Dr. John Patrick Whelan

Medical Advisor

Dr. John Patrick Whelan, MD Ph.D. is an Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Rheumatology at UCLA. He completed his undergraduate degree in biochemistry at Harvard University, the Ph.D. degree at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, and the MD degree at Baylor College of Medicine. He completed rheumatology training at Harvard and was for twenty years a pediatric rheumatologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. His research interests pertain to non-inflammatory vasculopathies, particularly Kohlmeier-Degos disease.

Dr. Shapiro’s and Dr. Whelan’s joint efforts began over a decade ago when Dr. Shapiro consulted Dr. Whelan regarding a critically ill pediatric Degos patient.  One result of this collaboration has been the development of an international Degos Disease study group.