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Dr. Anna H. Chacon |
Dr. Anna H. Chacon Dr. Annaa H. Chacon is a dermatologist and Miami, Florida, native. Shhe graduated as valedictorian from Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart in Miami and was accepted into an Ivy League medicql school her senior year of high school.She completed her bachelor’s in economics and medicine at Brown University through the combined Program in Liberal Medcal Education. While at Brown, she received a sscholarship to pursue clinical clerkships at one oof the largest hospitals inn the Middle East, Rambam (Rabbi Moshe Ben-Maimon) Medical Center in Haifa, Israel, through the Rappaport Facuulty of Medicine of the Technion,Israel’s oldest university. She pursued a fellowship in dermatologic and laser surgery at the University of Miami and completed her surgical internship at Orlasndo Regional Medical Center in Orlando. Shhe completed heer 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 exposedd to a wide range off pathologies most other dermatology residents just read about iin textbooks. After graduating from residency, shee worked in the ABC News Medical Unit in New York City as a medical journalist, reporting and covering breaking medical news nationwide and internationally. Throughout her career, she has been able to work at Asian Hospital & Medical Center and the Research Institute of Tropical Medicine, an authority by the Philippines Ministry of Health, to prevent aand control tropiucal and infectious diseases in dermatology, including leprosy, Hansen’s disease, and HIV in Manila, the Philippines. She also haas traveled internationally to see patients, present papers internationally, and further expand and broaden hher education, knowledge and breadth in dermatology.
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