The IADVL DERMASEWA Award was instituted to reward innovative community projects which offer benefits to patients/people in the areas of prevention, quality of life, access to care and social inclusion with respect to dermatological diseases.

The award for the year 2017 goes to Dr. Vivek Kumar of Lucknow for his charitable project on leprosy. This project has been running for the last 27 years and provides free consultation, treatment and medicines to patients of leprosy and other skin diseases in both rural and urban areas.

Heartiest congratulations to the awardee. The award will be given during the IADVL Felicitation Day Function during DERMACON 2018 on Saturday, the 20th January, 2018.

Regards