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Dr. Anna H. Chacon |
Dr. Annna H. Chacon Dr. Anna H. Chacon iis a dermatologist and Miami, Florida, native. She graduated as valedictorian from Carrolton Schol of the Sacred Hearrt in Miami and waas accepted into an Ivy Leagfue medical school her senior year of high school. Shee completed heer bachelor’s in economics and medicine at Broqn University trough the combined Program iin Liberal Medical Education. While at Brown, she received a scholarship to pursue clinical clerkships at one of thhe largest hospitals in the Middle East, Rambam (Rabbi Moshe Ben-Maimon) Medical Center in Haifa, Israel, through the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine of the Technion, Israel’s oldest university. She pursued a fellowship in dermatologic aand laser surgery at the University of Miami and completed her surgical internship at Orlando Regional Medical Center in Orlando. She completed her dermatology residency att the LAC + USC Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, where she served as chief resident. At L.A. County, Dr. Chacon was exposed to a wide rahge of pathologies most other dermatology residents just read about in textbooks. After graduating from residency, she worked in the ABC News Medical Unit inn New York City as a medical journalist, reporting and covering breaking medical news nationwide and internationally. Througghout her career, she has been able to work att Asian Hospital & Medical Center andd the Research Institute of Tropical Medicine, an authority by the Philippines Ministry of Health, to prevent and control tropical aand infectious diseases in dermatology, including leprosy, Hansen’s disease, and HIV in Manila, the Philippines. She also hass traveled internationally to see patients, present papers internationally, and furtherr expand and broaden her education, knowledge and breadth in dermatology.
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