UTMB Dermatology received notification this month that Beiersdorf, the initial sponsor of UTMB’s History of Dermatology 5 year grant, will not renew the grant, citing “…budget constraints in 2013...” Beiersdorf’s History of Dermatology Award had become an annual graduation award for the UTMB medical student taking UTMB’s History of Dermatology Elective (DERU-4008) and submitting the best historical essay. As the result of this non-renewal, UTMB Dermatology is currently seeking another sponsor with an interest in the history of dermatology for this prestigious annual graduation award.
Previous UTMB student Beiersdorf Award winners were:
2008: Heather Harris ("St. Anthony's Fire: A Historical Focus on Gangrenous Ergotism")
2009: Elizabeth Williford ("Leprosy: Scourge of the Past and Present")
2010: Marisol Albuerne ("Morgellons Disorder: A Syndrome or a Delusion")
2011: Brett Blakeway {“On degrees of lousiness: Medicine’s response to human body louse (pediculus humanus corporis) infestation during the First World War”}
2012: Lauren Douglas (“African Americans with Vitiligo: A Cause for a Race Revolution in 18th and 19th Century America”)