Clinical Cases in Integrative Dermatology

Clinical cases are a key component in modern medical education, assisting the trainee or recertifying clinician to work through unusual cases using best practice techniques. Integrative Dermatology is an important discipline in this regard since it is a highly visual subject requiring the reader to describe often very subtle differences in the presentation of patients and define accurately the diagnostic and management criteria to base their clinical decision-making on. In 1992 the National Institutes of Health established the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (now also called Integrative Medicine), which has led to increased evidence-based research. The objective of this book is to provide readers with an overview of traditional and complementary treatment options for the most common skin problems encountered in clinical practice.

Rob Norman is the series editor and co-author of the first book in the series, Clinical Cases in Geriatric Dermatology. He helped formulate the dermatology program for the Integrative Medicine fellows at the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine and provided a comprehensive lecture in Integrative Dermatology for the fellowship program. Reena Rupani is a dermatologist and fellow in the program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona School of Medicine; she has lectured in the field of Integrative Dermatology at the American Academy of Dermatology.