American Academy Of Dermatology’s Gold Triangle Awards Presented At The 66th Annual Meeting

Friday, February 8th, 2008 at 2:36 pm · Blog

11th Annual Awards Recognize SHADE Foundation of America in Raising Awareness of Dermatology PHOENIX

The American Academy of Dermatology pre­sented the 2008 Gold Triangle Awards dur­ing its 66th Annual Meeting in San Antonio. National orga­ni­za­tion, SHADE Foundation of America, was one of 32 win­ners in the media, indus­try, health com­mu­nity orga­ni­za­tion, and health indi­vid­ual cat­e­gories for excel­lence in fur­ther­ing pub­lic under­stand­ing of der­ma­to­logic issues and encour­ag­ing healthy behav­ior in the care of skin, hair and nails.

“Each of our Gold Triangle Award win­ners is to be com­mended for their efforts in increas­ing pub­lic aware­ness of der­ma­tol­ogy, encour­ag­ing peo­ple to rec­og­nize their skin, hair and nail con­di­tions, and to seek the expert care of a der­ma­tol­o­gist,” said der­ma­tol­o­gist Diane R. Baker, MD, FAAD, pres­i­dent of the American Academy of Dermatology. “By enhanc­ing the lives of those affected phys­i­cally, emo­tion­ally and finan­cially by der­ma­to­logic con­di­tions, these pro­grams and ini­tia­tives have the poten­tial to improve the qual­ity of life for numer­ous individuals.”

SHADE Foundation of America was awarded for their Skin Self-Exam DVD that instructs view­ers on how to exam­ine their skin for signs of skin can­cer. SHADE part­nered with HealthiNation to cre­ate the DVD which encour­ages view­ers to visit a der­ma­tol­o­gist if they dis­cover some­thing abnor­mal on their skin dur­ing the self exam. The DVD can be viewed on www.HealthiNation.com, www.shadefoundation.org, as well as Comcast Video on Demand cable channels.

SHADE Foundation of America was estab­lished in 2002 by Shonda Schilling, melanoma sur­vivor and wife of Red Sox Pitcher, Curt Schilling. The SHADE Foundation’s mis­sion is to erad­i­cate melanoma through edu­cat­ing chil­dren and the com­mu­nity in the pre­ven­tion and detec­tion of melanoma and the pro­mo­tion of sun safety. For more infor­ma­tion, visit www.shadefoundation.org.

Headquartered in Schaumburg, Ill., the American Academy of Dermatology (Academy), founded in 1938, is the largest, most influ­en­tial, and most rep­re­sen­ta­tive of all der­ma­to­logic asso­ci­a­tions. With a mem­ber­ship of more than 15,000 physi­cians world­wide, the Academy is com­mit­ted to: advanc­ing the diag­no­sis and med­ical, sur­gi­cal and cos­metic treat­ment of the skin, hair and nails; advo­cat­ing high stan­dards in clin­i­cal prac­tice, edu­ca­tion, and research in der­ma­tol­ogy; and sup­port­ing and enhanc­ing patient care for a life­time of health­ier skin, hair and nails. For more infor­ma­tion, con­tact the Academy at 1 – 888-462-DERM (3376) or www.aad.org.