Hensin Tsao, MD, PhD

USA
Clinical Director, MGH Melanoma& Pigmented Lesion Center
Dr. Tsao graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University with a degree in Biochemistry and English. In 1993, he graduated Alpha Omega Alpha from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons with an MD degree and Columbia University Graduate School of Arts of Sciences with a PhD degree in Biophysics/Biochemistry. Dr. Tsao completed one year of clinical training in internal medicine and three years of dermatology residency, including a one-year Melanoma Fellowship, in the Harvard-affiliated hospitals. He concluded his training with a postdoctoral fellowship in the Division of Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital.
 
In 2001, Dr. Tsao joined the Wellman Center for Photomedicine and Department of Dermatology at MGH, where he established the Skin Cancer Genetics Laboratory and the MGH Melanoma Genetics Program in order to better understand the molecular basis of melanoma predisposition, progression and therapeutic response. He has been continuously funded for his research by various organizations including the National Institutes of Health, the American Skin Association, the Dermatology Foundation, the American Cancer Society, the Department of Defense and the Melanoma Research Alliance. In addition to his scientific program, in 2005, he became the Director of the MGH Melanoma and Pigmented Lesion Center, which is the oldest multidisciplinary melanoma unit in the country.  
 
Dr. Tsao is the author nearly 230 peer-reviewed research articles, reviews, abstracts, textbook chapters and online media texts. He has also delivered over 300 presentations on melanoma, genetics and skin disease throughout the world including many Keynote, Plenary and named lectureships. Dr. Tsao has received numerous awards including the Alfred Steiner Dean’s Award and Titus Munson Coan Prize from Columbia University, the Deborah Shalita Marmour Clinical Career Development Award from the Dermatology Foundation, the Young Investigator Award, the Marion Sulzberger Award and a Presidential Citation Award from the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD), the D.M. Carter Award and the Howard Milstein Innovation Award from the American Skin Association, the William Montagna Award and Lectureship from the Society for Investigative Dermatology and the MGH Partners-in-Excellence Award for Leadership and Innovation and the MGH Cancer Center’s “100” Award. Internationally, he has received the coveted Kung Sung Oh Memorial Lecture and Award from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea.  For his clinical and scientific contributions, Dr. Tsao has been selected as one of Boston’s Top Doctors in (2010-2019) and inducted into the American Dermatological Association and the American Society for Clinical Investigation in 2008 and 2009, respectively.