Proceedings of the Fifth SKIN SPECTRUM SUMMIT

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From the
SKIN
SPECTRUM SUMMIT
CURRUCULUM
CHAIRS
February 2020
Will you join us in supporting diversity and inclusiveness in dermatologic care?
Dear Colleague:
D R. GARY
SIBBALD DR R. DANIELLE MARCOUX DR. JASON RIVERS
Derma tologist and Internist
Professor of Medicine and
Public Health, University of Toronto
Derma tologist
CHU Sainte-Justine
University of Montréal
Dermatologist
Clinical Professor of Dermatolog
y
University of British Columbia
We welcome you to this annual edition of the Proceedings of Skin Spectrum Summit.
As these Proceedings are being distributed, we are preparing the sixth annual iteration of the Summit,
a live Continuing Medical Education event. This year’s conference will be national in scope and will
be held at the Chestnut Conference Centre of the University of Toronto on Saturday, April 18. You are
encouraged to register and attend this accredited session.
It strikes us that several things have changed since the first Summit was held in 2014. Interest in the
clinical subject of Ethnodermatology has grown demonstrably over these years, and we are gratified to
have played a role in raising awareness. Practitioners and researchers are gaining practical therapeutic
knowledge, through observation, trials, and genomic research, about the traits shared across our different
lineages -- as well as some factors that may somewhat distinguish us.
Our primary goal has been to facilitate better care for our Canadian communities.
The celebration of diversity and inclusiveness are key to the Canadian character, and the provision
of access to care for all has become the principle that in several ways defines who we are as a nation. Yet,
we note with concern from watching the evening newscasts that there is by no means universal acceptance
of these humanitarian values; moreover, in certain jurisdictions there are controversies affixed to
providing clinical care to immigrants and refugees.
As we have stated in previous editions of this publication: as physicians, we know that levels of
melanin may represent in several meaningful ways the least of our differences. We are all ethnic, and we
are all continuously learning from, and teaching each other.
We hope you will join our eminent faculty for the 2020 Skin Spectrum Summit in Toronto for a lively
and rewarding exploration and exchange of knowledge
concerning the treatment of cutaneous disorders
in different populations, particularly those
with Fitzpatrick skin types III through IV.
Please enjoy this monograph, and do consider
attending this year’s national Skin Spectrum Summit.
You may register at the conference website,
www.skinspectrum.ca
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