Dr. Helen He specializes in general and cosmetic dermatology. She sees patients for a variety of skin and hair conditions, including eczema, psoriasis, acne, rosacea, melasma, vitiligo, alopecia, skin cancer screening, and more. She is also skilled in cosmetic procedures including neurotoxins, fillers, lasers, radio frequency microneedling, and chemical peels. Dr. He treats patients of all skin types and strongly believes in comprehensive, personalized, evidence-based, and equitable care that accounts for the patient’s unique intrinsic and environmental background. 

Dr. He also serves as an Assistant Professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai with a strong translational research background in inflammatory skin diseases and skin aging. She studies the molecular mechanisms of aging skin in healthy and inflamed skin across the spectrum of diverse skin types, with the goal of developing new strategies for treating inflammatory skin diseases and combatting skin aging. She has dozens of publications in high-impact journals in atopic dermatitis, aging, psoriasis, alopecia areata, vitiligo, ichthyosis, and more. She has presented her research and has been invited to speak at multiple national and international dermatology conferences. 

Dr. He is a proud native New Yorker. She completed her undergraduate degree in Biological Engineering at MIT and her medical school training at Mount Sinai, where she had a productive research fellowship year at the Laboratory of Inflammatory Skin Diseases led by Dr. Emma Guttman and graduated with distinction in research. Dr. He went on to also complete her dermatology residency training at Mount Sinai, where during her final year, she served as Cosmetic Chief for her residency program and was also funded by a T32 NIH research training grant.