Physician Investigator (Cl) Dermatology, Mass General Research Institute

Associate Professor of Dermatology Harvard Medical School

Assistant In Dermatology Massachusetts General Hospital

MD 2009

disease outbreaks; herpes genitalis; herpes simplex virus vaccines; herpesvirus 2, human; hiv infections; sarcoma, kaposi Dr. Esther Freeman M.D. Ph.D. is a dermatologist and epidemiologist, specializing in global health dermatology. She has worked to improve healthcare, especially those affectedby HIV, in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and southeast Asia since 2003.

She has collaborated with the World Health Organization since 2011, to establish guidelines for the treatment of HIV-associated skin conditions in the developing world.

She has won the American Academy of Dermatology's Member Making a Difference Award, as well as the most highly cited author in the area of epidemiology in AIDS in 2009.

Her current work centers around Kaposi's sarcoma, a potentially deadly tumor associated with HIV that first appears on the skin.

Her work has been supported by the National Institute of Health (NIH), the American Skin Association, the Harvard Center for AIDS Research, and the Medical Dermatology Society.Please also see her biography.