2025 staff Honoree

Patrick Brunner MD is an Associate Professor of Dermatology and Director of the Cutaneous Lymphoma Clinic at the Kimberly and Eric J. Waldman Department of Dermatology. He obtained his MD degree from the Medical University of Vienna, Austria and completed his residency in Dermatology at the Department of Dermatology at the Medical University of Vienna (General Hospital Vienna), under the mentorship of Dr. Georg Stingl. Afterwards, Dr. Brunner joined the Laboratory for Investigative Dermatology at The Rockefeller University in New York, obtaining a Master’s Degree in Clinical and Translational Sciences, and performed research on atopic dermatitis under the mentorship of Drs. Emma Guttman and James G. Krueger. In 2018, he started to build his own research group at the Medical University of Vienna, focusing on cutaneous immunobiology of chronic inflammatory skin diseases and primary cutaneous lymphomas, to better understand how individual immune cells orchestrate skin inflammation in benign and malignant conditions. In 2021, he moved back to New York to join the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai as a clinician scientist with a strong interest in skin immunology. He sees patients suffering from primary cutaneous immune cell malignancies, and also has a general interest in chronic inflammatory skin diseases such as atopic dermatitis and vitiligo. He is heading a translational research group aiming at a better understanding of the immunobiology in cutaneous lymphomas, atopic dermatitis and vitiligo, and to develop better treatment modalities for this patient population. Music for Patrick is not just such a powerful phenomenon. He feels it directly touches our soul, and is certain that music has been critical force in helping patients in their recovery period. He is convinced that singing is a powerful way to better understand our own bodies. He took singing lessons for a while, and sang in a choir in school, and the physical experience was powerful. Dr Brunner’s hobbies are related to music. During school, he played the piano, but always wanted to play in an orchestra, so he more recently started playing oboe which he plays in amateur orchestras and gives him enormous joy. Music, has always been a great part of his life, and he met most of his friends back in Vienna in the standing room of the Vienna State Opera, where he spent a lot of time during Medical School. Dr.Brunner has recently adopted a Boston Terrier named "Jenny".