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1st appeared 11 June 1999

Dermatologist Honored for Raising Public Awareness of Alopecia Areata

Vera Price, UCSF professor of clinical dermatology, recently won the Individual Accomplishment Gold Triangle Award from the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) for her commitment to raising awareness of alopecia areata, a common autoimmune disease that causes partial or total hair loss.

The National Alopecia Areata Foundation, which Price co-founded, also won a Gold Triangle Award for nonprofit communications. The awards were presented in April at the AAD's third annual awards ceremony in New York.

Price started the National Alopecia Areata Foundation in 1981 along with a patient of hers that had lost all her hair as an adolescent. The foundation funds more than $1.7 million in grants for research of the disease and helps organize support groups, including a San Francisco chapter.

Alopecia areata occurs worldwide, in all races, and affects women and men equally. It can occur at any age, but occurs more frequently in young people and children. It is an autoimmune disease in which the body mistakes its hair cells for an enemy and causes people to lose their hair in patches. It affects roughly two percent of the US population, or four million people. About one to two percent lose every hair on their body, including eyebrows, eyelashes, and nose hairs.

Links:

Vera Price profile

American Academy of Dermatology

National Alopecia Areata Foundation

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