Welcome Dr. Anna Kersh, Penn Derm’s newest Assistant Professor of Dermatology!

Anna Kersh, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Dermatology

Penn Dermatology is proud to welcome Anna E. Kersh, MD, PhD, to our faculty as an Assistant Professor of Dermatology. In 2009, Dr. Kersh graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Biology. She completed the Medical Scientist Training Program at the Emory University School of Medicine, with an MD and a PhD in Immunology & Molecular Pathogenesis at Emory’s Laney Graduate School. At Emory, Dr. Kersh received both the Immunology and Molecular Pathogenesis Scholar of the Year Award (2015) and the Dean’s Award (2017). Dr. Kersh completed her internship at Kettering Medical Center in Ohio, followed by a residency in Dermatology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP). She has received grants from the NIH (F31), American Contact Dermatitis Society and the Dermatology Foundation. Since 2020, she has been a post-doctoral fellow in the Dr. Thomas Leung Laboratory at Penn, investigating the pathogenesis of lichen planus and lichenoid dermatoses and identifying the cytology and signaling mechanisms of lesion skin cells. As an Assistant Professor, she will continue to study lichen planus while seeing patients with lichenoid dermatoses, contact dermatitis and general dermatologic issues.