**About the Editor**

**Shawn G. Kwatra** is an Assistant Professor of Dermatology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is Director of the Johns Hopkins Itch Clinic and the Itch Fellowship Program. His areas of clinical expertise include chronic pruritus, prurigo nodularis, atopic dermatitis, and dermatology for ethnic skin. Dr. Kwatra's primary clinical and translational research interest is in the pathogenesis and treatment of chronic pruritus. He is supported by the Dermatology Foundation's Medical Dermatology Career Development Award.
