Rox Anderson

Dr. Anderson practices dermatology at Massachusetts General Hospital and teaches at Harvard and MIT and serves on many clinical advisory boards and industry committees. He has conceived and developed many of the ground breaking laser treatments now widely used in medical care. He co-invented fractional laser treatment, and recently developed a new strategy for epidermal grafting of wounds. His research has advanced the basic knowledge of human skin photobiology, drug photosensitization mechanisms, tissue optics, and laser-tissue interactions. Dr. Anderson graduated from MIT, and then received his MD degree magna cum laude from the joint MIT-Harvard medical program, Health Sciences and Technology. After completing his dermatology residency and an NIH research fellowship at Harvard, he joined the faculty where he is now Harvard Medical School Professor in dermatology, Director of the Wellman Center for Photomedicine; and adjunct Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at MIT. Dr. Anderson has been awarded over 60 national and international patents, and has co-authored over 250 scientific books and papers.