DermCare Experts

01/15/2026

Worse than we thought

Tanning bed use is tied to almost a threefold increase in melanoma risk and is shown to cause melanoma-linked DNA damage.

01/06/2026

Accomplishments!

First-year med student Fox Ryker (DO ’27) shares the challenges faced by those with autism while highlighting the strengths their unique perspective provides.

01/05/2026

Endurance!

My transformation was most apparent the day I realised that a digital re**al examination can be life-saving

12/26/2025

Congratulations!

Conching says her path to medicine began in high school when she considered how health disparities affect Native Hawaiian communities.

12/09/2025

We’ve posted about him before but always worth a reread!

"If somebody were to watch most of my life over the past few years, it would be me sitting in a quiet room by myself studying and laboring over mounds of information."

Dr. Carl Allamby grew up in a neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio where money was tight and life was hard. As a kid, he washed dishes and was a cook in a restaurant so he could afford his own clothes and school supplies. Dr. Allamby later got a job at an auto repair shop and became so skilled that he opened his own shop. He was proud of the work he did, but he always dreamed of becoming a doctor.

When Dr. Allamby was older, he finally decided to chase that dream. He went back to community college and studied every chance he got, even late at night after long days of work. He first took biology and other science classes to prepare for medical training. Dr. Allamby later went to the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, and he worked very hard to learn how to help patients. He never stopped learning.

All of his hard work paid off. Dr. Allamby finished medical school in 2019, and he became a practicing emergency doctor at 51 years old. He said that his years fixing cars taught him how to listen, solve problems, and treat people with kindness. In an interview with NPR, Dr. Allamby said, "If somebody were to watch most of my life over the past few years, it would be me sitting in a quiet room by myself studying and laboring over mounds of information." His story reminds all of us that it's never too late to go after your dreams.

(Photo: Courtesy of Dr. Carl Allamby / Cleveland Clinic Photography)

12/06/2025

Helping the world with her scientific and medical determination!

A 9-year-old saw her friends getting sick in class… so she fixed the air for the entire state.

At Commodore MacDonough STEM Academy in Middletown, Connecticut, 5th-grader Eniola Shokunbi noticed something adults had overlooked:

When the classroom windows stayed shut…
the air got heavy.
Kids coughed.
Absences climbed.

Most children would shrug it off.
Eniola didn’t.

“I think it’s really important for students to learn in a clean and healthy environment,” she said.

Then her teacher assigned a project: invent a way to protect students if another pandemic hit.

While other kids sketched drawings…
Eniola started researching.

She learned how viruses linger in the air — and how ventilation keeps people healthy. Then she found an article saying the White House was using a DIY air filter called a Corsi-Rosenthal Box — built with nothing more than:

• HVAC filters
• A box fan
• Cardboard + duct tape

Cost? About $60.
Effectiveness? Shockingly high.

So this 9-year-old did something bold:

She wrote a letter.
Not to Santa, not to the principal…
But to Marina Creed, director of UConn’s Indoor Air Quality Initiative.

She asked for the blueprints.

📬 And the scientist wrote back.

More than that — she showed up with a team of engineers and researchers.

They didn’t treat the kids like spectators.
They taught them how viruses travel, how filtration works, how to think like scientists.

Then the class built their first purifier together — decorated like their school mascot:

🦉 “Owl Force One.”

No fancy lab. No big budget.
Just cardboard and determination.

They installed it in the classroom… and waited for results.

But UConn wanted proof.
So researchers loaded Owl Force One into a car and drove it from Connecticut to the EPA’s bioaerosol testing lab in North Carolina — the same facility used to evaluate medical-grade purifiers.

The results?

⭐ 99.4% of infectious aerosols removed within 60 minutes
A $60 device outperforming machines that cost thousands.

Eniola didn’t stop there.

She spoke to school boards.
She met state leaders.
She stood beside the Lieutenant Governor and State Senator Matt Lesser at press conferences.

