Eric Simpson, M.D., M.C.R. (he/him)

  • Professor of Dermatology, School of Medicine
  • Frances J. Storrs, M.D. Medical Dermatology Professor, Dermatology, School of Medicine

Education and training

  • Degrees

    • M.D., 1998, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
    • M.C.R., 2009, Oregon Health & Science University
  • Residency

    • Dermatology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, 2002
  • Certifications

    • American Board of Dermatology

Memberships and associations:

  • American Academy of Dermatology
  • Alpha Omega Alpha
  • American Academy of Dermatology
  • American Contact Dermatitis Society
  • American Dermatological Association
  • Dermatology Foundation Leaders Society
  • International Society of Atopic Dermatitis
  • National Eczema Association
  • National Psoriasis Foundation
  • Oregon Dermatology Society
  • Oregon Medical Association
  • Society for Investigative Dermatology
  • Pediatric Dermatology Research Alliance

Honors and awards

  • Portland Monthly Magazine “Our Top Doctors,” 2006, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2019
  • Presidential Citation, American Academy of Dermatology; 2015
  • Young Investigator’s Award, American Dermatological Association; 2015
  • National Eczema Association Hero; 2012
  • Golden Rose Award, OHSU; 2011
  • Teacher of the Year, OHSU Department of Dermatology; 2008
  • Howard Maibach Travel Award, American Contact Dermatitis Society; 2002
  • Nethercott Clinical Research Award, American Contact Dermatitis Society; 2001
  • Frances J. Storrs, M.D. Medical Dermatology Professorship; 2019

Publications

Elsevier pure profile

Publications

  • Achieving Depth of Response in Skin Clearance and Itch Relief With Lebrikizumab is Associated With Minimal Impact of Atopic Dermatitis on Quality of Life

    SKIN: Journal of Cutaneous Medicine
    1. Raj Chovatiya
    2. Eric Simpson
    3. Tilo Biedermann
    4. Leon Kircik
    5. Vivian Y. Shi
    6. Ignasi Figueras-Nart
    7. Marta Casillas
    8. Gaia Gallo
    9. Yuxin Ding
    10. Hong Zhang
    11. Evangeline Pierce
    12. Helena Agell
    13. Christian Vestergaard
  • CERS1 is a biomarker of Staphylococcus aureus abundance and atopic dermatitis severity

    Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
    1. H. Mark Kenney
    2. Takeshi Yoshida
    3. Evgeny Berdyshev
    4. Agustin Calatroni
    5. Steven R. Gill
    6. Eric L. Simpson
    7. Stephanie Lussier
    8. Mark Boguniewicz
    9. Tissa Hata
    10. Zelma C. Chiesa Fuxench
    11. Anna De Benedetto
    12. Peck Y. Ong
    13. Justin Ko
    14. Wendy Davidson
    15. Gloria David
    16. Patrick M. Schlievert
    17. Donald Y.M. Leung
    18. Lisa A. Beck
  • Lebrikizumab Confirms a Consistent Safety Profile in Adults and Adolescents With Moderate-to-Severe Atopic Dermatitis

    SKIN: Journal of Cutaneous Medicine
    1. Linda Stein Gold
    2. Eric Simpson
    3. Diamant Thaçi
    4. Alan Irvine
    5. Marjolein de Bruin-Weller
    6. Gaia Gallo
    7. Maria Lucia Buziqui Piruzeli
    8. Hany Elmaraghy
    9. Jinglin Zhong
    10. Sonia Montmayeur
    11. Ruth Coll
    12. Mark G. Lebwohl
  • Long-Term Safety and Efficacy with Roflumilast Cream 0.15% in Patients Aged ≥6 Years with Atopic Dermatitis

    Dermatitis
    1. Eric L. Simpson
    2. Lawrence F. Eichenfield
    3. Kim A. Papp
    4. Seth B. Forman
    5. Adelaide A. Hebert
    6. Mercedes E. Gonzalez
    7. Melinda J. Gooderham
    8. H. Chih Ho Hong
    9. Vimal H. Prajapati
    10. Emma Guttman-Yassky
    11. Jonathan I. Silverberg
    12. Melissa S. Seal
    13. David Krupa
    14. Erin Almaraz
    15. Diane Hanna
    16. Patrick Burnett
    17. Scott Snyder
    18. David H. Chu
    19. Robert C. Higham
    20. David R. Berk
  • Tapinarof Improved Outcomes and Sleep for Patients and Families in Two Phase 3 Atopic Dermatitis Trials in Adults and Children

    Dermatology and Therapy
    1. Eric L. Simpson
    2. Adelaide A. Hebert
    3. John Browning
    4. Rocco T. Serrao
    5. Howard Sofen
    6. Philip M. Brown
    7. Stephen C. Piscitelli
    8. David S. Rubenstein
    9. Anna M. Tallman
  • The effect of dupilumab on caregiver- and patient-reported outcomes in young children with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis

    Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
    1. Amy S. Paller
    2. Jonathan I. Silverberg
    3. Eric L. Simpson
    4. Michael J. Cork
    5. Peter D. Arkwright
    6. Zhen Chen
    7. Ashish Bansal
    8. Randy Prescilla
    9. Zhixiao Wang
    10. Ainara R. Marco
  • The efficacy of longer-term lebrikizumab treatment in patients with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis who did not meet protocol-defined response criteria at week 16 in 2 randomized controlled clinical trials

    Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
    1. Emma Guttman-Yassky
    2. David Rosmarin
    3. Marjolein de Bruin-Weller
    4. Stephan Weidinger
    5. Thomas Bieber
    6. H. Chih ho Hong
    7. Hany Elmaraghy
    8. Amber Reck Atwater
    9. Evangeline Pierce
    10. Chenjia Xu
    11. Helena Agell
    12. Esther Garcia Gil
    13. Eric Simpson
  • Achievement of No-to-minimal Itch and Sleep Improvement with Tapinarof Cream 1% Once Daily in Two Pivotal Phase 3 Trials in Adults and Children Down to 2 Years of Age with Atopic Dermatitis

    SKIN: Journal of Cutaneous Medicine
    1. Eric Simpson
    2. Dareen D. Siri
    3. Raj Chovatiya
    4. Mona Shahriari
    5. Autumn F. Burnette
    6. Brittany G. Craiglow
    7. Philip M. Brown
    8. Anna M. Tallman
  • A practical guide to using oral Janus kinase inhibitors for atopic dermatitis from the International Eczema Council

    The British journal of dermatology
    1. Carter Haag
    2. Andrew Alexis
    3. Valeria Aoki
    4. Robert Bissonnette
    5. Andrew Blauvelt
    6. Raj Chovatiya
    7. Michael J. Cork
    8. Simon G. Danby
    9. Lawrence F. Eichenfield
    10. Kilian Eyerich
    11. Melinda Gooderham
    12. Emma Guttman-Yassky
    13. Dirk Jan Hijnen
    14. Alan D. Irvine
    15. Norito Katoh
    16. Dedee F. Murrell
    17. Yael A. Leshem
    18. Adriane A. Levin
    19. Ida Vittrup
    20. Jill I. Olydam
    21. Raquel L. Orfali
    22. Amy S. Paller
    23. Yael Renert-Yuval
    24. David Rosmarin
    25. Jonathan I. Silverberg
    26. Jacob P. Thyssen
    27. Sonja Ständer
    28. Nicholas Stefanovic
    29. Gail Todd
    30. Jia De Yu
    31. Eric L. Simpson
  • A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Multicenter, 16-Week Trial to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of FB-401 in Children, Adolescents, and Adult Subjects (Ages 2 Years and Older) with Mild-to-Moderate Atopic Dermatitis

    Dermatology
    1. Michael E. Jacobson
    2. Ian A. Myles
    3. Amy S. Paller
    4. Lawrence F. Eichenfield
    5. Eric L. Simpson
  • Burden of atopic dermatitis in paediatric patients

    British Journal of Dermatology
    1. Stephan Weidinger
    2. Eric L. Simpson
    3. Jonathan I. Silverberg
    4. Sebastien Barbarot
    5. Laurent Eckert
    6. Paola Mina-Osorio
    7. Ana B. Rossi
    8. Lysel Brignoli
    9. Tarek Mnif
    10. Isabelle Guillemin
    11. Miriam C. Fenton
    12. Dimittri Delevry
    13. Chien Chia Chuang
    14. Marine Pellan
    15. Abhijit Gadkari
  • Characterization of disease burden, treatment and comorbidities in a large, real-world cohort of patients with atopic dermatitis

    JAAD International
    1. Jonathan I. Silverberg
    2. Angel Cronin
    3. Eric A. Jones
    4. Swapna S. Dave
    5. Robert R. McLean
    6. Jeffrey Greenberg
    7. Bruce Strober
    8. Thomas Bieber
    9. Melinda Gooderham
    10. Amy S. Paller
    11. Eric L. Simpson
  • Disease burden and patient characteristics associated with systemic therapy utilization among adults with atopic dermatitis

    Journal of Dermatological Treatment
    1. Jonathan I. Silverberg
    2. Linda Stein Gold
    3. Seemal Desai
    4. Alexandra Golant
    5. Douglas DiRuggiero
    6. D. Christian Fenske
    7. Alvin Li
    8. Zach Dawson
    9. Yolanda Muñoz Maldonado
    10. Kaylee Ho
    11. Kayla Callahan
    12. Eric L Simpson
  • Dupilumab Safety and Efficacy up to 1 Year in Children Aged 6 Months to 5 Years with Atopic Dermatitis

    American Journal of Clinical Dermatology
    1. Amy S. Paller
    2. Elaine C. Siegfried
    3. Eric L. Simpson
    4. Michael J. Cork
    5. Robert Sidbury
    6. Iris H. Chen
    7. Faisal A. Khokhar
    8. Jing Xiao
    9. Ariane Dubost-Brama
    10. Ashish Bansal
  • Dupilumab treatment improves signs, symptoms, quality of life, and work productivity in patients with atopic hand and foot dermatitis

    Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
    1. Eric L. Simpson
    2. Jonathan I. Silverberg
    3. Margitta Worm
    4. Golara Honari
    5. Koji Masuda
    6. Ewa Syguła
    7. Marie L.A. Schuttelaar
    8. Eric Mortensen
    9. Elizabeth Laws
    10. Bolanle Akinlade
    11. Naimish Patel
    12. Jennifer Maloney
    13. Heather Paleczny
    14. Dimittri Delevry
    15. Jing Xiao
    16. Ariane Dubost-Brama
    17. Ashish Bansal
  • Durable improvements in atopic dermatitis in the head and neck and across other anatomic regions with rocatinlimab

    Archives of Dermatological Research
    1. Emma Guttman-Yassky
    2. Ehsanollah Esfandiari
    3. Hirotaka Mano
    4. Takahiro Arai
    5. Alan D. Irvine
    6. Michael J. Cork
    7. Kenji Kabashima
    8. Camilla Chong
    9. Eric Simpson
  • Efficacy and safety of rademikibart (CBP-201), a next-generation mAb targeting IL-4Rα, in adults with moderate to severe atopic dermatitis

    Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
    1. Jonathan I. Silverberg
    2. Bruce Strober
    3. Brian Feinstein
    4. Jinhua Xu
    5. Emma Guttman-Yassky
    6. Eric L. Simpson
    7. Pauline Li
    8. Malinda Longphre
    9. Jing Song
    10. Jiawang Guo
    11. Jang Yun
    12. Belinda Williams
    13. Wubin Pan
    14. Selwyn Ho
    15. Raúl Collazo
    16. Zheng Wei
  • Efficacy, Safety, and Long-Term Disease Control of Ruxolitinib Cream Among Adolescents with Atopic Dermatitis

    American Journal of Clinical Dermatology
    1. Lawrence F. Eichenfield
    2. Eric L. Simpson
    3. Kim Papp
    4. Jacek C. Szepietowski
    5. Andrew Blauvelt
    6. Leon Kircik
    7. Jonathan I. Silverberg
    8. Elaine C. Siegfried
    9. Michael E. Kuligowski
    10. May E. Venturanza
    11. Howard Kallender
    12. Haobo Ren
    13. Amy S. Paller
  • Emollient application from birth to prevent eczema in high-risk children

    Health Technology Assessment
    1. Lucy E. Bradshaw
    2. Laura A. Wyatt
    3. Sara J. Brown
    4. Rachel H. Haines
    5. Alan A. Montgomery
    6. Michael R. Perkin
    7. Tracey H. Sach
    8. Sandra Lawton
    9. Carsten Flohr
    10. Matthew J. Ridd
    11. Joanne R. Chalmers
    12. Joanne Brooks
    13. Richard Swinden
    14. Eleanor J. Mitchell
    15. Stella Tarr
    16. Nicola Jay
    17. Kim S. Thomas
    18. Hilary Allen
    19. Michael J. Cork
    20. Maeve M. Kelleher
    21. Eric L. Simpson
    22. Stella T. Lartey
    23. Susan Davies-Jones
    24. Robert J. Boyle
    25. Hywel C. Williams
  • Evaluating the clinical utility of the Atopic Dermatitis Control Tool

    British Journal of Dermatology
    1. Eric L. Simpson
    2. Laurent Eckert
    3. Abhijit Gadkari
    4. T. Michelle Brown
    5. Peter A. Lio
    6. Benjamin Lockshin
    7. Lauren Nelson
    8. Sheri E. Fehnel
    9. Puneet Mahajan
    10. Jingdong Chao
    11. Michaela Nygårdas
    12. Isabelle Guillemin
  • How to use the Harmonising Outcome Measures for Eczema Core Outcome Set for atopic dermatitis trials

    British Journal of Dermatology
    1. Kim S. Thomas
    2. Laura Howells
    3. Yael A. Leshem
    4. Eric L. Simpson
    5. Christian Apfelbacher
    6. Phyllis I. Spuls
    7. Louise A.A. Gerbens
    8. Michael E. Jacobson
    9. Norito Katoh
    10. Hywel C. Williams
    11. Beth L. Stuart
  • Impact of atopic dermatitis lesion locations and extent on patient burden

    JEADV Clinical Practice
    1. Eric Simpson
    2. Peter Lio
    3. Evangeline Pierce
    4. Angel Cronin
    5. Robert R. McLean
    6. Thomas Eckmann
    7. Amber Reck Atwater
    8. Zach Dawson
    9. Jonathan I. Silverberg
  • Improvement Across Dimensions of Disease with Lebrikizumab Use in Atopic Dermatitis

    Advances in Therapy
    1. Eric Simpson
    2. Pablo Fernández-Peñas
    3. Marjolein de Bruin-Weller
    4. Peter A. Lio
    5. Chia Yu Chu
    6. Khaled Ezzedine
    7. Helena Agell
    8. Marta Casillas
    9. Yuxin Ding
    10. Fan Emily Yang
    11. Evangeline Pierce
    12. Thomas Bieber