Dr. Esther Freeman started learning about outbreaks around the kitchen table! As a trained epidemiologist and dermatologist, she has become an "inadvertent" outbreak dermatologist during the COVID-19 pandemic. She shares her experience with emotions across cultures, the value of hard work in dermatology (and life), and a story about the refrigerator. Dr. Esther Freeman, MD PhD DTM&H is Associate Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School. She is a board-certified dermatologist. She attended Dartmouth College and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine before receiving her MD from Harvard Medical School, where she also did her dermatology residency. She received her Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the Gorgas Memorial Institute in Peru. Her research looks at HIV-associated malignancies like Kaposi sarcoma and consults for the World Health Organization.