Miscellaneous

Are you considering a career in Medicine/Dermatology? Dr. Neda Mehr shares her candid insights about her path to becoming a physician. Dr. Mehr discusses what she loves about being a dermatologist; the challenges of owning her own private practice; the truth about a physician's lifestyle and much more.

In this segment about the field of dermatology, you'll hear about what types of skin ailments dermatologists treat - from mole checks and removals, acne and pimples, warts, rashes, and even in some cases, STDs. Dr. Mehr also dispels some common misconceptions of being a dermatologist (they are not just pimple poppers or botox procedures!) and what are the personality traits necessary to be a great dermatologist.

Segment 1: Overview
Segment 2: About Dermatology
Segment 3: Education And Training (Part 1)
Segment 4: Education And Training (Part 1)
Segment 5: Practicing Medicine - Being A Dermatologist
Segment 6: Lifestyle
Segment 7: The Industry Today
Segment 8: Final Thoughts and Words of Wisdom

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Between you and the rest of the world lies an interface that makes up 16% of your physical weight. This is your skin, the largest organ in your body: laid out flat, it would cover close to 1.7 square metres of ground. But besides keeping your organs in, what is its purpose? Emma Bryce takes us into the integumentary system to find out.

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Can a computer recognise skin cancer? Andre Esteva and colleagues have trained a neural network to identify the difference between harmless moles and potentially deadly skin conditions - with remarkable accuracy.

Read the full paper here

"Dermatologist-level classification of skin cancer with deep neural networks"

by Andre Esteva, Brett Kuprel, Roberto A. Novoa, Justin Ko, Susan M. Swetter, Helen M. Blau & Sebastian Thrun
January 25, 2017

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How to use molecular biology to reverse aging

Welcome back to What’s NEXT, the podcast exploring the technology of the future. In this episode, host Fernanda Baker speaks with Carolina Reis Oliveria, founder and CEO of OneSkin Technologies, about understanding the molecular biology of aging and the potential of reversing that process.

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