Yale Medicine Magazine

In recent times, it has become clear that the skin is an important window into the human body's health. Many systemic diseases can be detected by dermatologists — sarcoidosis, lupus, lymphoma, fungal infections, and melanoma, to name some.

Scientists at YSM are keeping track of social media trends, looking for signs of emergent symptoms or conditions that may be good targets for research. Self-diagnosed patients on Facebook helped start meaningful research into "Long COVID."

The causes of acne skin lesions are still unclear, as are their relationship to underlying immunological conditions. Treatments exist for the physical damage, and for the psychological trauma of scarring.

Telemedicine and Telehealth have been feasible options for patients for years. A study highlighted dermatology's successful pandemic-era transition to distance care, increasing throughput and giving dermatologists more options to see patients.

Clinicians, educators, and researchers at Yale are working hard to make up for decades of neglect toward dermatological conditions and skin diseases as they manifest in darker skin tones.

The causes of dementia remain largely unknown to medicine. Scientists and researchers are working hard to connect what is known with gaps in treatment, and illuminating those mysteries that have yet to be resolved.

The Yale Center for Asylum Medicine brings people seeking asylum in the U.S. in and takes them through a clinic to evaluate them for medical conditions tied to their cases. This can improve their odds of being granted asylum dramatically.

Review of a book by school of medicine faculty member Christine Ko, whose experience as a patient and careful study of life lessons helped her develop a protocol for improving the quality of doctor-patient relationships.

Yale School of Medicine Dean Nancy J. Brown discusses how the Department of Dermatology relies on interdisciplinary research to burnish its reputation for excellence as well as working with the community to address health equity.

A Q&A with Keith Choate, MD, PhD, about his research over the years, how peers and mentors have affected and guided his work, and why interdisciplinary research informs almost everything that happens in YSM's department of dermatology.