January 8, 2002
Travers to Lead IU Department of Dermatology
INDIANAPOLIS -- Jeffrey B. Travers, M.D., Ph.D., has been named chair
of the Indiana University Department of Dermatology.
Named the Kampen-Norins Investigator in Dermatology at IU, Dr. Travers
holds appointments in the departments of dermatology, pediatrics, pharmacology
and toxicology, and served as the interim chair of the Department of Dermatology
during the search for a new chairman. He has been on the IUSM faculty
since 1995.
A native of Ohio, he attended the Ohio State University receiving a bachelor’s
degree in chemistry, a doctoral degree in pharmacology and his medical
degree. Dr. Travers completed his internship in transitional medicine
at Riverside Methodist Hospital, Columbus, Ohio; his residency in dermatology
at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, and a
fellowship at National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine,
also in Denver.
His primary research interest is in the mechanisms of skin inflammation,
and he currently is the principal investigator on two National Institutes
of Health grants, as well as co-investigator on three other NIH grants.
Dr. Travers is married to Joan Jernigan Travers, and they have three children
Justine, 15, Jared, 13, and Jeffrey, 11.
He succeeds Evan Farmer, M.D., who resigned in May 2001 to accept the
position as dean and provost at Eastern Virginia Medical School.
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