Skin to SummitRural Dermatology Education Outreach Series
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Now in production  ·  Filmed in Alaska

Skin to Summit

Know your skin. Learn the landscape of treatment.

A plain-language dermatology education series for patients and the clinicians who care for them, filmed across Alaska's glaciers, tundra, and wild coast. Understand your condition, see the treatment options as they stand today, and find a little of home in every story.

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The distance

In Alaska, the nearest dermatologist can be a thousand miles away.

Across much of the state there is no skin specialist for hundreds of miles, and reaching one can mean a small plane, a ferry, and days away from home. Distance is only part of it. The harder gap is awareness, knowing what a condition is, that it has a name, and that real treatments exist. Skin to Summit is built to close that gap. Clear, plain-language episodes that help patients understand their own skin and help rural clinicians recognize and talk through what they see, with the current treatment landscape laid out fairly and without the jargon.

The first season

Eight stories, each named for the land that tells it.

Every episode draws its name and its lesson from Alaska itself. Here is a first glimpse of what is coming.

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Glacier

The right foundation, built to last.

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Wind

Relentless.

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Tundra

Dormant, not gone.

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Wildfire

It keeps coming back, until it does not.

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Volcano

What you see is only the surface.

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Waterways

Carved by the daily current.

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Fault Line

Years before it has a name.

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Snowfield

Beneath the white, the color waits.

More episodes, and the stories behind them, revealed as we premiere.

The Aurora Program

Awareness is the first step. Access is the next.

Skin to Summit teaches. The Aurora Program connects. It is the hub-and-spoke network being built to carry that knowledge into care, linking rural clinics and the communities they serve to specialist dermatology through teledermatology. Education gives patients and clinicians the words for what they are seeing. The Aurora Program gives them somewhere to go next.

Learn

Skin to Summit episodes help patients and rural clinicians recognize conditions and understand the options.

Connect

The spokes, local clinics across Alaska, link to the hub for specialist input without the long journey out.

Care

Teledermatology brings the consult to the community, so distance is no longer the deciding factor.

A dedicated home for the Aurora Program is on the way. For now, it begins with awareness.

The expedition begins

Be there when the first light breaks.

Production is underway and the first episodes are taking shape. Leave your email and we will tell you the moment Skin to Summit goes live.