And she convinced lawmakers that clean air isn’t a luxury — it’s a right.

🗳️ October 2024
The Connecticut State Bond Commission voted unanimously to approve:
$11.5 million
for these student-built air cleaners in schools statewide.

One handwritten letter.
One science project.
Thousands of children protected.

Now 12 years old, Eniola wants to scale the project across America — and eventually?

She says she wants to be the first Black woman President.

If you ask her why she won’t slow down, she’ll tell you:

“If we’re not investing in science, we’re not investing in kids’ futures.”

Her story proves something the world forgets too easily:

✨ Innovation doesn’t wait for adulthood.
It begins with curiosity…
and one kid brave enough to ask why things can’t be better.

So the next time a child points out something wrong, listen closely.

You might be hearing the first spark
of the next public health revolution.

🦉💛 Here’s to Eniola — the girl who changed the air we breathe.

12/06/2025

Thank you to our patients! We appreciate you thinking of us this holiday season! And we are glad we can make a positive difference in your lives after all these years!

12/04/2025

Amazing Rhodes scholar pediatric neurosurgeon! A complete package!

Myron Rolle was drafted by the Tennessee Titans in the 2010 NFL Draft. He later spent time with the Pittsburgh Steelers but was released and never played in a regular-season NFL game. After leaving football, he returned to the path he had always intended to follow and pursued a career in medicine focused on helping children through neurosurgery.

Even before football, Rolle stayed focused on learning every day. As an undergraduate at Florida State University, he studied exercise science and completed his pre-medical requirements in just two and a half years. In 2008, he earned a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University in England and received a master's degree in medical anthropology. That experience helped prepare him for a future medical career even while he was still playing football.

After leaving the NFL, Dr. Rolle enrolled in the Florida State University College of Medicine and earned his medical degree.He completed his neurosurgery residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He then completed fellowship training in pediatric neurosurgery. Dr. Rolle is now a practicing pediatric neurosurgeon at Nemours Children’s Health in Florida. In his 2022 book The 2% Way, he wrote, "If you want to fulfill your potential and find your place in the world, you must first understand what you want to achieve and why. That requires examining your foundations. You are the sum of all your parts, even the ones buried in the past."

📸 (Photo: Allyn DiVito / Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital)

12/03/2025

Lovely Thanksgiving card from one of our long term patients - we are so grateful to be part of your community and to be able to help you and yours when you need us!

11/10/2025

Amazing!

During this year’s TCS New York City Marathon, NYU Grossman School of Medicine student Felicia Pasadyn ran the race of a lifetime: placing first among New York women, 8th among U.S. women, 14th among women overall, and qualifying for the 2028 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials with an incredible time of 2:35:17.

Felicia had hoped to qualify for the Olympic Trials by 2026 or 2027, but she didn’t expect to shatter the women’s 2:37:00 qualifying mark on one of the toughest marathon courses in the world. Just earlier this year, she ran 2:44:17 at the Boston Marathon, a similarly challenging course. “In my head, I thought an outstanding race in NYC would be breaking 2:40, so to go a 2:35:17 was absolutely incredible,” Felicia says. “I feel shocked, honored, and motivated to continue setting extremely ambitious goals.”

How does a student in NYU Grossman School of Medicine's accelerated three-year MD program find time to train for a marathon? For Felicia, it meant 3:45 a.m. wake-ups on clinical rotation days and carefully balancing her training, studies, sleep, and time with loved ones. “Sometimes when we are busy, the necessary 9 hours of sleep and proper fueling goes to the wayside, when in reality, it is of the utmost importance in stressful times,” Felicia notes. “I commit to 9.5 hours of sleep a night with no blue light in bed, as well as baking and cooking nutritious meals to fuel my brain and body. Complete game changer.”

Congratulations, Felicia, on this amazing achievement! 🎉

11/10/2025

11/06/2025

Thank you to our patient for these beautiful flowers! We love being there for our patients through thick and thin!