Joy and inspiration. That’s how I would describe today’s
@glodermalliance
session at
#wcd2023
. We flew 16 mentee emerging leaders in
#dermatology
to Singapore, all focused on increasing access to care, pictured here with their mentors &
@ilds
team. Career highlight for me! A 🧵:
Dermatology lost a giant. Sam Moschella, one of the world’s
#leprosy
experts, was 101. Until the pandemic, I drove him to Grand Rounds
@HarvardDerm
every month. Then 98, he was sharp as tack. I saved all my hardest cases for our rides together. May I mentor like you.
#dermtwitter
It’s an honor of a lifetime to be invited to share our work training the next generation of
#dermatology
leaders across the globe w/ the
@WHO
in Geneva. Speaking @ opening session of 1st ever WHO Global Meeting on Skin Neglected Tropical Diseases
#beatNTDs
#skinNTDs
#dermtwitter
So grateful to
@WHO
Director General
@DrTedros
for joining 1st Global Meeting on Skin Neglected Tropical Diseases. It was my honor as chair of the training session to welcome him to the floor & discuss global access to skin health.
#beatNTDs
#skinNTDs
@glodermalliance
@ILDSDerm
When
#LongCovid
is in the skin, results from an international registry, "raising questions about persistent inflammation even in patients who initially experienced relatively mild covid-19"
@TheLancetInfDis
@devonemcmahon
@DrEstherFreeman
and collaborators
I emailed a respected colleague in Europe, and got this reply: “I am on summer break. In August I will not do anything work related. Enjoy summer and let’s connect in September.” Jealous and impressed all at the same time. Americans, why don’t we do this?
#lifegoals
#dermtwitter
Just had a paper accepted that has been going through the revision process with a journal for 3 years. Keep plugging and you’ll get there!
#dermtwitter
An inspiring visit to the University of Global Health Equity’s Butaro Rwanda campus, to meet their first two classes of Rwandan medical students. Can’t wait to come back!
@ughe_org
@MGHGlobalHealth
@MassGeneralMDs
Ever wondered what a dermato-epidemiologist is? That’s us! We are MD-trained
#dermatologists
with expertise in epidemiology, public health, and statistical methods. Our small but mighty crew
#AAD2023
To all the
#dermatology
hopefuls who did not match today - this is not the end of the road. You are strong, smart, deserving - there are just so few slots. Don’t give up. Apply again. I know many wonderful derms that had to go through the match more than once.
#dermtwitter
Honored to take on this leadership role directing clinical innovation & education at
@MGHGlobalHealth
as an Associate Director of the Center for Global Health. Super excited to join the incredible team led by
@drlouiseivers
!
#medtwitter
#dermtwitter
Today, we at CGH are excited to announce that
@DrEstherFreeman
has been appointed as Associate Director of the Center for Global Health, for Clinical Innovation and Education!
Join us in congratulating Dr. Freeman!
A career highlight: receiving the 2024 Mentor of the Year Award from the Women’s Dermatologic Society, surrounded by my mentees from the U.S., Tanzania, Rwanda, Kenya, and Burundi.
@WomensDerm
#AAD2024
@ILDSDerm
@AADmember
I learn more from them than they do from me!
#thankful
Please join us in congratulating
@DrEstherFreeman
, our new Section Editor who will be heading the Global Health & Equity section!🎉
Dr. Freeman is an Associate Professor
@HarvardMed
, Director of Global Health Dermatology
@MassGeneralNews
, and founding chair of
@glodermalliance
.
An incredible start to the
@WHO
Global Meeting on
#SkinNTDs
(Skin Neglected Tropical Diseases) over 600 global experts in person and online coming together to
#beatNTDs
. I’ll try to live tweet here, but the discussion is moving fast & furiously!
#dermtwitter
#StrongerTogether
It’s bittersweet for me to announce that I’ll be moving on from
@glodermalliance
to become the Vice Chair of
@IFDerm
. 5 years ago, I could not have imagined we would grow to become 1000 members from 54 countries…
#WCD2023Singapore
I’m the dermatologist who works with
@KimberlyBlumen1
on vaccine adverse skin reactions, and my kids are all vaccinated against
#covid19
(and were enrolled in early phase vaccine trials!).
#dermtwitter
My kids: please bring us stuffed animals home from your trip, mommy.
