Maria Hordinsky, M.D.

Professor & Interim Head, Department of Dermatology
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN

Dr. Maria Hordinsky is Professor and Interim Head of the Department of Dermatology at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. She is also the Director of the Clinical Research Division in the Department of Dermatology and is the Principal Investigator of several clinical research studies. Her clinical interests focus on hair diseases such as alopecia areata. Her laboratory’s interests focus on questions related to cutaneous innervation and the effect of nerves and neuropeptides on the hair follicle.

Dr. Hordinsky received her undergraduate degree from Fordham University in New York City. She received her M.D. degree from the University of North Dakota and completed her first postgraduate year at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. Following the completion of a dermatology residency at the University of Minnesota, she was the recipient of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Training Grant in Academic Dermatology, a Dermatology Foundation fellowship, and a NIH National Research Service Award.

Dr. Hordinsky is a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the National Alopecia Areata Foundation, editor of the on-line journal ehairnews, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Women’s Dermatology Society. She has published over 40 manuscripts, 20 book chapters, 70 abstracts, and is a co-editor for the new Hair and Nails book (Eds. Hordinsky, Sawaya, Scher) published in 2000 by Churchill-Livingstone & Saunders Publishers, Philadelphia, PA.