Ruth Ann Vleugels, MD, MBA, MPH, FAAD

Since September 1st, 2026, Ruth Ann Vleugels, MD, MPH, MBA has transitioned to serve as Chair and Professor of Dermatology at Penn Medicine. Until recently, she was Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School, the Heidi and Scott C. Schuster Distinguished Chair in Dermatology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Associate Chief Operating Officer at Mass General Brigham, where she led Medical and Oncologic Infusion Operations and Strategy and co-led Virtual Care Operations for MGB’s 11 member hospitals. She was Founding Director of the Autoimmune Skin Disease Program, Myositis Center, Connective Tissue Disease Clinics, and Atopic Dermatitis Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Co-Director of the Rheumatology-Dermatology Program at Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Vleugels developed the MGB Dermatology-Rheumatology Fellowship, the first fellowship opportunity of its kind nationally, which has now transitioned to Penn. She has been selected for Harvard Medical School’s most p