DermUpdate2024

Course dates
Thursday, September 26, 2024 - Saturday, September 28, 2024 (LIVE STREAM ONLY)

Course description
This course presents a broad overview of many areas of dermatopathology, including topics of special sites. It is led by Harvard Medical School faculty as well as selected guests with known expertise. With many gaps in patient satisfaction and several unique challenges to physicians in the field of dermatopathology, this course is designed to update both academic and practicing physicians with new advances, especially in melanocytic tumors, adnexal tumors, cutaneous soft tissue tumors, other cutaneous tumors, and inflammatory dermatoses. This program also aims to provide aids in diagnosis based on conventional morphologic analysis as well as updates on new techniques, such as immunohistochemistry and molecular pathology. This course features conventional didactic lectures with frequent discussion periods and case-based sessions with faculty. There will be a panel discussion with experts in the field discussing some of their most challenging and interesting cases.

Ruth K. Foreman, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor in Pathology, Harvard Medical School

Lyn M. Duncan, MD

Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School

George F. Murphy, MD

Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School

Steven R. Tahan, MD

Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School

Mai P. Hoang, MD

Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School

Ashley Ward, MD

Instructor in Pathology, Harvard Medical School

8:00 - 8:15 AM - Welcome and Introduction

8:15 - 9:15 AM - Predictive Dermatopathology: Toward more precise assessment of progression risk and therapeutic efficacy in human melanoma
Speaker: George F. Murphy, MD


9:15 - 9:30 AM - Break

9:10 AM - 10:10 AM - Tools of the Trade: WHO Blue books & ADSP AUC app
Speaker: Lyn Duncan, MD


10:10 AM - 10:30 AM - Break

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM - Expert Panel
Speakers: Alexander Lazar, MD, PhD, George F. Murphy, MD, Steven Tahan, MD, Pedram Gerami, MD


12:30 PM - 2:00 PM - Break

2:00 PM - 2:50 PM - Squamous Penile Tumors
Speaker: Kristine M. Cornejo, MD


2:50 PM - 3:10 PM - Break

3:10 PM - 4:00 PM - Quality and Safety for Dermatopathology
Speaker: Mia DeSimone, MD, MPH


4:00 PM - 4:15 PM - Break

4:15 PM - 5:00 PM - Direct Immunofluorescence and Update on Immunobullous Disease
Speaker: Julie Reimann, MD, PhD

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM - Interactive Session on Adnexal Tumors
Speaker: Mai Hoang, MD


9:00 AM - 9:10 AM - Break

9:10 AM - 10:00 AM - WHO Update on Cutaneous Lymphomas
Speaker: Judith Ferry, MD


10:00 AM - 10:20 AM - Break

10:20 AM - 11:05 AM - Histiocytic/Blastic Neoplasms
Speaker: Elizabeth Morgan, MD


11:05 AM - 11:15 AM - Break

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM - Melanocytic Update
Speaker: Pedram Gerami, MD


12:15 PM - 1:00 PM - Break

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - WHO Updates on Soft Tissue Tumors
Speaker: Alexander Lazar, MD, PhD


2:00 PM - 2:10 PM - Break

2:10 PM - 3:00 PM - Cutaneous Fibrosing Disorders
Speaker: Rosalynn Nazarian, MD


3:00 PM - 3:30 PM - Break

3:30 PM - 4:20 PM - Pediatric Soft Tissue Pathology
Speaker: Alyaa Al-Ibraheemi, MD


4:20 PM - 4:30 PM - Break

4:30 PM - 5:20 PM - Head and Neck Pathology for Dermatopathologists
Speaker: Peter Sadow, MD, PhD

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM - The Language of Dermatopathology Reports: Writing for Patients as Well
Speaker: George F. Murphy, MD


9:00 AM - 9:15 AM - Break

9:15 AM - 10:00 AM - Updates on Adnexal Tumors
Speaker: Eleanor Russell-Goldman, MD, PhD


10:00 AM - 10:20 AM - Break

10:20 AM - 11:05 AM - Immunohistochemistry for Dermatopathologists
Speaker: Ashley Ward, MD


11:05 AM - 11:15 AM - Break

11:15 AM - 12:10 PM - Interesting and Challenging Cutaneous Lesions – Incorporating molecular signatures into your diagnosis
Speaker: Christine G. Lian, MD


12:10 PM - 1:00 PM - Break

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - Perspectives Gleaned from Medical Malpractice Cases in Dermatopathology: Lessons on how to avoid liability claims
Speaker: Steven Tahan, MD


2:00 PM - 2:10 PM - Break

2:10 PM - 3:10 PM - Monkeypox: Histopathology and Ancillary Testing
Speaker: Alvaro Laga Canales, MD, MSc


3:10 PM - 3:40 PM - Break

3:40 PM - 4:30 PM - WHO Update on Eye Pathology
Speaker: Anna Stagner, MD


4:30 PM - 4:40 PM - Break

4:40 PM - 5:30 PM - Epidermal Tumors
Speaker: Ruth Foreman, MD, PhD