Yale Medicine Magazine

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.

Yale School of Medicine alumnus Brendan Jackson works for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention monitoring fungal diseases. His medical education helped prepare him to think outside of the box when evaluating problems with no obvious solution.

A profile of faculty member Amber Childs, who discusses projects she's leading, as well as the positive impact her mother had on her personal and professional trajectory.

Yale School of Medicine’s director of admissions, Damith Ayaska Fernando, died in early October, 2021, after a long battle with cancer that he kept hidden from almost everyone. This is an excerpt of a longer memorial piece published shortly after his passing.

Letter from the editor of Yale Medicine Magazine about the current issue, focused on research in and around Yale School of Medicine's Department of Dermatology.