Me, super excitedly: look guys I got you a tick and a bed bug from the World Health Organization!
My kids: …
#drmom
#theywantedaunicorn
#dermtwitter
I feel that my role as a
#dermatologist
in
#COVID19
was fulfilled today. An infectious disease doc emailed me to say she tested a patient with a new rash for
#Covid
, based on a lecture I gave. Patient was PCR positive! We can all help stop the spread.
#dermtwitter
#MedTwitter
That was AMAZING. What an incredible way to open
#AAD2022
, with our annual
@glodermalliance
mtng. In-person attendees from Tanzania, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, joined by virtual audience from Sudan, Colombia, Australia, India, Egypt, amng others
#dermtwitter
@ILDSDerm
@AADskin
A wonderful first day in Tanzania learning from the incredible crew at the Regional Dermatology Training Center
@RDTCTZ
.
@glodermalliance
mentees & trainee committee members making us proud!
#dermtwitter
#globalhealth
Can’t wait for more tomorrow! You can still join us on zoom!
You know what I’m thrilled about? We are about to put 16 dermatology changemakers - leaders in global health - on planes from the Congo, Brazil, Rwanda, Indonesia, Vietnam, St Lucia, Burundi and others - and fly them to Singapore for
#WCD2023Singapore
.
@glodermalliance
united ❤️
Published today!
@WHO
Living Atlas for
#Mpox
skin lesions. A 1st of its kind collaboration (clinical trials, dermatologists, & other mpox experts) across the 🌍to share images & language for describing cutaneous & mucosal lesions.
#dermtwitter
#idtwitter
The third Freemanism from Dad via
@DFisman
was: “When you show math to doctors, they think you’re trying to trick them, and they get angry." Thankfully, I think this is less true now than 20 years ago. Thanks to the
#infectiousdiseases
community for all that you do!
#staysafe
Every year, as an annual right of passage, I fail the fire extinguisher training required by our hospital
@MassGeneralMDs
. 4 yrs undergrad, 1yr masters, 3 yrs PhD, 4 yrs MD, 4 yrs residency -> still cannot correctly put out trashcan fire. You have been warned. 🔥
#dermtwitter
Congratulations
@MishaRosenbach
on an excellent Grand Rounds
@HarvardDerm
- no one else has the ability to make the topic of granulomatous disease informative and fun at the same time. Cutaneous sarcoidosis? Check an EKG!
#dermtwitter
Our specialty, Dermatology, seems to exacerbate this sort of issue. I’m a researcher who *loves* research, but not everyone does - and shouldn’t be made to. The world needs people who will make good doctors and contribute to the field in other ways too.
#dermtwitter
#MedTwitter
The research arms race for U.S. medical students
The average *unmatched* applicant in 2020 had more abstracts, presentations, and publications than the average *matched* applicant did in 2009.
(Data from
@TheNRMP
Charting Outcomes in the Match)
Today marks 1 year since we launched the
#COVID19
Dermatology Registry, in collaboration with the
@AADskin
and
@ILDSDerm
. Together, we have learned so much! >2000 cases entered, 52 countries, and now over 600 COVID vaccine skin reactions.
#dermtwitter
#MedTwitter
- A thread
We have
@HarvardDerm
Grand Rounds every month, but this is the 1st time I’ve dialed in from Kenya. Loved sharing the experience with our Kenyan trainees - the future of dermatology is bright! Showed off our ☀️while it’s ❄️ in Boston.
#dermtwitter
@glodermalliance
@DrStevenTChen
Thank you to
@HenryFordHealth
for inviting me to speak on the global access to care crisis in
#dermatology
. My first visit to Michigan! Highlights included meeting wonderful derm residents, dinner w/ chair Dr. Ozog & incoming
@ILDSDerm
president Dr. Henry Lim.
#dermtwitter
The first Freemanism
@DFisman
shared was: "When confronted with an outbreak, your job is to make it stop."
People have asked why I have been speaking to
#media
before all our
#covid19
data is published. This quote from my Dad is my answer.
#MedTwitter
#dermtwitter
Today, we celebrate one of the world’s greatest
#dermatology
diagnosticians: Richard Allen “DJ” Johnson. After 50 years, this famous textbook author, mentor, and friend, is retiring from Massachusetts General Hospital
@MassGeneralMDs
@HarvardDerm
. We love you DJ!
