Susan C. Taylor, MD, FAAD
Bernett Johnson Endowed Professor of Dermatology, Department of Dermatology
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
President, American Academy of Dermatology
Founder, Skin of Color Society
Susan C. Taylor is the Bernett Johnson Professor of Dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her medical degree from Harvard 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, alopecia, and central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia. 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 2025 President 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 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.