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About SKINTELLAGENT: Dermatology Undressed

SKINTELLAGENT: Dermatology Undressed is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing public understanding of dermatology’s essential role in healthcare. Our mission is to educate, through our captivating, illustrative, and fascinating media and materials how the skin can serve as a vital diagnostic window into systemic disease and internal pathologies. Through educational media, outreach, and community collaborations, we work to improve early detection, strengthen patient outcomes, and promote a deeper awareness of the life-saving impact dermatology has across medicine. Through its education of the general public and medical professionals about the deeper window atypical skin conditions may provide to internal pathologies, SKINTELLAGENT empowers individuals and professionals to reach diagnoses more quickly, reducing healthcare costs and saving lives.

At the core of this work is the development and distribution of accessible educational resources, including our signature docuseries that highlights real stories where dermatologic findings lead to critical diagnoses. These programs are designed to educate and captivate the public, while also offering healthcare providers additional insights into recognizing skin signs that may point to underlying internal disease. Beyond the publicly available, free educational docuseries, SKINTELLAGENT advances its mission through other public education efforts, including podcasts, and social media outreach programming.

SKINTELLAGENT was founded by Dr. Lindsay Ackerman, a board-certified dermatologist nationally recognized for her expertise in complex medical dermatology. SKINTELLAGENT is led by a Board of eight individuals with diverse professional backgrounds in medicine, business and finance, ethics and religious leadership, and communications and social media, all of whom have dedicated many hours of their lives to service in their communities. All the programs and work of SKINTELLAGENT are focused solely on serving the nonprofit’s mission of education with the ultimate purpose of aiding in more rapid diagnosis of disease, reducing healthcare costs, and saving lives. Every resource developed, every donation received, and every program launched by SKINTELLAGENT is directed toward creating measurable public benefit through education, community outreach, and raising awareness of the critical value of understanding abnormal skin findings.

By supporting SKINTELLAGENT, you are helping to educate the public and medical professionals about the critical role an abnormal skin finding can play in leading to earlier diagnoses of underlying disease, reducing healthcare costs, and resulting in better outcomes for patients everywhere.

Strengthening Education through Awareness

Skin disease presents in various forms, and with a variety of consequences.

All too often, the public impression is that dermatology pertains to the superficial and relatively medically unimportant, or is limited to aesthetic enhancement.

In complex medical dermatology, that couldn’t be further from the truth.

Meet Our Board of Directors

Lindsay Ackerman, MD, Board-Certified Dermatologist

Lindsay Ackerman is a board-certified dermatologist and fellowship trained complex medical dermatologist. Dr. Ackerman is an Associate Professor of Dermatology at University of Arizona College of Medicine, and is a practicing dermatologist involved in the training of medical students and residents.Dr. Ackerman founded SKINTELLAGENT: Dermatology Undressed to show that skin findings are far from skin deep. Through her content, she highlights how skin can reveal internal disease, raises visibility for rare conditions, reduces stigma, and demonstrates the unique expertise of medical dermatologists.

Mari Chernow

Rabbi Chernow has an impressive career and inspiring record of Jewish influence and study, serving in prominent Jewish leadership roles both locally and nationally. She formerly held the position of senior rabbi at Temple Chai in Phoenix for 16 years before returning "home" to Los Angeles where she was installed as the senior rabbi at Temple Israel of Hollywood in 2021. Her passions include the Jewish healing movement, and putting humanity at the center of Jewish education and practice.

Mara Haseltine, MD, Board-Certified Dermatologist

Dr. Mara Haseltine is a Board-Certified Dermatologist in private practice in Metairie, Louisiana where she practices medical and cosmetic dermatology. She completed a one-year medical dermatology fellowship after residency at Tulane University Medical School. She handles complex medical dermatology cases and is co-director of the Cutaneous T Cell Lymphoma Clinic at University Medical Center in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Margaret Kessler, MD, Board-certified Dermatologist

Dr. Kessler is a board-certified dermatologist, and Assistant Professor of Dermatology at University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix. She specializes in both inpatient and outpatient Dermatology, caring for a breadth of patients from early childhood through the life-cycle. Dr. Kessler is a tireless patient advocate, engaged leader in clinical practice, and specializes in educating medical students and residents in the evaluation and management of Dermatologic disease.

Veronica Lopez, MBA

Retired asset manager turned retail operations professional with a passion for making organizations more efficient, adaptable, and keenly customer service driven. Early social media content creator who now helps other organizations and retailers maximize their social media footprint while remaining true to their initial vision of who they are and who they represent.

Stacey Moore, CEO & Managing Director, Physician Resources, LLC

Ms. Moore is a leader in dermatology medical communications and non-profit management with extensive experience developing innovative high-quality educational programs for healthcare professionals. She has directed national and global conferences, fostering collaboration among clinicians, industry, and professional societies to advance dermatology practice and consistent care. Her work developing CME-accredited content and fostering meaningful industry partnerships through evidence-based education and resources reflects a commitment to the dermatology specialty spanning more than 25 years.

Lori Porter, DO, Board-Certified Internist

Dr. Lori Porter is a board-certified internal medicine physician, specializing in academic hospital medicine. She is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, and spent her career caring for patients of varied socioeconomic backgrounds and a vast array of acute medical needs, while training medical students and residents to do so with a holistic approach to patient care. Dr. Porter lends intimate insight into the unique needs of hospitalized patients that face additional challenges due to lack of access, resources, and healthcare literacy.

Vicky Schwartz Levy, MBA

Vicky's professional expertise spans nearly 30 years of guiding businesses dedicated to global life sciences and healthcare strategy around the world. Her focus on patient-centric outcomes has guided her ability to champion transformative science within organizations, and the development of indispensable leaders and teams in life sciences and the health care sectors.