Kingston native brings personal experience with vitiligo into medical training

Shahnawaz Towheed, a Kingston native, has spent much of medical school working to better understand a condition he has lived with since childhood.Now a final-year medical student at McMaster University, Towheed is applying to dermatology residency programs and focusing more of his time on research that includes the perspectives of people living with vitiligo.When the Whig spoke with him in 2024, Towheed was a first-year medical student and a co-founder of Vitiligo Voices Canada, an advocacy and