Brian Skaug, MD, PhD

Biography

Dr. Skaug completed his medical and graduate training in the Medical Scientist Training Program at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, earning an MD/PhD dual degree in 2013.  He completed Internal Medicine residency at UT Southwestern, followed by Rheumatology fellowship at UTHealth Houston, and then joined the Rheumatology faculty at UTHealth Houston in 2018.  He provides Rheumatology care and consultation at the UT Professional Building and Memorial Hermann Hospital in the Texas Medical Center.  He is a member of the American College of Rheumatology and serves on the Medical and Scientific Advisory Board of the National Scleroderma Foundation.  He is also an Associate Member of the MD Anderson-UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.

Dr. Skaug’s research focuses on identifying the mechanisms underlying the autoimmune disease systemic sclerosis, also known as scleroderma.  His research is supported by the National Institutes of Health through a K08 Career Development Award and an R03 award focused on the functional consequences of a genetic variant in DNASE1L3 that increases susceptibility to systemic sclerosis.  He has previously been supported by the Arthritis National Research Foundation, Rheumatology Research Foundation, and UTHealth Houston’s Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences.