Teledermatology Serving Georgia

The goal of this program is to reduce health disparities and inequities in skin cancer screening for people living in rural, underserved, or underpopulated regions of the State of Georgia through the following approaches:

• Training the next generation of primary care medical providers (e.g., Family Medicine residents and medical students) in remote diagnosis (telemedicine/teledermatology) of skin lesions by partnering them with expert physicians in our Department of Dermatology.
• Providing remote diagnosis (telemedicine/teledermatology) of skin lesions by partnering primary care providers at clinics in rural Georgia with expert physicians within our Department of Dermatology.
• Providing dermatologic and cancer prevention education to healthcare providers and the lay public using distance learning technology.

These approaches of access to expert dermatologic assessment of suspicious skin lesions and patient and primary healthcare provider education will improve the health of Georgians living in rural and urban underserved areas, thus helping to fulfill the mission of the Georgia Cancer Center.