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J Invest Dermatol2026;146(9):2587-2591.e1.September 1, 2026Journal Article

Incubating artificial intelligence initiatives and careers in dermatology.

Shannon Wongvibulsin1, Clare A Primiero2, Adewole S Adamson3, Catarina Barata4, Brigid Betz-Stablein5, M Emre Celebi6, Benoit Dawant7, Pascale Guitera8, Kristen M Kelly9, Harald Kittler10, Kivanc Kose11, Bennett Landman7, Julia S Lehman12, Yihao Liu7, Andrew McNeil7, Josep Malvehy13, Lara V Maul14, Aimee S Payne15, Inga Saknite16, Yevgeniy R Semenov17, H Peter Soyer2, Philipp Tschandl18, Vamsi Varra19, Lee Wheless20, Veronica M Rotemberg11, Eric R Tkaczyk21
1Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
2Frazer Institute, The University of Queensland, Dermatology Research Centre, Brisbane, Australia.
3Division of Dermatology, Dell Medical School, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA; JAMA Dermatology, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
4Institute for Systems and Robotics, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
5Canfield Scientific, Parsippany, New Jersey, USA.
6Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas, USA.
7Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
8Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; Sydney Melanoma Diagnostic Centre, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, Australia; Melanoma Institute Australia, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
9Department of Dermatology, University of California, Irvine, California, USA; Department of Surgery, University of California, Irvine, California, USA.
10Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
11Dermatology Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA.
12Department of Dermatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA; Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
13Dermatology Department, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain; University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Centre of Biomedical Research on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
14Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
15Department of Dermatology, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
16Department of Dermatology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA; Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia.
17Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
18Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; Comprehensive Centre for AI in Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
19Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
20Department of Dermatology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA; Tennessee Valley Healthcare System VA Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
21Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA; Department of Dermatology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA; Tennessee Valley Healthcare System VA Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Electronic address: eric.tkaczyk@vumc.org.
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