Advisory Board Member Dr. Aisha Sethi is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Dermatology at the Yale University School of Medicine and Director of the Yale Dermatology Global Health Program .She was faculty in dermatology previously at the University of Chicago where she was Associate Professor of Dermatology and also the Director of Outreach for the Center for Global Health at the University of Chicago. After attending medical school in Pakistan, she completed her postdoctoral fellowship, internship, and residency in dermatology at Yale University, where she served as chief resident. Her interests in tropical medicine, immigrant minority and refugee populations, and global infectious diseases with dermatologic manifestations have led her to field work in Pakistan, Malawi, Jordan, the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in London, and Tanzania. She is especially interested in addressing global access to medical care, migrant health, medical diplomacy programs, and improving medical training and dermatologic therapies in developing countries. She has lectured on these latter issues nationally and internationally and published guidelines for streamlining refugee health in publications for the Chicago Council for Global Affairs and the WHO. In 2010, Dr. Sethi was chosen for the leadership program sponsored by the American Academy of Dermatology and was chosen by the Chicago Council of Global Affairs for the prestigious 2 year fellowship for Emerging Leaders in 2014. She has set up a dedicated dermatology elective exchange program with Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi, for medical students and dermatology residents since 2007. Her albinism awareness work in Malawi has been featured by national and international media and has been recognized and supported by the Malawian government. In 2010, Dr. Sethi was awarded the Presidential Volunteer Service Award from the White House Council on Service and Civic Participation for her volunteer efforts. She currently serves as the Chair of the community dermatology committee for the ISD (International Society of Dermatology) .
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