Dr. Gil Yosipovitch is a tenured Professor of Dermatology at the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami and Director of the Miami Itch Center. Before joining the faculty of the University of Miami, Dr. Gil Yosipovitch chaired the Department of Dermatology at Temple University. He directed the first translational, clinical, and research center dedicated to the study of chronic itch in the US. He has been awarded dozens of grants from the government and industry and private foundations. He is the founder and past president of the International Forum for the Study of Itch and has served on the editorial boards of six key specialty journals. He received one of the highest awards in dermatology, the Marion B. Sulzberger lectureship award, at the 2016 AAD meeting. Dr. Gil Yosipovitch was awarded several other prestigious awards for his research and work, including the Heinz Maurer prize by the German Dermatology Society in 1998, the Clinical Investigator Award of Wake Forest University, the inaugural Jeff Bernhard award in the World Conference of Itch in 2013, and the highest award of Wroclaw University Medical School in 2017.