Vera H. Price, M.D.

Dr. Vera H. Price is Professor of Clinical Dermatology in the Department of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She is Director of both the UCSF Hair Research Center and the Hair and Nail Clinic. Dr. Price received her medical degree from the University of Toronto and interned at the Toronto General Hospital. She then trained in Internal Medicine at Shaughnessy Hospital in Vancouver and in Dermatology at the New York University Postgraduate Medical School. After moving with her family to San Francisco, she spent three years doing basic research on the structure and biochemistry of hair in the Wool and Mohair Laboratory at the Western Regional Research Laboratory of the United States Department of Agriculture in Berkeley, California.

Dr. Price's research interests include immunologic and genetic factors in alopecia areata, hormonal regulation of the hair follicle, structural hair shaft anomalies, quantitative methods of estimating hair growth, and special aspects of Afro American hair. She is credited with describing several new hair disorders. She has been a visiting professor and lecturer at numerous universities and hospitals in the United States and abroad and has served as a Director of the American Academy of Dermatology.

Dr. Price is Co Founder of the National Alopecia Areata Foundation (NAAF), has voluntarily served as Chairman of the Board of Directors since NAAF's inception in 1981, and continues to serve on the Scientific Advisory Council as Immediate Past Chair. During the Foundation's eighteen years of existence, Dr. Price has devoted thousands of hours to make the Foundation successful in both its research efforts and its support of persons with alopecia areata. Dr. Price served on the organizing committee of the three International Research Workshops on Alopecia Areata in 1990, 1994, and 1998.