#dermtwitter
When your husband doesn’t like one of your kids school’s (relatively strict) COVID travel policies, and you’re trying to decide whether to tell him you’re the one that wrote it...
#dermtwitter
#MedTwitter
How much do I love that board-certified
#dermatologists
were just featured on a Super Bowl commercial? Very much, especially when one of them is rockstar derm
@DrMichelleHenry
(who I can brag trained with us
@HMSCombinedDerm
for fellowship)
Thanks
@cerave
! (Plus, it was funny).
When you’re a dermatologist, and half of packing for vacation is deciding which sunscreen to bring for which occasion. It’s like our version of the little black dress.
#dermtwitter
This might be my favorite
#dermatology
meeting ever.
#WorldSkinSummit
brings leaders from around the globe to Peru to brainstorm improved access to care, patient engagement, outbreak response, health policy, & international collabs. Lots of new ideas!
@ILDSDerm
#dermtwitter
This is my kid! Proud. Here’s
#Pfizer
data submitted to
@US_FDA
- chills reading this - he was one of 49 kids nationwide in Phase 1 safety trial, and one of the youngest. I may be a
#COVID19
researcher, but I my kiddo contributed more to science this year than I did.
#dermtwitter
Thank you
@DrTedros
@WHO
for wrapping up
#skinNTD
mtg highlighting calls to action: in-country leadership, including patients, integration & cross-cutting, and funding. Session chaired by
@ILDSDerm
@IFDerm
Rod Hay. “May the rain fall softly on your shoulders until we meet again.”
Key messages
@DrTedros
#SkinNTD
meeting: 1) Country ownership is crucial for delivery 2) No programme can succeed without involvement of patients & they must be central to decision making. 3) Can not achieve UHC without NTDs. Messages to focus our actions over the next decade
I’ve never been more proud to be a scientist mom: today, my son’s data was sent to
@US_FDA
by
@pfizer
as part of the package to request EUA
#CovidVaccine
for kids 5-11. He wants everyone to know he joined the trial so his classmates could get vaccinated.
#dermtwitter
#MedTwitter
Collectively, this group represents 5 department chairs, 1 national society president, & 1 medical school dean, from 7 countries. Lessons in diplomacy from these powerhouse female physicians that I’ll take with me for a long time
@ILDSDerm
#dermtwitter
#WomenInMedicine
And that’s a wrap,
#AAD2023
! 4 scientific talks, 7 receptions, 3 committee mtgs, 5 international collaborator mtgs, 2 media interviews, 1 parade, countless memories. A big thnx to my research fellows
@alexisgstrahan
@JanetLubov
(in absentia) - unintentional matching
#dermtwitter
We're thrilled to announce
@DrEstherFreeman
as the new Vice-Chair of IFD! 🎉 With her extensive experience in global health dermatology and leadership in establishing GLODERM, she's a perfect fit. Let's welcome her to the team and make a difference in
#SkinHealth4theWorld
. 🤝
I ran a half marathon in June. Got COVID in July. This is my first time running since. All words of encouragement accepted! I do have the cutest running buddy.
#medtwitter
#dermtwitter
Just over 2 years ago, I made a folder in my Dropbox called "COVID." It now contains >30 publications we've written on the topic. Today, I made a new folder called "Monkeypox." Let's just try to keep it empty, OK?
#dermtwitter
#lifeofaninfectiousdiseasedermatologist
Two pictures, 38 hours of travel apart (yep, same clothes). Made it from northern Rwanda - past a mudslide blocking the road - back home to my daughter’s dance recital exactly 7 minutes before she went onstage. Priceless.
#dermtwitter
@glodermalliance
@MGHGlobalHealth
@IFDerm
I just spoke at a career session, and I was reminded that trainees need to hear that it’s ok to be bad at something. If it helps, give yourself permission: choose to be bad at something for a month. Maybe it’s laundry. Maybe it’s a lab technique.
#letitgo
#notperfect
#dermtwitter
Congrats to
@DrEstherFreeman
for being named one of 20
@Medscape
Rising Stars in medicine for spearheading a 41-country
#dermatology
registry, which helped identify COVID toes as a symptom of mild disease, and for her pioneering work on HIV-associated Kaposi sarcoma.
