Mentorship Class of 2022-2023

Lucia Fernandez is an Attending Physician at the Dermatology Department of the University Hospital in Monterrey, northern Mexico.
During her residency programme Lucia managed a free leprosy clinic that offered both treatment and education on early signs and symptoms.

Lucia is excited to join the Programme to develop skills in policy design and implementation, building healthcare programmes as well as leadership skills.

Her aim is to go on to deliver quality healthcare to disadvantaged populations such as migrants and refugees, using an intersectional approach. Lucia will be mentored by Claire Fuller.

Mentor: Dr. Claire Fuller

Having trained at The Regional Dermatology Training Center in Moshi, Tanzania, Gaylord works in Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
His focus is on addressing the high rate of skin cancers in people with albinism, a country where there are few dermatologists outside the capital, Kinshasa.

Working with his mentor, Wingfield Rehmus, Gaylord is keen to develop skills to enable him to write grant and funding proposals, build community outreach educational projects and publish the results of his work.

Mentor: Wingfield Rehmus

Based in Indonesia, Marlous works as a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Oxford, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health.
Her research focuses on neglected tropical skin diseases, in particular leprosy and scabies, and improving access to health care in remote settings. Marlous initiated teledermatology service bringing together Indonesian and international dermatologists to support rural communities in Sumba.

With her mentor, Esther Freeman, Marlous aims to develop leadership skills, expand her network and cultivate new ideas for projects which will have a sustained impact on the well-being and health of communities in Indonesia and elsewhere.

Mentor: Esther Freeman

Yared is a final year dermato-venereology resident at Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia.

Yared has joined the Mentorship Programme to learn from some of the world’s best dermatologists, so that he can work to fill critical gaps in community awareness, outreach education and training, and increase capacity and the quality of health care in Ethiopia, especially among impoverished communities suffering from neglected tropical diseases.

Mentor: Archana Singal.

Jose trained in dermatology and dermatopathology in the US before moving back to Ecuador where he now leads the Department of Dermatology at Hospital Guasmo Sur.

His aim is to improve the training of dermatologists in his country.

Working with his mentor, Roni Dodiuk-Gad, Jose hopes the Mentorship Programme will help him in his objectives of setting up a formal residency programme to train dermatologists in Ecuador, reinvigorating the Ecuadorian Dermatology Society, and re-establishing a dermatology journal for the country.

Mentor: Roni Dodiuk-Gad

Doriane has a Masters Degree in Dermatology and Venereology, and works at the The Regional Dermatology Training Center in Moshi, Tanzania, where she has been inspired by RDTC community projects which changed people’s lives through health education and training for health workers.

Doriane is keen to gain skills with her mentor, Toby Maurer, to enable her to write funding proposals, set up training projects, and build community outreach projects, with a particular focus on implementing an outreach programme for people living with albinism in Doriane’s home country, Burundi.

Mentor: Toby Maurer

Luísa is a dermatology resident at the Hospital Santa Casa de Curitiba in Brazil.

She is an active member of the GLODERM community and has co-presented a class on “Low Cost Accessible Vitiligo Treatments” as part of the GLODERM Trainee educational webinar series, and works to combat discrimination against people with vitiligo.

By joining the Mentorship Programme, Luísa hopes to develop leadership skills, in order to help to provide health interventions for population groups in vulnerable conditions and to be able to build community outreach educational projects in Brazil.

Mentor: Kari Wanat.

Claire has been a consultant dermatologist for more than 20 years and is based in London.

Claire has served as the Vice-Chair of GLODERM since its inception for five consecutive years.

She is currently the Chair of the International Foundation for Dermatology.

Mentee: Lucia Fernandez

Toby is a Professor of Clinical Dermatology at Indiana University.

She is currently leading the global health programme for AMPATH and working with refugee communities worldwide.

Mentee: Doriane Sabushimike

Kari Wanat is currently on faculty as an Associate Professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee where she practices complex medical dermatology, inpatient consults, and dermatopathology and is the Residency Program Director.

She is passionate about increasing access to dermatology care to underserved populations both locally and abroad through work in global health, teledermatology, and medical education.

She has collaborators in Tanzania and Niger.

Mentee: Luísa Polo Silveira

Archana has been teaching in a medical college and government hospital that caters to the poor and economically underprivileged population of India for over 25 years.

She is passionate about tropical dermatology.

Mentee: Yared Mekonnen

Esther Freeman MD PhD FAAD is Past-Chair of GLODERM and Founder of the GLODERM Mentorship.

She is the Director of Global Health Dermatology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School.

She has worked to improve healthcare, especially those affected by HIV, in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and southeast Asia since 2003.

She has collaborated with the World Health Organization. Most recently, her work includes COVID-19 as Principal Investigator of the international COVID-19 Dermatology Registry, which is a collaboration between the AAD and the ILDS.

Mentee: Marlous Grijsen

Wingfield Rehmus is currently the head of pediatric dermatology at BC Children’s Hospital which provides dermatology services to children from throughout British Columbia including small remote communities.

Her team also works in collaboration with a social pediatrics network in downtown Vancouver called RICHER, which is embedded into the community to support children and families living in vulnerable situations.

Mentee: Gaylord Inena Wa Inena

Roni is head of the Inflammatory and Autoimmune Skin diseases Unit, Dermatology Department in Emek Medical Center, and head of the Dermatology Programme in Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion – Institute of Technology, Israel and an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Mentee: Jose Ollague