Elma Baron, M.D. - Dr. Baron received her medical degree from the University of the Philippines in Manila, Philippines. She pursued photodermatology and photomedicine through a clinical fellowship at the Dermatology Department of Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School before entering a photoimmunology fellowship at Case Western Reserve University. She is currently an associate professor in dermatology at University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve University, where she serves as the Director for the clinical Photomedicine Program and the Translational Research Core/Skin Study Center, which is a facility dedicated to the conduct of investigator-initiated human subject research in skin and skin biology. Through the Translational Research Core, Dr. Baron has pioneered the first human study using a novel photosensitizer drug, silicon phthalocyanine Pc 4, for photodynamic therapy of cutaneous malignancies including cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Dr. Baron also serves as chief of dermatology at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center.