune Interactions: The Neuro-Immune Axis: Charting the Periphery, New York, NY.

Chair, Mini-symposium: Neuroimmune Interactions in the Periphery at Society for Neuroscience, SFN 2025, San Diego, CA.

Michel Enamorado, PhD

Was selected for the 2025 Leadership Emerging in Academic Departments (LEAD) Program at Mount Sinai.

2025 Early Career Investigator Award Keystone Symposia Scholarship, at Interoception 2025: Neural Sensing and Control of Organ Function, in Seattle, WA.

Leadership Scholar Award from the Accelerating Medicines Partnership® Autoimmune and Immune-Mediated Diseases Leadership Scholars Program (AMP® AIM LSP) consortium.

Shruti Naik, PhD

Leadership Scholar Award from the Accelerating Medicines Partnership® Autoimmune and Immune-Mediated Diseases Leadership Scholars Program (AMP® AIM LSP) consortium

Nicholas Brownstone, MD

2025 International Psoriasis Council Fellowship Award.

Danielle Dubin, MD

Top Teacher 2025, Resident Education Award, Distinguished Dedication to Resident Education Award.


2025 Award Highlights

Two of our residents won prizes at the Annual Stritzler Resident Competition at the Dermatologic Society of Greater New York (DSGNY) in February 2025. This was the second year in a row our Department was recognized:

Marguerite Meariman, MD, then PGY2, won first place by presenting: “Brepocitinib induces clinical improvement in patients with cicatricial alopecia and attenuates scalp inflammatory biomarkers.”

Kristina Navrazhina, MD, PhD, then PGY2, won third place by presenting: “Tape strip detects molecular alterations and cutaneous biomarkers in early- and late-stage hidradenitis suppurativa.”

Scott Stratman, MD

• Chief resident PGY4, he presented at American Academy of Dermatology annual meeting in Orlando, Florida: “Janus Kinase Inhibitors in the Management of Granuloma Annulare: A Case Series.”

• Awarded the Harold L. Johnson Memorial Scholarship through the American Board of Wound Management.

Madeline Kim, MD, PGY2, prepared an article “Alopecia areata exhibits cutaneous and systemic OX40 activation across atopic backgrounds” that was selected as part of the Icahn School of Medicine’s Resident/Fellow Publication of the Month series.

Andrea Muñoz Zamora, PhD, postdoctoral fellow in the Enamorado Lab, was awarded the 2025 Cancer Research Institute (CRI) Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship for her research project: “In search of immune engrams: mapping the brain’s memory of systemic inflammation.” This is a highly competitive fellowship.