Biography
Dr. Karen Zapata

The skin is an intelligent, interactive and so demonstrative layer, this living defense barrier that allows us to feel a warm embrace and that keeps memories so wisely. The role of barrier of exchange, defense, temperature regulation and perception of sensations that the skin plays cannot go unnoticed

Completed her studies as a Doctor of Medicine at the University of Panama.

Finished her Specialization in Dermatology and Dermatological Surgery at the Universidad Del Valle in Cali, Colombia.

Later she completed a training stay in the Medical-Surgical Dermatology service, at the Sant Pau Hospital in Barcelona.

Training as a Specialist and Master in Higher Education

Master in Cosmetic Dermatology at the University of Alcalá, Madrid Spain.

Certificate in Clinical Dermatology at the Ibero-American College of Dermatology.

Continuous updating in courses, trainings, certificates and university masters in areas such as Clinical Dermatology, Dermoscopy, Cosmetic Dermatology and Light Energies.

Began dermatological care in 2011 in the city of David, Chiriquí

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Dr. Karen Zapata

Dermatology Cosmetic Dermatology, Clinical Dermatology

General

A comprehensive dermatological clinic with care services in Clinical Dermatology, Dermatoscopy and skin cancer prevention, Cosmetic and Laser Dermatology. Our assessment is personalized, detailed, up-to-date, ethical, professional, and cutting-edge.

Human skin

In this context we could say that the interest in the most extensive and visible organ dates back to the period before Christ. Since then there was talk of diseases such as scabies, a parasitic condition very common in our times or the use of baths for skin care by Cleopatra. The branch of medicine known as Dermatology has as its field of study the diseases of the skin, hair and nails and begins to be investigated in greater depth around the seventeenth century, stage in which systems of classification and dermatological atlases arise.

Today

The study and evaluation of the dermatologist is a great challenge. The skin can manifest conditions of other areas of our body from inflammatory, infectious, autoimmune, metabolic and tumor conditions. In addition, we must contemplate the changing concept and the constant need to want to improve our image. Based on our scientific, academic, and structured training of the skin we cover preventive care for healthy, natural and preserved skin despite the passage of time.

Our commitment as dermatologists is very broad since external aggressions such as pollution, ultraviolet radiation, visible light, and infrared rays are challenges that our biological system must face and adapt to.

In addition to the incorporation of unhealthy eating habits, the interaction with multiple cosmetic products from those we use for oral hygiene to those applied to us for hair care expose our skin to multiple external agents. If we observe in our skin the presence of changes in spots or moles, outbreaks of rapid evolution, we have alterations of our defenses or after the use of a drug we notice changes in the skin, we must be evaluated by a specialist in dermatology promptly.