
Health Sciences Clinical Professor of Dermatology
To see if Lawrence S. Chan is accepting new patients, or for assistance finding a UC Davis doctor, please call 800-2-UCDAVIS (800-282-3284).
Phone: 916-734-6111
UC Davis Medical Group - Folsom Turn Pike Specialty Care Clinic
271 Turn Pike Dr.
Folsom, CA 95630
Clinic Phone: 916-985-9300
UC Davis Medical Group - Roseville
1620 East Roseville Parkway
Roseville, CA 95661
Phone: 916-783-7109
Dr. Chan would like to educate patients for the cause of skin abnormalities and the prevention and treatment of skin disorders.
Dr. Chan's pracices include skin cancer detection and treatment, immune-mediated skin conditions (atopic dermatitis, psoriasis, lupus, vasculitis, lichen planus, sarcoidosis, dermatomyositis, scleroderma, granuloma, pemphigus, bullous pemphigoid, epidermolysis bullosa acquisita), and skin infections (bacterial, fungal, parasitic).
Dr. Chan has a research interest in basal cell carcinoma diagnosis with a special scanner.
Dermatology
B.A., Chemical Eng. and Life Sciences, Massachusetts of Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA 1981
M.D., Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA 1985
M.H.A., Health Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago IL 2016
Internal Medicine, University Hospital, Camden NJ 1986-1987
Dermatology, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor MI 1987-1990
Dermatology/Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI 1990-1991
Ophthalmology/Biochemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA 1985-1986
Dr. Orville J. Stone Endowed Professor of Dermatology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, 2008-2022, 2022
American Dermatological Association, Member, Elected, and Inducted, 2010
Certificates of Excellence, Hispanic Center of Excellence, Summer Student Research Fellowship Program, University of Illinois College of Medicine, 2006
Award of Appreciation, The Longitudinal Primary Care Program, University of Illinois College of Medicine, 2005
"America's Top Physicians" in: Guide to America's Top Physicians. Consumers' Research Council of America, Washington, DC, 2004
Mohan GC, Zhang H, Bao L, Many B, Chan LS. Diacerein inhibits the pro-atherogenic & pro-inflammatory effects of IL-1 on human keratinocytes & endothelial cells. PLoS One. 2017 Mar 21;12(3):e0173981. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0173981. PMID:28323859.
Chen L, Lin SX, Amin S, Overbergh L, Maggiolino G, Chan LS. VCAM-1 blockade delays disease onset, reduces disease severity and inflammatory cells in an atopic dermatitis model. Immunol Cell Biol. 2010 Mar-Apr;88(3):334-42. doi:10.1038/icb.2009.107. Epub 2010 Jan 12. PMID:20065994.
Chan LS, Ahmed AR, Anhalt GJ, Bernauer W, Cooper KD, Elder MJ, Fine JD, Foster CS, Ghohestani R, Hashimoto T, Hoang-Xuan T, Kirtschig G, Korman NJ, Lightman S, Lozada-Nur F, Marinkovich MP, Mondino BJ, Prost-Squarcioni C, Rogers RS 3rd, Setterfield JF, West DP, Wojnarowska F, Woodley DT, Yancey KB, Zillikens D, Zone JJ. The first international consensus on mucous membrane pemphigoid: definition, diagnostic criteria, pathogenic factors, medical treatment, and prognostic indicators. Arch Dermatol. 2002 Mar;138(3):370-9. doi:10.1001/archderm.138.3.370. PMID:11902988.
Chan LS, Robinson N, Xu L. Expression of interleukin-4 in the epidermis of transgenic mice results in a pruritic inflammatory skin disease: an experimental animal model to study atopic dermatitis. J Invest Dermatol. 2001 Oct;117(4):977-83. doi:10.1046/j.0022-202x.2001.01484.x. PMID:11676841.
Wang J, Kwon J, Ding X, Fairley JA, Woodley DT, Chan LS. Nonsecretory IgA1 autoantibodies targeting desmosomal component desmoglein 3 in intraepidermal neutrophilic IgA dermatosis. Am J Pathol. 1997 Jun;150(6):1901-7. PMID:9176383.
Chan LS, Soong HK, Foster CS, Hammerberg C, Cooper KD. Ocular cicatricial pemphigoid occurring as a sequela of Stevens-Johnson syndrome. JAMA. 1991 Sep 18;266(11):1543-6. PMID:1880886.
Chan LS, Shi V. Atopic Dermatitis: Inside out of outside in? Elsevier Publishing, New York NY. 2022.
Chan LS and Marinkovich MP. New Technologies in Dermatological Science and Practice: Intelligence, regeneration, speed, and precision, CRC Press, Boca Raton FL. 2022.
Chan LS, Tang WC. Engineering-Medicine: Principles and applications of engineering in medicine, CRC Press, Boca Raton FL. 2019.
Chan LS. Blistering Skin Diseases, CRC Press, Boca Raton FL. 2009.