- Assistant Professor, Department of Dermatology, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University
Dr. Anna Eisenstein is an Assistant Professor of Dermatology at Yale School of Medicine and a board-certified dermatologist specializing in chronic inflammatory skin diseases. She completed her undergraduate studies at Middlebury College, received her MD and PhD from Boston University School of Medicine, and completed her dermatology residency and postdoctoral training at Yale.
During her postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Dr. Andrew Wang, Dr. Eisenstein established a novel mechanism of action of commonly used nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and demonstrated how these and other industrial xenobiotics contribute to the development of allergic disease. She also identified a new paradigm in allergy biology — termed remote priming — whereby antigen and adjuvant signals are spatially separated, published in Science Immunology in 2025.
In clinical practice, Dr. Eisenstein specializes in hidradenitis suppurativa, an understudied and debilitating skin condition with limited treatment options, and serves as Director of the Hidradenitis Suppurativa Clinic at Yale. Her broader research investigates how environmental factors influence inflammatory skin diseases, including atopic dermatitis and hidradenitis suppurativa.
Her research has been supported by Career Development Awards from the Dermatology Foundation and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
