Karol Timmons, RN, MS, CPNP is a pediatric nurse practitioner at Boston Children’s Hospital in Massachusetts, where she specializes in treating children with severe atopic dermatitis and food allergies. She has spent most of her pediatric nursing career at Boston Children’s Hospital and has worked in the Boston Children’s Hospital Allergy/Immunology Program for 24 years. She is the co-founder, with her collaborating physician, of the Boston Children’s Hospital Atopic Dermatitis Center, a multidisciplinary program that includes a pediatric psychologist and pediatric nutritionist. Ms Timmons enjoys working with families to help them manage their disease successfully with education, support, and follow-up. She completed her Master’s degree at Northeastern University in Boston.

Corinna Rea, MD, MPH, is an instructor in pediatrics at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, and a pediatrician in the Division of General Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, where she is also the director of the General Academic Pediatrics Fellowship and the head of faculty development for the Rapid Assessment of Skin Health (RASH) clinic. Dr Rea has a particular interest in dermatology, and created the RASH clinic within primary care at Boston Children’s Hospital to provide services to children with basic dermatologic complaints. She conducts research in the areas of e-consults and referral coordination, quality improvement, and atopic dermatitis. Dr Rea received her medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.

Sarina B. Elmariah, MD, PhD, is an instructor in dermatology at Harvard Medical School and a member of the clinical and research faculty at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where she specializes in treating patients with chronic itching and severe inflammatory disorders including refractory atopic dermatitis, psoriasis, allergic skin reactions, and neuropathic and autoimmune skin diseases. She performs basic science and clinical research to understand why people itch and how cutaneous nerves interact with the immune system to influence the development of skin disease. Dr Elmariah has published numerous journal articles, reviews and abstracts, and has authored many online reviews and book chapters. She received her MD and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.