Sharon Jacob is Professor at Loma Linda University and Clinical Professor of Medicine-Pediatrics at the University of California, Riverside.  She founded the Pediatric Contact Dermatitis (National) Registry and the Dermatitis Academy public education site dedicated to all things contact dermatitis. She earned her Bachelors of Arts Degree with honors in molecular biology from Hampshire College (motto Non-Satis Scire ‘to know is not enough”), her medical degree from Temple University, completed a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scholarship year at the NIH studying HIV-immunodermatology, completed her dermatology residency and a two year Clinical Scientist Training Program at the University of Miami, and ACDS mentorships with William James/Bruce Brod at UPenn and David Cohen at NYU.  She is a world-recognized leader in the field of pediatric contact dermatitis and has published widely in the field of Contact (with over 400 publications). Her contributions have resulted in her being honored with Presidential Citation Awards from both the American Academy of Dermatology and the American Contact Dermatitis Society (ACDS).