Russell P. Hall III, MD

Russell P. Hall III, MD

ISID President, 2020-2024

Dr. Hall is the J. Lamar Callaway Distinguished Professor of Dermatology, in the School of Medicine at Duke University. Dr. Hall was trained in internal medicine and dermatology at St. Louis University, the University of Missouri- Columbia and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He completed a research fellowship in the Dermatology Branch of the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health. After 5 years at the NIH joined Duke’s faculty as an assistant professor of medicine in 1984. He served as the Chief of the Division of Dermatology at Duke from 1998-2009, then as Chair of the newly established Department of Dermatology at Duke from 2009-2021.

Dr. Hall’s research interest include immune mediated skin diseases. His lab has focused on examining how gastrointestinal inflammation can lead to the development of inflammatory skin disease, including dermatitis herpetiformis. Current studies are focused on the role of B cells, autoantibodies and B cell directed therapy in the treatment and in understanding the pathogenesis of autoimmune blistering skin diseases. His clinical research has focused on the development and implementation of new therapeutic interventions for the treatment of autoimmune blistering diseases such as pemphigus and bullous pemphigoid.

Dr. Hall has served as the deputy editor for the Journal of Investigative Dermatology and is currently the Editor of the JID Innovations. Dr. Hall is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Society for Investigative Dermatology and honorary member of Société Française de Dermatologie and the Japanese Society for Investigative Dermatology. He has also served as the Secretary-Treasurer and President of the Society for Investigative Dermatology and as the President of the International Societies for Investigative Dermatology.