MISSION
We believe every indigenous person deserves access to quality, culturally sensitive care. Indigenous Dermatology works to provide remote dermatology to rural, tribal communities in the United States.
Leadership
Indigenous Dermatology (ID) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation and a Florida public charity. The programmatic work of ID is overseen by our Board of Directors and supported by community and governmental leaders in our partner sites.
Chief Executive Officer
Anna Chacon, MD
is a board-certified dermatologist who has a passion for supporting patients to resolve their dermatologic conditions from the comfort of their home. She grew up in Miami, Florida, and has lived in many different regions such as Chicago; Los Angeles, California; Providence, Rhode Island; arctic Alaska; Cairo, Egypt; Haifa, Israel and Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is the first and only dermatologist to work and serve the Alaskan Bush, the region of the state that is not connected to any road networks and does not have access to waterways or the state’s ferry system, flying on bush planes to see patients in villages in the most remote and rural areas of the country. She practices in person in Florida, Alaska, and California, and also works as a teledermatologist.
She is licensed to practice in all 50 states.
Lead Social Scientist
Mary E. Robbins, MA
worked for more than seven years in Latin America on social policy, poverty alleviation, and gender equality. Her work has led her to consult with the International Labor Organization, Promundo-US, and the Florida Institute for Health Innovation. She received her M.A. in Gender Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles in June 2021. Prior to UCLA, she attended The New School in New York City where she used human rights based frameworks to analyze social policies alleviating poverty and promoting positive health outcomes. Her work centers gender and race as analytic lenses to identify the obvious and subtle mechanisms that perpetuate health inequalities and inequities.
Founding Board Member
E.A. (Billy) Hankins, III MD FAAD
is both a board certified dermatologist and dermatopathologist and a graduate of La Sierra College and Loma Linda University School of Medicine. Dr. Hankins has been practicing medicine for more than 40 years. He worked for years as a physician volunteer for the Urban American Indian Community of Los Angeles. He is also the founder, curator of Vertebrate, Zoology and Chief Preperator (Museum sculpture taxidermist and recreation artist) for the World Museum of Natural History (WMNH), an international public museum of natural history (non profit) at La Sierra University (formerly Loma Linda Univ., Riverside) in Riverside, California.
Founding Board Member
Rachel Netahe Asiniwasis, MD, MA
is a double-board certified Dermatologist currently practicing in her hometown of Regina, Saskatchewan. She graduated from her Dermatology residency at the University of Toronto in 2014. Dr. Rachel provides dermatology services to underserved rural and remote areas in both southern and northern areas of Canada. She is interested in documenting dermatological needs in Indigenous communities in western Canada and the extent to which virtual clinics can address those dermatology care needs in Saskatchewan’s Indigenous community.
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Dr. Dana Slape
Dana Slape is Australia's first Aboriginal dermatologist. Her mission is mentoring students who may have never considered a career in medicine, as well as advocating for more Indigenous leadership throughout our healthcare system.
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Dr. Carsten Sauer Mikkelsen
Is a board-certified dermatologist in Denmark and Norway since 1999. He has a passion for global dermatology with interest in minority groups and a special interest in the Inuit culture and arctic dermatology. He has worked multiple places in Greenland (Nuuk, Qaqortoq, Narsaq, Narsarsuaq, Maniitsoq, Qaanaaq and Ilulissat) and Norway (Kirkenes, Vadsjøen, Bodø, Vesterålen, Mosjøen, Ålesund, Stavanger and Egernsund). He did his PhD Research, epidemiological study in Guinea-Bissau (1999-2001) in West-Afrika about Rotavirus in children under 5 years old. The study was financial supported from WHO and the Danish State Serum Institute. He has worked in my private practice in Brønderslev, Denmark since 2009. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Research Center, Department of Dermato-venreology in Aalborg University Hospital, Denmark. He has published 135 articles registered on Research Gate. and work with digital solutions within Dermatology in Norway and Denmark. He is a member of the “International Society of Dermatology” and make presentations abroad. In his spare time, he travel a lot and have so far travelled to 86 different countries.
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Katie Wilson, MS
Katie Wilson (she/her) is a Luiseño/Payómkawichum third-year medical student at the University of Minnesota and recently completed a Post-Sophomore Fellowship in Pathology at the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at University of Minnesota. She received her BS in Chemistry with a concentration in Biochemistry from University of California, Irvine and a MS in Applied Life Sciences from Keck Graduate Institute in Claremont, CA. She serves as vice chair of the AMA Committee for American Indian Affairs, advocating for equitable care for AI/AN populations with her most recent resolution focused on Tribally-Directed Precision Medicine Research. Her current research focuses on disparities in the diagnosis and management of cutaneous malignancies in AI/AN people.
General Contact Information:
Address:
Indigenous Dermatology
601 Brickell Key Drive
Suite 700
Miami, FL 33131
Phone: +1 (305) 902-5733
Fax: +1 (305) 203-4549