More Universities Recognized for Adopting Sun Protection Protocols

The National Council on Skin Cancer Prevention continues to recognize university campuses with its “Skin Smart Campus” designation, earned by several more schools in December 2024, according to the Council’s website.

The most recent honorees include George Washington University (GWU), Washington, DC; Miami Dade College West Campus, Miami; Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, California; Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, Huntington, West Virginia; the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Greenville, South Carolina; Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; and the University of California, Los Angeles.

The Indoor Tan-Free Skin Smart Campus initiative was developed by the National Council on Skin Cancer Prevention in the wake of the Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent Skin Cancer, issued in 2014.

 

At GWU, the initiative was introduced by Sarah Millan, MD, a former GWU medical student and current second-year dermatology resident at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC, Nikkia Zarabian, a third-year medical student at GWU, said in an interview.

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