Medical Advisory Board
leading experts in the fields of phototherapy and vitamin D research
Jashin J. Wu, MD, earned his bachelor’s degree and medical degree through the combined 7-year Honors Program in Medical Education at Northwestern University. He completed his dermatology residency at the University of California, Irvine, where he served as chief resident. In his 15 years of clinical practice, he has treated over 1500 psoriasis patients, of which over 1000 received an oral agent, biologic, or phototherapy. He is a past Medical Board member of the National Psoriasis Foundation and a Councilor for the International Psoriasis Council. He serves on the American Academy of Dermatology/NPF psoriasis guidelines committee, which published 6 updated psoriasis guidelines in 2019-2020. He is co-editor for six textbooks about psoriasis. He is associate editor for the 4th edition of Comprehensive Dermatologic Drug Therapy published in March 2020. He has written over 350 Pubmed articles, of which over 200 are about psoriasis. He is Past President of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Dermatological Society, Board Member of the California Society of Dermatology & Dermatologic Surgery (CalDerm), and Board Member of the Pacific Dermatology Association. Dr. Wu has given over 140 psoriasis lectures at medical conferences and dermatology departments/divisions in 11 countries. He is Founder and Course Director of the San Diego Dermatology Symposium and Founder and CEO of the Dermatology Research and Education Foundation.
Jan Dutz, MD, FRCPC
Medical Advisor
Dr. Dutz is a Professor at UBC and a scientist with the Child and Family Research Institute and the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute. He received his MD degree from Queen’s University. He continued with postgraduate training in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology (University of Toronto) and Dermatology (UBC). Dr. Dutz is a rheumatologist and dermatologist with special clinical interest in the cutaneous manifestations of autoimmunity and rheumatic disease. His research focus is the skin immune system and the manipulation of this system to promote immune responses and induce tolerance. He also works as a dermatological oncologist at the BC Cancer Agency, where his practice is focused on malignant melanoma and skin lymphoma. Dr. Dutz is committed to the development of translational research in skin disease in Canada, as evidenced by his role as president of the Canadian Society of Investigative Dermatology. He is also a past member of the CIHR Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis (IMHA) Advisory Board. Dr. Dutz has been the recipient of numerous honors and grants for research, and has co-authored over 130 scientific journal publications and 90 journal abstracts, as well as several book chapters.
Michael f. Holick, MD, PhD
Medical Advisor
Dr. Holick is Professor of Medicine, Physiology and Biophysics; Emeritus Chief of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition; Director of the General Clinical Research Unit; and Director of the Bone Health Care Clinic and the Director of the Heliotherapy, Light, and Skin Research Center at Boston University Medical Center. Dr. Holick holds a Ph.D. degree in biochemistry, and an MD from the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Holick has made numerous contributions to the field of the biochemistry, physiology, metabolism, and photobiology of vitamin D for human nutrition. He has established global recommendations advising sunlight exposure as an integral source of vitamin D and helped increase awareness in the pediatric and medical communities regarding vitamin D deficiency pandemic, and its role not only in causing metabolic bone disease and osteoporosis in adults, but increasing risk of children and adults developing multiple diseases. Dr. Holick is a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine, a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition, and a member of the American Academy of Dermatology and the American Association of Physicians. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the American Skin Association’s Psoriasis Research Achievement Award, the American College of Nutrition award, the Robert H. Herman Memorial Award in Clinical Nutrition from the American Society for Clinical Nutrition, the Annual General Clinical Research Centers’ Program Award for Excellence in Clinical Research, the Linus Pauling Functional Medicine Award from the Institute for Functional Medicine, the Linus Pauling Prize for Human Nutrition, the DSM Innovation Award, and the AACC Outstanding Speaker Award. He has authored more than 400 peer-reviewed publications, and written more than 200 review articles, as well as numerous book chapters. He has acted as editor and/or co-editor on 13 books, and wrote The UV Advantage in 2004 and The Vitamin D Solution in 2010.
Frank h. lau, MD, FACS
Medical Advisor
Frank H. Lau, MD, FACS, completed his undergraduate studies in Molecular Biochemistry & Biophysics at Yale. He graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor with Research Honors. Dr. Lau then entered the Harvard Combined Plastic Surgery Training Program. During residency, he completed a two-year research fellowship at the Simches Center for Regenerative Medicine in Boston. His research focused on adipose physiology and stem cells. Following residency, Dr. Lau joined the LSU Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Residency Program, where is currently an Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery. He divides his time between clinical practice and research. He is the principal investigator of a tissue engineering and breast cancer research lab and is the recipient of 18 grants. His research interests include breast cancer, vitamin D insufficiency in COVID-19, incisional hernia prevention, pyoderma gangrenosum, regenerative approaches to limb salvage, and diseases of white adipose tissue. He has designed and administered multiple prospective, randomized clinical trials. He is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in multiple fields, having authored 39 peer reviewed publications and given many scientific presentations.
Ganesh Raghu, MD
Medical Advisor
Ganesh Raghu, MD, is a board-certified physician at UW Medical Center, director of the UW Interstitial Lung Disease/Sarcoid/Pulmonary Fibrosis Program, Co-Director of the UW Medicine Scleroderma Clinic, a UW professor of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, and an adjunct professor of Laboratory Medicine. Dr. Raghu also previously served as the Director and Medical Director of the UW Medicine Lung Transplant Program, which he founded in 1991. Dr. Raghu earned his medical degree from Mysore Medical College in India. He is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Critical Care. Dr. Raghu’s 30+ years of research is devoted to both basic science (lung fibroblast and extracellular matrix) and translational and clinical studies in the field of pulmonary fibrosis, idiopathic interstitial pneumonias and sarcoid. Dr. Raghu has had a longstanding clinical and scientific interest focused on pathogenesis, diagnosis and management of Interstitial Lung Diseases (ILD), idiopathic interstitial pneumonia (IIP), Sarcoid, Rheumatological lung diseases, and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). He is an international authority in these disorders and has authored over 300 original articles which have been published in peer reviewed medical journals. Dr. Raghu serves on several national and international committees for management of ILD and IPF as well as in the National institute’s of Health (NIH,USA) lung biology and pathology study section. Above all, Dr. Raghu is a longstanding patient advocate and actively sees and manages patients with ILD every week at the Center for ILD at University of Washington.
Keith Vaux, MD
Medical Advisor
Keith Vaux, MD is Physician in Chief and Chief Medical Officer of Human Longevity Inc. He is a medical geneticist as well as a pediatric and general medicine specialist in San Diego, CA with over 27 years of experience. Dr. Vaux graduated from University of Chicago / The Pritzker School of Medicine in 1994 and completed residency at Naval Medical Center San Diego with a year as Chief Resident. He then completed a Fellowship at the University of California San Diego in Dysmorphology, Teratology, and Medical Genetics. He retired as a Professor of Clinical Medicine at UC San Diego and currently is on the medical staff of Rady Children's Hospital San Diego and Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women and Newborns. He specializes in rare human diseases with a focus on diagnostic dilemmas and is experienced in autism, neurodegeneration, intellectual disability, and neurogenetics. His work has been published in top peer reviewed medical journals including Cell, Science, Nature Genetics, Pediatrics, American Journal of Medical Genetics as well as numerous other journals.