Gal­der­ma dri­ves di­ver­si­ty in der­ma­tol­ogy with on­line pho­to gallery spon­sor­ship

Dur­ing her res­i­den­cy, der­ma­tol­o­gist Misty El­eryan no­ticed that pa­tients of col­or were of­ten be­ing mis­di­ag­nosed or re­ceiv­ing de­layed di­ag­noses for their skin con­di­tions. Part of the rea­son why, she said, be­gins with a lack of rep­re­sen­ta­tion in text­books.

She and a team of doc­tors are on a mis­sion to change that — and this year, der­ma­tol­ogy gi­ant Gal­der­ma is join­ing the cause.

El­eryan and fel­low der­ma­tol­o­gist Adam Fried­man co-edit­ed “The Full Spec­trum of Der­ma­tol­ogy: A Di­verse and In­clu­sive At­las,” a data­base of more than 800 im­ages of com­mon­ly di­ag­nosed con­di­tions across var­i­ous skin tones pub­lished by health­care com­mu­ni­ca­tions com­pa­ny Sanova­Works. The orig­i­nal print ver­sion was pub­lished in 2021 and up­dat­ed last year, and thanks to fund­ing from Gal­der­ma, the group has launched an on­line data­base.

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