Jules Lipoff, MD, is a board-certified dermatologist in Philadelphia and clinical associate professor (adjunct) in the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Department of Dermatology. He previously served on faculty at the University of Pennsylvania.
His research focuses on access to care, teledermatology, social media, and health equity. He was a Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. He also teaches dermatology residents, medical students, primary care residents, and family medicine residents.
Dr. Lipoff speaks nationally and internationally about telemedicine, and publishes extensively in the lay press and academic journals on a variety of topics. At Penn, his work was supported by the Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation. At the American Academy of Dermatology, he served as chair of the teledermatology task force, was a member of the ad hoc COVID-19 task force, and is the current deputy editor of the Dialogues in Dermatology podcast series.
Dr. Lipoff also cares deeply about volunteerism and advocating for the underserved. From 2014-2020, he served as co-program director for the Penn-Guatemala dermatology resident exchange and outreach program. Since 2014, he founded a dermatology clinic for patients living with HIV/AIDS and other types of immunosuppression, which expanded to improve access for all transgender and non-binary patients (and now called PRIDE Clinic - PRoviding Integrated Dermatology for Everyone). He has volunteered at local free clinics (Philadelphia STD Clinic, Puentes de Salud), performs physical exams in support of asylum seekers (in conjunction with Physicians for Human Rights and the Philadelphia Human Rights Clinic), and serves as a Senior Specialist Consultant for Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders).
In college, Dr. Lipoff was chairman of the nation’s oldest college humor magazine, the Yale Record, interned for both The Onion and Mad Magazine, and studied with the Upright Citizens Brigade. His current creative work includes writing screenplays, making short films, and serving as a medical consultant for television shows.
Dr. Lipoff is a proud native of Kansas City, and ardent fan of Kansas Jayhawks basketball and Kansas City Chiefs football. He went to college at Yale receiving a BS in molecular biophysics and biochemistry. He attended medical school, internship in internal medicine, and residency in dermatology in the Bronx, New York at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife and two daughters.