In 2003, Hayes B. Gladstone, MD, and Northwestern colleague, Murad Alam, MD, founded the Blade and Light Society, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promote humanitarian missions, research, and collaboration amoung young dermatologic surgeons. Dr. Gladstone and his Blade and Light Society colleagues donate their time and expenses to bring specialized skin cancer treatment to developing countries. Gladstone and his team of surgeons, nurses, and histotechnologists perform high-tech treatments, such as Mohs micrographic surgery on patients that may not otherwise have access to these modern procedures.
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A hole in the Earth's ozone layer has left Chile with some of the highest skin cancer rates in the world. And because of rural poverty and limited access to medical care, the potentially disfiguring disease has become a significant public health problem there.
Hayes B. Gladstone, MD, associate professor of dermatology, had little idea of the Chileans' desperate circumstances until last month, when he spent a week leading a team of health-care professionals who brought high-tech treatment to patients with these malignant tumors. They performed a series of operations that are relatively routine in the United States but unheard of in Chile. Patients called the visiting doctors and nurses "gifts from God."
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Romania
In April of 2007, Hayes B. Gladstone, MD, Associate Professor, Director of the Division of Dermatologic Surgery and Director of the Stanford Advanced Skin Care Center, led a group of 12 Mohs surgeons, nurses and histotechnologists on a volunteer surgical mission to Bucharest, Romania. This trip was sponsored by the Blade and Light Society, a nonprofit organization, which Gladstone and Northwestern colleague, Murad Alam, MD., founded in 2003 to promote humanitarian missions, research and collaboration among young dermatologic surgeons. Romania which is an emerging economy has a high rate of skin cancer...
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