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Skin rashes are areas of irritated or swollen skin that can be red, itchy, bumpy, scaly, or painful. They can be caused by allergies, infections, medications, or underlying health conditions.
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Kenji Taylor, MD, MSc (Family Medicine, Primary Care)
Dr. Taylor is a Japanese-African American physician who grew up and was educated in the United States but spent a considerable amount of time in Japan as a college student, working professional and now father of three. After graduating from Brown, he worked in finance first before attending medical school at Penn. He then completed a fellowship with the Centers for Disease Control before going on to specialize in Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) where he was also a chief resident. After a faculty position at Stanford, he moved with his family to Japan where he continues to see families on a military base outside of Tokyo, teach Japanese residents and serve remotely as a medical director for Roots Community Health Center. He also enjoys editing and writing podcast summaries for Hippo Education.
Yoshinori Abe, MD (Internal Medicine)
Dr. Abe graduated from The University of Tokyo School of Medicine in 2015. He completed his residency at the Tokyo Metropolitan Health and Longevity Medical Center. He co-founded Ubie, Inc. in May 2017, where he currently serves as CEO & product owner at Ubie. Since December 2019, he has been a member of the Special Committee for Activation of Research in Emergency AI of the Japanese Association for Acute Medicine. | | Dr. Abe has been elected in the 2020 Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia Healthcare & Science category.
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https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.29.24312810v1Skuhala T, Trkulja V, Rimac M, Dragobratović A, Desnica B. Analysis of Types of Skin Lesions and Diseases in Everyday Infectious Disease Practice-How Experienced Are We? Life (Basel). 2022 Jun 29;12(7):978. doi: 10.3390/life12070978. PMID: 35888068; PMCID: PMC9319552.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9319552/Liu Y, Wang H, Taylor M, Cook C, Martínez-Berdeja A, North JP, Harirchian P, Hailer AA, Zhao Z, Ghadially R, Ricardo-Gonzalez RR, Grekin RC, Mauro TM, Kim E, Choi J, Purdom E, Cho RJ, Cheng JB. Classification of human chronic inflammatory skin disease based on single-cell immune profiling. Sci Immunol. 2022 Apr 15;7(70):eabl9165. doi: 10.1126/sciimmunol.abl9165. Epub 2022 Apr 15. PMID: 35427179; PMCID: PMC9301819.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35427179/The Generalized Rash: Part I. Differential Diagnosis, AAFP
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