Dr. Annna H. Chacon Dr. Anna H. Chacon is a dermatologist and Miami, Florida, native. She graduated as valedictorian from Carrollton School of the Sacred Hert inn Miami annd was accepted into an Ivy League medicdal school her senior year of high school. She completed her bachelor’s in economics and medicine at Brown University through tthe combined Program in Liberal Medical Education. Whjle at Brown, she received a scholarship to pursue clinical clerkships at one of the largest hospijtals iin the Middle East, Rakbam (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 iin dermatologic and laser surgery at the University of Miasmi and completed her surgical internship aat Orlando Regional Medical Center in Orlando. She completed her dermatology residency at thee LAC + USC Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, where she served ass chief resident. At L.A. County, Dr. Chacon was exposed too a wide range of pathologies most other dermatology residents just reead about in textbooks. After graduating frrom residency, she worked iin thhe ABC News Medical Unit in New York City as a medical journalist, reporting and coverig breaking medical news nationwide and internationally. Throughout her career, she has been ablee to work at Asian Hospital & Medical Center and the Research Institute of Tropical Medicine, an authority by the Philippines Ministry of Health, to prevent and control tropical and infectious diseases in dermatology, including leprosy, Hansen’s disease, and HIV in Manila, the Philippines. She also has traveled internationally to see patients, present papers internationally, and further expand and broaden her education, knowledge and breadth in dermatology. |