Dr. Janis M. Taube

Dr. Janis Taube is a professor of dermatology and pathology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a member of the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. Her area of clinical expertise is dermatopathology. Dr. Taube serves as the Director of the Division of Dermatopathology and as the Assistant Director of the Dermatoimmunology Laboratory at the School of Medicine. Dr. Taube received her undergraduate degree in engineering from Duke University. She earned her M.D. from Tulane University and her M.Sc. in molecular medicine from University College London. She completed her residency in pathology at Johns Hopkins where she also served as the chief resident, before undertaking a dermatopathology fellowship at Stanford University. In 2009, Dr. Taube returned to Johns Hopkins for her certification in the Melanoma Clinic. She is one of the lead scientific researchers in the Department of Dermatology at Johns Hopkins. She has written over 180 peer-reviewed publications, and her research has been cited over 70,000 times. In addition to running her own research laboratory, she serves as the co-Director of the Mark Foundation Center for Advanced Genomics and Imaging and also as the co-Director of the Tumor Microenvironment Core Laboratory for the Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy.

Dr. Taube is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Histiocytosis. Her top areas of expertise are Melanoma, Merkel Cell Carcinoma, Basal Cell Skin Cancer, Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (HNSCC), and Pancreaticoduodenectomy.

Her clinical research consists of co-authoring 198 peer reviewed articles and participating in 2 clinical trials. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, she has co-authored 3 articles in the study of Histiocytosis.