José M. Mascaró Jr., MD.

Associate Professor of Dermatology, Hospital Clínic and Barcelona University Medical School and Director of both the Immunodermatopathology Unit and the ten-bed Inpatients Unit.

Dr. José M. Mascaró Jr. is an Associate Professor of Dermatology at Hospital Clínic and Barcelona University Medical School, Barcelona, Spain. Dr. Mascaró is a medical graduate of the University of Barcelona where he obtained his degree in 1988. In 1990, after medical school, he began a residency in Dermatology in the Department of Dermatology of the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Spain.

From December 1995 until January 1997, he did a two-year research fellowship in Immunodermatology in the Department of Dermatology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, under the direction of Prof. Luis A. Diaz. He is also trained in Dermatopathology, and in 2004 obtained the Diploma in Dermatopathology from the International Board of Dermatopathology.

Since 2000 he has been working in the Department of Dermatology of the Hospital Clinic and University of Barcelona, were he is currently the Director of both the Immunodermatopathology Unit and the ten-bed Inpatients Unit.

His main interests are autoimmune cutaneous diseases, dermatological manifestations of transplant patients, and dermatopathology. Dr. Mascaró serves on the Editorial Boards of three dermatology journals, has published 75 articles both in international and Spanish journals, and has contributed chapters to 20 dermatology textbooks.