Protecting Skin of Color: Understanding Photodamage and Optimizing Sunscreen Strategies
Recent advances in photodermatology have expanded our understanding of how multiple wavelengths across the electromagnetic spectrum contribute to skin damage, aging, pigmentary disorders, and skin cancer risk. While ultraviolet (UV) radiation has traditionally been the primary focus of sun protection, visible light (VL), high-energy visible (HEV) light, infrared (IR) radiation, and even heat have …
Recent advances in photodermatology have expanded our understanding of how multiple wavelengths across the electromagnetic spectrum contribute to skin damage, aging, pigmentary disorders, and skin cancer risk. While ultraviolet (UV) radiation has traditionally been the primary focus of sun protection, visible light (VL), high-energy visible (HEV) light, infrared (IR) radiation, and even heat have … 
In the continuity clinic, the patients are there to see you! Most residency programs have some kind of continuity clinic. They vary across institutions and even across sites within the same institution. They can vary from one half-day per week to two full days per week, and be at the same site throughout the residency or change. An attending may staff each patient, or they may only see a patient i … 
ODAC Conference Co-Chair Susan Weinkle, MD, FAAD, is a scientist at heart, which means she’s frequently conducting aesthetic experiments on herself. In this Next Steps in Derm video interview, conducted in partnership with the ODAC Dermatology Conference, Dr. Weinkle shares some of the lessons she’s learned in 25 years of aesthetic self-treatment. For Dr. Weinkle, it’s meant admitting her se … 
Colorism is a long-held belief that is common in certain cultures or ethnic groups where lighter skin is considered more desirable than darker skin. While modern mainstream culture is more accepting of brown and black skin tones, colorism persists, particularly in African-American, East Asian, Hispanic and Middle Eastern cultures. Transmitted from one generation to another, colorism is a reason wh … 
There is more than meets the eye when it comes to diagnosing dermatologic disease. At the most recent Skin of Color Update conference in New York City, co-chair Dr. Andrew Alexis gave a case-based presentation on dermatologic clues to systemic disease in patients with skin of color. The cases highlighted how subtle pigmentary and textural changes in the skin can be the first presenting sign of …