Howard Maibach

Howard I Maibach is an American dermatologist, professor of Dermatology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

Maibach was born on 18 July 1929, in New York, NY. He graduated from Tulane University School of Medicinein 1955, andcompleted his internship from William Beaumont Army Hospital, El Paso, TX in 1956. He later completed his Fellowship from Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in 1961. He also practiced neuropsychiatry for few months in 1956.

He is a specialist in contact and occupational dermatitis,including the toxicologicaland pharmacological aspects. . He is also known for his work in neonatal skin, dose response of topical drugs and per-cutaneous penetration.

He has written over 3,000 research articles, which according to an estimate could be a world record.

Maibach was awarded an honorary PhD by Universite de Paris-Sud in 1985 and Université Claude Bernard, Lyon in 2008. In 2013, he was awarded the "Master Dermatologist Award" by the American Academy of Dermatology.