Spotlight on: Steve Feldman

Steve Feldman is a question generating machine and maker of magic with tongue depressors. It takes an unusual mind to find links between medical research, mathematical models and world peace, but somehow Dr. Feldman manages to do exactly that.   Why dermatology? I went into dermatology because I had a really bad case of poison ivy.  At the end of the […]

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Dermatology: Big in Japan

Around the time of the International Congress in 1889, the first Japanese dermatologist came to Europe to study dermatology.  His name was Kentaro Murata, and he taught the inaugural dermatology course at the Imperial University (University of Tokyo) in 1890.  Shortly thereafter, Murata died in 1892– leaving Japan without a professor of dermatology.  This coincided with young physician Keizo […]

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