Dr. Kwatra is the Joseph W. Burnett Endowed Professor and Chairman of Dermatology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD, USA. His areas of clinical expertise include chronic pruritus, prurigo nodularis, atopic dermatitis, and dermatology for ethnic skin. He is funded by the National Institutes of Health and multiple foundations. He runs a basic and translational research laboratory along with a clinical trials unit and is funded by the National Institutes of Health and has been an author or co-author on over 250 publications. He is currently the Secretary-Treasurer of the Skin of Color Society and a member of the National Eczema Society Scientific and Medical Advisory Council.