Susan C. Taylor is the Bernett Johnson Professor of Dermatology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School and is a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Dermatology.

Dr. Taylor’s clinical and research focus includes pigmentary disorders, acne, and alopecia. Her work has focused on advancing clinical knowledge and addressing gaps in central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia. She also serves as Principal Investigator for Phase II through Phase IV clinical research trials. Dr. Taylor has over 100 original publications as well as five books, including Taylor and Kelly’s Dermatology for Skin of Color. She lectures both nationally and internationally.

Dr. Taylor is the 2024 President-elect of the American Academy of Dermatology. Dr. Taylor was the recipient of the AAD’s 2022 Inaugural John Kenney Jr. Lifetime Achievement Award and Lectureship. Dr. Taylor was the 2022 recipient of the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching from the Perelman School of Medicine.

Professor Taylor is a Fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology, and a member of the American Dermatological Association, the Skin of Color Society and the Women’s Dermatologic Society. She serves on the editorial boards of Archives in Dermatologic Research, Cutis, and Practical Dermatology and is a peer reviewer for several other journals, including Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, British Journal of Dermatology, JAMA Dermatology, and Journal of Drugs in Dermatology.