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This course explores the roles nutrition, supplements and the microbiome play in acne, rosacea, and hidradenitis suppurativa.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe basics of the gut microbiome and the gut-skin connection
- Identify how the gut microbiome and nutrition can affect skin health through the microbiome shift in acne and evidence for probiotics, and the microbiome shift in rosacea and association with SIBO
- Review the role of oral probiotics, prebiotics, and postbiotics in skin disease
- Discuss the role diet plays in acne and rosacea and hidradenitis suppurativa
Faculty
Dr. Raja Sivamani is a board-certified dermatologist and practices as an integrative dermatologist at Pacific Skin Institute. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Clinical Dermatology at the University of California, Davis and Director of Clinical Research and the Clinical Trials Unit.He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the California State University, Sacramento and an Associate Professor of Dermatology at California Northstate University, College of Medicine.He engages in clinical practice as well as both clinical and translational research that integrates bioengineering, nutrition, cosmetics, and skin biology. With training in both Allopathic and Ayurvedic medicine, he takes an integrative approach to his patients and in his research.He has published over 100 peer-reviewed research manuscripts, 10 textbook chapters, and a textbook entitled Cosmeceuticals and Active Cosmetics, 3rd Edition with a passion for expanding the evidence and boundaries of integrative medicine for skin care.
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