UC Irvine Health Dermatology Center

03/10/2024

AAD Conference 2024

04/18/2023

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05/19/2021

When the Covid-19 pandemic hit and healthcare workers faced a desperate shortage in PPE, Aditi Sharma, who is finishing a dermatology residency at UC Irvine, vowed to help solve the problem. She founded Recycablu, a non-profit that uses surgical waste to make effective face masks.

03/04/2021

Come to our 3rd Annual Residency Open House: Diversity in Graduate Medical Education: Saturday May1, from 9 AM to 12PM

Here is the link to the 3rd Annual Residency Open House site, which includes the agenda and registration link.

The University of California, Irvine School of Medicine is proud to announce the 3rd annual Diversity in Graduate Medical Education Residency Open House, held virtually this year. As an institution, it is our mission to promote inclusive excellence by recruiting and supporting a wide array of physic...

06/10/2020

Dr. Anand Ganesan discusses RhoJ Inhibitors: A Novel Treatment for Early Stage Melanoma

Visit anti-cancerchallenge.org or cancer.uci.edu to learn more. Video by Penny Lee, UCI School of Medicine

05/22/2020

Way to go! Our resident physician Dr. Aditi Sharma is turning discarded sterilization wrap into face masks

A third-year resident in the department of dermatology at the University of California, Irvine has kicked off a passion project turning discarded sterilization wrap into face masks with a high filter efficiency. She hopes these will fill a need as well as reserve N95 masks and surgical masks for tho...

05/14/2020

Congratulations to our residents, research fellows, and medical students for being published in this issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

https://www.jaadcasereports.org/article/S2352-5126(20)30165-X/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email

https://www.jaadcasereports.org/article/S2352-5126(20)30161-2/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email

Alopecia areata is a nonscarring hair loss disorder caused by an autoimmune attack on the hair follicle.1 The disease process is thought to result from breakdown of the hair follicle immune privilege, followed by inflammatory infiltration at the base of the follicle, and then transition of the hair....

04/30/2020

UCI Dermatology Resident Dr. Aditi Sharma works with local fabric businesses to produce thousands of face masks for hospital workers

https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/entertainment/story/2020-04-29/uc-irvine-and-local-business-team-up-to-produce-new-type-of-mask?fbclid=IwAR0BQF8GUtXgAOgef6Uzo71rYC7UoG-Io25KSfRJtiUvEF9f8y3bYkZNswE

02/26/2020

UCI Health dermatology fellow Dr. Hayley Goldbach weighs in in a Washington Post review of the sometimes heated online discussions about skin care products

Reddit threads on Vaseline, Twitter battles over Cetaphil: If there’s a discussion to be had about a cult-favorite product, both sides will make sure you know their opinions.

02/04/2020

Transplant Patients at Higher Risk for Skin Cancer

Those transplants are lifesaving, but research reveals that organ recipients are much more likely than others to develop skin cancers.

01/21/2020

Congratulations to UCI MSP student, Alyssa Ashbaugh and ICTS Post Doc, Chloe Ekelem for grabbing Dermatology Headlines!

Healio (1/7, Volansky) reports, “Prevalence rates of psoriasis are lower among the Latino population than the white or black population in the U.S., but Latino populations are often disproportionately affected by poorer quality of life and disease severity,” researchers concluded. After examinin...