Dr. Murad Alam is Vice-Chair of Dermatology; Professor of Dermatology, Otolaryngology, and Surgery; Professor of Medical Social Science, and Chief of the Section of Cutaneous and Aesthetic Surgery, at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of

Medicine. Dr. Alam is a member of the CS-COUSIN Methods Group, and on the steering committee of the IMPROVED Group, which is an international group of health professionals collaborating to develop core outcome sets and measures in dermatologic surgery.