Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Professor of Dermatology
Dr. Seykora reads dermatopathology at HUP, but does not schedule appointments with patients.
My education and training
- Medical School: NewYork-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center
- Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System
- Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania Health System
Spoken languages
English
English
Insurance accepted
Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.
- Aetna Advantra Cares D-SNP
- Aetna Advantra Credit Value
- Aetna Advantra Eagle HMO
- Aetna Advantra Eagle POS
- Aetna Advantra Premier Plus PPO
- Aetna Advantra Value
- Aetna Advantra Value Plus
- Aetna APCN Plus (Multi-Tier)
- Aetna Better Health Kids (CHIP) - DH Only
- Aetna Flexible Five
- Aetna Freedom Core
- Aetna Gold
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Philly Prime
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO APCN
- Aetna Premier
- Aetna Premier Plus
- Aetna Savings Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- Aetna Student Health Plan PPO
- Aetna Upfront Advantage
- First Health HMO
- First Health POS
- First Health PPO
- Meritain - Aramark (Other)
- Meritain - Aramark (Pennsylvania Premier Medical Plan)
- Americhealth Caritas of PA VIP - LGH Only
- Amerihealth Caritas (Transplant patients only)
- Amerihealth Caritas of PA - LGH Only
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
- Clover Health Choice
- Clover Health Choice Value PPO
- Clover Health Classic HMO
- Clover Health Value
Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Dermatology
- Pathology - Anatomic Pathology, 1997
- American Academy of Dermatology, National
- American Dermatological Association, National
- American Hair Research Society, International
- American Society of Dermatopathology, National
- April 21,2026, Member, ZRG1 F10B-Q (20), National
- Dermatology Foundation, National
- July 15, 2026, ZRG1 FO7A-A 22L Study Section, virtual meeting, National
- Philadelphia College of Physicians, Local
- Philadelphia Dermatological Society, Local
- Society of Investigative Dermatology, International
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Freeburg N F, Chafamo D, Gopikrishna GK, Murphy, RM, Peng, JJ, Parthasarathy, S, Dumont, D, Estrada, EE, Logun, MT, Sun Y, Wang X, Grover P, Rodriguez JL, Zhang DL, Park K, Fu Y, Hamouda NB, Hernandez-Verdi I, Lamrani L, Hicks KA, Cooper NA, Ekwebara C, Bawden EG, Waterfall JJ, Fuentealba J, Alcantra M, Seykora JT, Prouty SM, Barrett D, Banerjee E, Cox A, Assenmacher CA, Macia C, Yin M, Carpenter EL, Ming GL, Sautes-Fridman C, Fridman WH, Tartour E, Wherry EJ, Amigorena S, Fraietta JA, Nasrallah MP, Song H, Miller TE, Bagley SJ, O’Rourke DM, Binder ZA, Alanio C and Silverbush D The critical role of the endogenous immune compartment after CAR T cell therapy in recurrent GBM , Cell: 2026
Kuprasertkul N, Moore AF, D'souza CA, Chini J, Ko EK, Huang S, Zhang S, Anderson AS, Egolf S, Pinheiro LV, Jaccard A, Magahis CT, Bao L, Aubert Y, Olingou CR, Prouty SM, Brennan-Crispi D, Hill DA, Seykora JT, Wellen KE, Capell BC Inhibiting LSD1 unlocks retinoid AP-1 programming to activate epithelial immunity and skin tumor suppression , J Clin Invest: 2026
Natale CA, Mercado S, Zhuang R, Aguirre-Portolés C, Olayide I, Arnatt CK, Seykora JT, Garyantes TK, Luke W, Ridky TW. An enantiomerically pure agonist of the G protein-coupled estrogen receptor suitable for clinical development. , Cancer Res Commun. : 2025
Zhu X, Xu M, Portal C, Lin Y, Ferdinand A, Peng T, Morrisey EE, Dlugosz AA, Castellano JM, Lee V, Seykora JT, Wong SY, Iomini C, Millar SE. Identification of Meibomian gland stem cell populations and mechanisms of aging. , Nat Commun.: 2025
Nguyen PTT, Shiue M, Kuprasertkul N, Costa-Pinheiro P, Izzo LT, Pinheiro LV, Affronti HA, Gugiu G, Ghaisas S, Liu JY, Harris JC, Bradley CW, Seykora JT, Yang X, Kambayashi T, Mesaros C, Capell BC, Wellen KE. Acetyl-CoA synthesis in the skin is a key determinant of systemic lipid homeostasis. , Cell Rep.: 2025
Hoffman CL, Bharathan NK, Shibata Y, Giang W, Gudjonsson JE, Seykora JT, Prouty SM, Stahley SN, Payne AS, Kowalczyk AP. Pemphigus Vulgaris Autoantibodies Induce an Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Response. , J Invest Dermatol.: 2025
Yu H, Nagi SS, Usoskin D, Hu Y, Kupari J, Bouchatta O, Yan H, Cranfill SL, Gautam M, Su Y, Lu Y, Wymer J, Glanz M, Albrecht P, Song H, Ming GL, Prouty S, Seykora J, Wu H, Ma M, Marshall A, Rice FL, Li M, Olausson H, Ernfors P, Luo W Leveraging deep single-soma RNA sequencing to explore the neural basis of human somatosensation , Nat Neurosci: 2024
Grice EA, Brennan-Crispi D, Rodriguez N, Margolis DJ, Seykora JT, Cotsarelis G, Taylor SC, Shuda J. Penn Academy for Skin Health (PASH): An Experiential Pipeline Program in Skin Biology and Dermatology for High-School Students. , J Invest Dermatol.: 2024
Abbott JJ, Jiang AJ, Godse R, Ahmed S, Senft SC, Wilson MA, Cohen JV, Mitchell TC, Ogunleye TA, Higgins HW 2nd, Shin TM, Miller CJ, Roth JJ, Priore SF, Castelo-Soccio L, Elenitsas R, Seykora JT, Nathanson KL, Chu EY Inherited Basaloid Neoplasms Associated With SUFU Pathogenic Variants , JAMA Dermatol. : 2024
Sati S, Huang J, Kersh AE, Jones P, Ahart O, Murphy C, Prouty SM, Hedberg ML, Jain V, Gregory SG, Leung DH, Seykora JT, Rosenbach M, Leung TH Recruitment of CXCR4+ type 1 innate lymphoid cells distinguishes sarcoidosis from other skin granulomatous diseases , J Clin Invest.: 2024