Leslie Castelo-Soccio, MD, PhD – Norwood Lecturer
Associate Director of Clinical Research, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Dr. Castelo-Soccio will speak on: The Microbiome and Hair Loss
Leslie Castelo-Soccio, MD, PhD, received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University and her medical and doctoral degrees from Cornell University. After training in dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania, she completed a pediatric dermatology fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a post-doctoral fellowship in the laboratory of George Cotsarelis, MD at the University of Pennsylvania and served on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania for 10 years. Between 2021-2025, she was an Associate Research Physician at the National Institutes of Health directing microbiome and alopecia areata protocols and served as the Associate Director of Clinical Research for the National Institutes of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. In June 2025, she became a Professor of Dermatology and Pediatrics at The George Washington University and is an attending physician at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC.