BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Pearl Grimes is the Founder and Director of the Vitiligo and Pigmentation Institute of Southern California and the Grimes Center for Medical and Aesthetic Dermatology. She is a pioneer and a leading international authority on vitiligo and pigmentary disorders. Dr. Grimes is a Clinical Professor of Dermatology at the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California – Los Angeles.Dr. Grimes holds numerous achievements in dermatology. She has been recognized by her peers with the prestigious Dermatology Foundation “Practitioner of the Year” award and the Women’s Dermatologic Society’s “Mentor of the Year” award in 2011. She received the American Society of Dermatologic Surgery President’s Award in 2006. In 2016, she was recognized with an American Skin Association Research Achievement Award. She was also awarded the prestigious 2017 Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award and the 2017 Everett C. Fox, MD Memorial Award and Lectureship Award. In addition, she was the recipient of the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Skin Association for 2017. Dr. Grimes was the 2021 recipient of the American Society of Dermatologic Surgery’s Vic Narurkar Innovation in Aesthetics award and the 2022 recipient of the prestigious Rose Hirschler Award, from the Women’s Dermatologic Society. She was recently elected President of the Global Vitiligo Foundation, and was the recipient of the 2023 Women’s Dermatologic Society’s President’s Award. She recently received the 2023 Richard E. Fitzpatrick, MD Aesthetics Award. She has been included in LA Magazine’s Super Doctors list and the Best Doctors of America list for many years. She is an active member of multiple professional organizations including: The American Academy of Dermatology, The American Society of Dermatologic Surgery, the American Dermatological Association, Society of Investigative Dermatology, the Dermatology Foundation, International Federation of Pigment Cell Societies, International Peeling Society, Skin of Color Society, the Women’s Dermatologic Society, and the Global Vitiligo Foundation.
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AbbVie – Consultant(Honoraria); Incyte Corporation – Investigator(Grants/Research Funding); L'Oreal USA Inc. – Consultant(Grants/Research Funding); Laseroptek USA – Consultant (1099 relationship)(Honoraria); Pfizer Inc. – Investigator(Grants/Research Funding); Procter & Gamble Company – Consultant(Honoraria); Scientis – Consultant (1099 relationship)(Honoraria); SkinBetter Science – Investigator(Grants/Research Funding); Versicolor Technologies – Consultant (1099 relationship)(Honoraria), Stockholder Private Company(Honoraria);