Dr. Jashin J. Wu earned a BA in biological sciences from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, through the 7-year Honors Program in Medical Education, and an MD from Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago. Dr. Wu completed a dermatology residency at the University of California, Irvine, where he served as chief resident. He is Founder, Medical Director, and Principal Investigator at California Dermatology in Corona, California, Founder and Course Director of the San Diego Dermatology Symposium and Dermatology Innovation Symposium, and Founder and CEO of the Dermatology Research and Education Foundation.

Dr. Wu is a Voluntary Professor at the Department of Dermatology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He is a Councilor for the International Psoriasis Council (IPC) and serves on the Medical Board of the National Psoriasis Foundation (NPF). He served on the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD)/NPF psoriasis guidelines committee, which published six updated psoriasis guidelines in 2019-2021. He is editor or co-editor of six books, including Therapy for Severe Psoriasis (1st edition, 2016); Clinical Cases in Psoriasis (1st edition); Mild-To-Moderate Psoriasis (3rd edition, 2014); and Moderate-To-Severe Psoriasis (4th edition, 2014). He is associate editor for the 4th edition of Comprehensive Dermatologic Drug Therapy. He has written over 500 PubMed articles, including over 300 on psoriasis, as well as 70 book chapters. His articles have been published in The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, JAMA Dermatology, the British Journal of Dermatology, JEADV, and many other dermatology journals. He is Secretary-Treasurer of the Pacific Dermatology Association. Dr. Wu has given over 200 CME lectures at medical conferences and dermatology departments/divisions in 11 countries on 4 continents. He has been awarded 3 Presidential Citations from the AAD (2016, 2021, 2024).