Dr. Jan Dutz

Jan Dutz, MD, FRCPC
Rheumatologist and Dermatologist, The Skin Care Center, Vancouver, BC

Dr. Dutz is a Professor at UBC and a scientist with the BC Children’s Hospital
Research Institute and the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute. He
received MD degree from Queen’s University. He continued with postgraduate
training in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology (University of Toronto) and
Dermatology (UBC).

Dr. Dutz has been the recipient of numerous honours and grants for research
and investigation, and has co-authored over 150 scientific journal publications
and journal abstracts, as well as several chapters in books.

Dr. Dutz’s practice includes a Connective Tissue Disease clinic, and he is one of
a few physicians in North America to be board-certified and maintain an active
clinical interest in both Rheumatology and Dermatology. He has been awarded
for his teaching and for the connections he brings to linking basic science
discoveries and clinical dermatology. His current interests are skin immunization,
melanoma, diabetes, and cutaneous connective tissue diseases.

The focus of his laboratory is to study the skin immune system and its
participation in autoimmune disease.