Dr. Skach received his BS in Biochemistry and Biophysics from Oregon State University in 1979 and his MD Degree from Harvard Medical School in 1983. He completed clinical training in Internal Medicine, Hematology and Oncology at University of California, San Francisco and then undertook postdoctoral studies with Vishwanath Lingappa, also at UCSF. He started his laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania and moved to OHSU in 1998.