#dermtwitter
Some projects stretch you in ways you could not imagine. For me, that's our latest in
@LancetGH
, a result of 2 yrs intensive, trans-continental
#teamscience
. Cost-effectiveness of chemotherapy for Kaposi sarcoma: (1/8)
@EmilyHyle
@ampathkenya
#medtwitter
Imagine being one of 12 dermatologists serving a population of 13 million people. And then imagine being the change: a shout out to Dr. Alice Amani & colleagues who have started the first ever dermatology residency program in Rwanda.
#inspired
#brightfuture
#dermtwitter
@IFDerm
You know what else is really interesting? We also saw pernio/chilblains
#COVIDtoes
after
#COVIDvaccines
, suggesting that a) the host immune response to the virus is being replicated by vaccine and b)
#covidtoes
may be from immune response to the virus
#dermtwitter
@USATODAY
Inspirational to be here at the
#WorldSkinSummit
in Peru with dermatology thought leaders from around the globe. A particular thank you to
@ILDSDerm
(pic here w/ President & friend Lars French) for supporting our work on
#COVID19
&
#monkeypox
for the last 2.5 years!
#dermtwitter
People often ask what it’s like being a mom of young kids who travels for
#globalhealth
. This time, my kids sent me w/ Polka Dot Unicorn (sadly lost a horn in Rwanda) and Pirate. They took photos to share w/ my kiddos & made lots of new friends.
@MGHGlobalHealth
@glodermalliance
Nice to see a spread in Harvard Medicine magazine about all things skin! Pumped to be featured along with others on
#DermTwitter
such as
@DrEstherFreeman
Mentorship - one of the greatest gifts I’ve been given, and one that I’m lucky I can now share with the next generation.
@Doriane_Sabu
you inspire me daily 🇧🇮. (& sometimes you even get to co-mentor w/ your friends - legendary Dean Ncoza Dlova 🇿🇦!)
#dermtwitter
@glodermalliance
I feel like it’s important to acknowledge new beginnings. Here, my first walk from my Dermatology office to
@MGHGlobalHealth
to direct Clinical Innovation & Education for the center. Excited to build this community across
@MassGeneralMDs
(and RNs!).
#globalhealth
@mgh_mpec
The second Freemanism from my Dad
@DFisman
shared was: "When journalists want to ask you questions, keep answering their questions until they get bored with you."
Let's just say I'm learning a lot about interacting with the media. Mostly positive!
📢 Thrilled to announce that applications for our 2nd class of
@glodermalliance
leadership mentees is now LIVE! A huge thanks to
@cerave
for their incredible support. Please spread the word! Applications due Feb 3.
#globalhealth
#dermtwitter
Hey
#dermtwitter
, the future is bright! Introducing the newly minted DR.
@devonemcmahon
. Congratulations to all the medical students earning their MDs this month!
It’s
#ERAS
season. Here’s a few things I’ve learned mentoring
#BIPOC
students the last few years. 1) it’s astounding to me how many people will go out of their way to tell qualified minority students *not* to apply to competitive fields. Why? WHY?
Delayed cutaneous reactions developed in 12 patients, days after initial injection-related symptoms resolved. The reactions, some as severe as grade 3, resolved in a few days with local therapy, and all 12 patients received the second
#COVID19
vaccination.
#IDTwitter
It’s the time of year we say goodbye to our wonderful graduating
@HarvardDerm
residents - had the chance to work with
@niklebanov
this week and I’ll just say they are ready to LAUNCH! (Sorry I’ll miss the ceremony). Congrats to all residency graduates this month!
#dermtwitter
Such a thrill & inspiration to open the inaugural class of
@glodermalliance
mentees in
#globalhealth
#dermatology
leadership. Can’t wait to learn from this group from India, Indonesia, Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Burundi, Mexico, Brazil, Ecuador, USA, UK, Israel & Canada
#dermtwitter
Growing up, my father’s mantra to me was “little girls can be anything, little girls can be President.” Tonight, we are one step closer. Feeling my Dad’s spirit, as I look into my own daughter’s eyes.
#doctorsforbiden
#MedTwitter
To quote my friend
@IngridKatzMD
, promotion matters because representation of
#WomenInMedicine
matters. Today, I joined the 14% of faculty
@harvardmed
who are Associate Professor, of whom only 35% are women.