James Nordlund, MD Biography
 

Dr. Nordlund currently is Professor of Clinical Dermatology at the Wright State Boonschoft School of Medicine.  He took is training at Yale University where he remained on faculty for 14 years.  As a Professor, he was recruited as Chairman of Dermatology to the University of Cincinnati in 1983, a position he held for 16 years.  After stepping down, he spent a year in Tanzania at the Regional Dermatology Training Center, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center.  After returning, he left Cincinnati to join the faculty at Wright State.  His interests and work has been focused on skin color and in particular on vitiligo.  He has served in many administrative roles for the American Academy of Dermatology, the Society for Investigative Dermatology, the PanAmerican Society for Pigment Cell Research and the International Federation of Pigment Cell Societies.  He is the recipient of many honors and awards.  He has published over 120 scientific papers, as many chapters and reviews and several books mostly related to pigmentation.  He is the senior editor of the book, The Pigmentary System:  Physiology and Pathophysiology, the second edition of which was published in 2006.