Ethnic Dermatology – Principles and Practice

Dr. Andrew F. Alexis is the Director of the Skin of Colour Center, and an attending physician at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York City. He is also an Assistant Clinical Professor of Dermatology at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Alexis received his medical degree from Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, and his Master's of Public Health degree from Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health. He completed his dermatology residency at Weill Cornell Medical Center, and a fellowship in dermatopharmacology at New York University School of Medicine, all in New York City. Dr. Alexis currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Skin of Colour Society and is an active member of the American Academy of Dermatology Diversity Task Force Committee. He is also Past President of the New York Academy of Medicine Section on Dermatology and Treasurer of the Dermatology Society of Greater New York. Dr. Alexis has appeared on CBS, NBC, and FOX television news programs and has been quoted in numerous publications including Allure, Ebony, The New York Sun, Forbes.com, Upscale, Heart & Soul, Vibe Vixen, Sister 2 Sister, and Happi magazine. Author of numerous dermatology publications and an investigator in many clinical studies, Dr. Alexis' areas of interest includes the management of skin and hair disorders in patients with skin of colour. Dr Ophelia E. Dadzie is a Consultant Dermatologist and Dermatopathologist at St John's Institute of Dermatology, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK. She trained in medicine at St Mary's Hospital Medical School (Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) where she received a first class honours degree in biomedical sciences in 1995. She graduated in 1998 with a MBBS degree. Following this, she worked in various London teaching and district general hospitals in general medicine as a house officer, senior house officer and medical registrar. She obtained Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) in 2002. She undertook her dermatology specialist registrar training at the Hammersmith, Ealing and Chelsea and Westminster hospitals and received her CCST in dermatology in June 2009. In 2006 during her dermatology training she was awarded the Geoffrey Dowling award by the British Association of Dermatologists to help fund part of a 22-month training in dermatopathology at Boston University, USA. She now holds the first part of the Diploma in Dermatopathology exams (Royal College of Pathologists). She has written many articles in peer-reviewed journals (case reports, original research and review articles)-her area of expertise being in dermatopathology and ethnic dermatology/skin of colour. She is also the founder and director of Black Health Matters, an organization dedicated to educating ethnic minorities about issues pertaining to their health. She is also the organiser of the first ethnic skin course in the UK (website-www.londonethnicskin.com) and a member of GTPN, a sub-group of the French dermatological society focused on ethnic dermatology. Dr Antoine Petit is a senior physician at the department of Dermatology, Hopital Saint-Louis in Paris, France. Dr. Petit worked as "Interne des Hopitaux de Paris" from 1981 until 1987, including 15 months as a resident in French West Indies. He was appointed as "Chef de Clinique Assistant" in the Dermatology Department of Professor Civatte in the Hopital Saint-Louis in Paris in the 80's. In 1989, he joined the Dermatology Department of Dr. Sigal in Argenteuil (in the northern suburb of Paris), where he was appointed as a full time "Praticien Hospitalier" in 1993. In 2003, he came back to the Hopital Saint-Louis (Professor L. Dubertret, then Professor M. Bagot), where he is currently working. His main areas of interests are "Skin of Colour", Internal Medicine, Scleroderma and Keloids. He is also Copy Editor for the Annales de Dermatologie et de Venereologie, which is the official organ of the Societe Francaise de Dermatologie and is a member of GTPN (a sub-group of the French dermatological society focused on ethnic dermatology). Dr Petit has published extensively in the field of skin of color and has been instrumental in the introduction of a campaign by the mayor of Paris on the dangers of skin lightening/bleaching.

Chapter 1 Defining Ethnic Dermatology: Challenges, Limitations and Merits Ophelia E. Dadzie Chapter 2 Skin Semiology and Grading Scales in Patients with Richly Pigmented Skin Antoine Petit and Ameet Tailor Chapter 3 Common Skin Conditions and Ethnicity Antoine Petit and Moussa Diallo Chapter 4 Paediatric Dermatology and the Ethnic Patient Patricia A. Treadwell Chapter 5 Cutaneous Manifestations of Systemic Diseases Mahreen Ameen and Fatimata Ly Chapter 6 Drug Reactions and the Ethnic Patient Jean-Claude Roujeau Chapter 7 Photodermatoses and Phototherapy in the Ethnic Patient Richard H. Huggins and Henry W. Lim Chapter 8 HIV-related Skin Diseases Mahreen Ameen and Antoine Mahe Chapter 9 Benign Skin Tumours and Cysts in the Ethnic Patient Nita Agar and Dupe Odunsi Chapter 10 Malignant Skin Tumours and the Ethnic Patient Nita Agar, Bridget Ogawa and Jean-Jacques Morand Chapter 11 Treatment of Keloids and Scars Martha H. Viera, Alejandra C. Vivas and Brian Berman Chapter 12 Vitiligo: Clinical Presentation and Management Fatima Al-Faresi , Viktoria Eleftheriadou, Sanjeev V. Mulekar and Hassan Galdari Chapter 13 Other Causes of Hypopigmentation -- What not to Miss Ousmane Faye Chapter 14 Facial Hyperpigmentation -- A Practical Approach to Diagnosis and Management Camille Fitoussi Chapter 15 Hair and Scalp Disorders in Women of African Descent Ophelia E. Dadzie and Nonhlanhla P. Khumalo Chapter 16 Dermatologic Disorders in Men of African Descent F.N. Quarles, Marcelyn Coley and Andrew F. Alexis Chapter 17 Hair Transplantation in People of African Descent Jack Smadja Chapter 18 Lasers and the Ethnic Patient Heather Woolery-Lloyd and Kristian Figueras Chapter 19 Cosmetic Dermatology in Ethnic Skin Leila Ferguson, Anthony Rossi, Hassan I. Galadari and Andrew F. Alexis Chapter 20 The Cosmetic Use of Skin Lightening Products Antoine Mahe