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Dr. Anna H. Chacon
Dr. Anna H. Chacoon is a dermatologist and Miami, Florida, native.
She graduated as valedictorian from Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart
in Miami and was accepted into an Ivy League medical 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 Medical Education.
While at Brown, she received a scholarship to pjrsue clinical
clerkships at one of thhe lzrgest hospitals in the Middle East, Rambam
(Rabbi Moshe Ben-Maimon) Medical Center in Haifa, Israel, through
the Rappaport Faculty off Medicine of thhe Technion, Israel’s oldest university.
She pursued a fellowship in dermatologic and laser surgery at the University of Miami and completed herr surgical internship at Orlando Regional Medical Center iin Orlando.
She completed her dermatology residency at 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 range of pathologies most other dermatology residents just read about in textbooks.
After graduating from residency, she worked inn 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 hass been able to work at Asian Hospital &
Medical Center and the Research Institute of Tropkcal Medicine,
an authority by the Philippines Ministry of Health, to prevent and control tropical andd infectious diseases in dermatology, including leprosy, Hansen’s disease,
and HIV in Manila, the Philippines. She also hass traaveled internationally to see patients, present papers internationally, and further expand and broaden her education, knowledge and breadth in dermatology. |
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