May was Melanoma Awareness Month and what better way to restart our Free Skin Cancer Screenings for our community. We held the first free screening for 2022-2023 at the UNMH Dermatology Clinic, seeing over 200 patients, 71 of whom had precancerous lesions or suspicious lesions for skin cancer. THANK YOU to all who volunteered for this event, which is a great opportunity for our students, and also to the Ryan F. Daniell Fund and the Shannon Shaw Memorial Fund which support this important work.
The next screening will be in Gallup on August 6th, followed by the Southeast region and Northern NM. Please contact Dr. John Durkin if you would like to volunteer in any capacity and we welcome your donations to the Daniell Fund to help grow this program sustainably
Questo fondo è stato creato per onorare l'eredità di Ryan F. Daniell, che ci ha lasciato troppo presto a causa del melanoma. Era la speranza di Ryan che la sua lotta con la malattia avrebbe portato a una maggiore consapevolezza, diagnosi precoce e cure accessibili per tutti i nuovi messicani. La sua famiglia ha istituito questo fondo a suo nome e accoglie con favore la tua collaborazione.