Your Diagnosis Manual Doesn't Include My Skin

This event is organised by Trianon Scientific Communication and hosted by The Nine.

See what dermatologists often miss on darker skin tones and get your own questions answered, in this eye-opening roundtable.

A roundtable with two dermatology specialists examining what happens when medical training treats the global minority as the universal standard.

Medical schools teach dermatologists to recognize skin conditions. Rashes. Melanomas. Inflammatory diseases. The textbooks show examples. The training uses photographs. Doctors learn pattern recognition.

The patterns in those textbooks represent 12% of the global population. White skin became the default. Everything else became "atypical presentation."

This creates diagnostic gaps. A melanoma on Black skin looks different than the photographs in training materials. Inflammatory conditions present differently. Dermatologists trained on white skin miss what they weren't taught to see.

The bias isn't intentional. The exclusion was structural. Training materials reflected who was included in research. Research reflected who had access to medical institutions. Access reflected historical exclusion patterns.

Our two specialists will show:

• How skin conditions present across different melanin levels
• Why current diagnostic criteria miss or delay diagnoses for Black patients
• What retraining requires when your baseline was wrong
• How institutional bias compounds clinical gaps

This is also your chance to get answers from specialists trained beyond standard curricula.

Bring your dermatology questions. Bring your diagnostic frustrations. Bring the skin concerns you've had dismissed or misdiagnosed. Our MDs will provide medical guidance informed by expertise most dermatologists didn't receive in training.

This is an open conversation. Therefore, your clinical questions are welcome.

At the end, you’ll have an opportunity to network from 21h-22h.