Donald Glass, M.D., Ph.D.

Originally from the Bahamas, Dr. Glass enrolled in the Medical Scientist Training Program at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) in 1998. He received his PhD from BCM in 2005 from the Department of Human Genetics, where he studied the role of Canonical Wnt Signaling in Bone Regulation. He received his MD from BCM in 2006, and did his transitional year internship at Cambridge Hospital in Massachusetts in 2008. He was the second African-American resident to train in the Department of Dermatology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, completing his residency in 2011. He is currently an Instructor in the Department of Dermatology at UT Southwestern.

Dr. Glass spends the majority of his time doing research. His main interest is in studying keloids (exuberant scarring of the skin), how they occur and in finding the genes that predispose people to develop keloids. Being African-American, Dr. Glass has an interest in studying diseases that affect skin of color. Keloids occur disproportionately more often in skin of color, and the ability to develop keloids can be inherited within families. Dr. Glass is compiling a registry of individuals as well as families affected by keloids in order to collect samples and information to study keloids further. His other research interest is identifying genes that cause rare skin disorders. Dr. Glass also sees patients in his clinic - besides keloids, his clinical interests include genetic skin diseases and granuloma annulare.

Medical School	Baylor College of Medicine (2006)
Internship	Cambridge Hospital (2008)
Residency	University of Texas Southwestern (2011)

• Dermatology
• General Dermatology

• Primary Interests
• Acne
• Atopic Dermatitis
• Eczema
• Genetic Skin Disorders
• Hidradenitis
• Keloids
• Nevi (Moles)
• Patients With Multiple Moles
• Pigmented Lesions
• Previous Skin Cancers
• Psoriasis
• Skin Check
• Skin Disorders
• Transplant Patients

• Dermal Biology
• Fibroblasts
• Genetics
• Keloids

Featured Publications

Poor prognosis in non-Caucasian patients with early-onset mycosis fungoides.

Sun G, Berthelot C, Li Y, Glass DA, George D, Pandya A, Kurzrock R, Duvic M J. Am. Acad. Dermatol. 2009 Feb 60 2 231-5

Canonical Wnt signaling in differentiated osteoblasts controls osteoclast differentiation.

Glass DA, Bialek P, Ahn JD, Starbuck M, Patel MS, Clevers H, Taketo MM, Long F, McMahon AP, Lang RA, Karsenty G Dev. Cell 2005 May 8 5 751-64

A new insight into the formation of osteolytic lesions in multiple myeloma.

Glass DA, Patel MS, Karsenty G N. Engl. J. Med. 2003 Dec 349 26 2479-80

Whole exome sequencing.

Glass DA, Nuara AA Dermatitis 2013 Jan 24 1 33-4

Painful toe ulcers.

Sanchez AT, Weaver SP, Glass DA J Fam Pract 2013 Jan 62 1 37-8

Two pediatric cases of Blau syndrome.

Glass DA, Maender J, Metry D Dermatol. Online J. 2009 15 12 5

In vivo analysis of Wnt signaling in bone.

Glass DA, Karsenty G Endocrinology 2007 Jun 148 6 2630-4

Canonical Wnt signaling in osteoblasts is required for osteoclast differentiation.

Glass DA, Karsenty G Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 2006 Apr 1068 117-30

Molecular bases of the regulation of bone remodeling by the canonical Wnt signaling pathway.

Glass DA, Karsenty G Curr. Top. Dev. Biol. 2006 73 43-84

WNT7b mediates macrophage-induced programmed cell death in patterning of the vasculature.

Lobov IB, Rao S, Carroll TJ, Vallance JE, Ito M, Ondr JK, Kurup S, Glass DA, Patel MS, Shu W, Morrisey EE, McMahon AP, Karsenty G, Lang RA Nature 2005 Sep 437 7057 417-21

• Dermatology Foundation
  Dermatologist Investigator Research Fellowship Award (2011)
• Skin of Color Society
  AMBI Research Grant (2011)
• UT-Southwestern Medical Center
  Physcian Scientist Training Program (2010)
• BCM Outstanding Student Award
  Graduate School (2006)
• Graduate Student Rep Speaker
  BCM Commencement (2006)
• Speaker, Gordon Research Conference
  Bones and Teeth (2005)

• American Academy of Dermatology
• Dallas County Medical Society
• Dermatology Foundation
• National Medical Association
• Skin of Color Society
• Society for Investigative Dermatology
• Texas Medical Association