DermUpdate2025

Course Dates
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - Friday, September 26, 2025 (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 in cutaneous tumors, including melanocytic tumors, adnexal tumors, cutaneous soft tissue tumors, as well as inflammatory dermatoses. This year we will be discussing topics based on "Challenges for the Current and Future Practice of Dermatopathology.” This program 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 discussion periods. One half-day of the program will be focused on a case-based session with select faculty. Digital slides and questions pertaining to the cases will be available for early viewing and review.

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 AM - 8:10 AM - Welcome and Introduction

8:10 AM - 8:40 AM - Challenges in Dermatopathology; An Overview
Speaker: George F. Murphy

8:40 AM - 8:50 AM - Break

8:50 AM - 9:20 AM - Update in the Classification and Terminology of Melanocytic Tumors
Speaker: Lyn Duncan

9:20 AM - 9:30 AM - Break

9:30 AM - 10:25 AM - Work-up of Melanocytic Lesions: From Routine to Challenging
Speaker: Christine G. Lian

10:25 AM - 10:45 AM - Break

10:45 AM - 11:15 AM - Pediatric Dermatopathology: Common and Not So Common Cases
Speaker: Birgitta Schmidt

11:15 AM - 11:25 AM - Break

11:25 AM - 12:20 PM - A Practical Approach to Evaluating Neoadjuvant Skin Excisions
Speaker: Ruth Foreman

12:20 PM - 1:20 PM - Break

1:20 PM - 1:50 PM - Melanocytic Mimics of Melanoma: Diagnoses Not To Miss
Speaker: John Hanna

1:50 PM - 2:00 PM - Break

2:00 PM - 2:55 PM - Histopathology of Alopecia Made Easy
Speaker: Lynne Goldberg

2:55 PM - 3:15 PM - Break

3:15 PM - 5:15 PM - Interesting Case Discussion
Speakers: Lyn Duncan; Mai Hoang, George F. Murphy, Ashley Ward, Lynne Goldberg, Steven Tahan, Ruth Foreman

8:30 AM - 8:35 AM - Welcome and Introduction

8:35 AM - 9:35 AM - Challenges in Inflammatory Skin Diseases
Speaker: George F. Murphy

9:35 AM - 9:55 AM - Break

9:55 AM - 10:50 AM - Updates in Cutaneous Vasculitis
Speaker: Rosalynn Nazarian

10:50 AM - 11:05 AM - Break

11:05 AM - 12:00 PM - Challenges of the Small Skin Biopsy
Speaker: Julie Reimann

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM - Break

1:00 PM - 1:55 PM - Lessons Learned from Medical Liability: Applications to Daily Practice
Speaker: Steven Tahan

1:55 PM - 2:05 PM - Break

2:05 PM - 3:00 PM - Digital Pathology Transition: Lessons Learned and Future directions
Speaker: Dimitra Pouli

3:00 PM - 3:20 PM - Break

3:20 PM - 4:15 PM - Quality and Safety Challenges in an Academic Laboratory Setting
Speaker: Mia DeSimone

4:15 PM - 4:25 PM - Break

4:25 PM - 5:20 PM - Immunohistochemistry for Dermatopathologists
Speaker: Ashley Ward

8:30 AM - 8:35 AM - Welcome and Introduction

8:35 AM - 9:30 AM - Cutaneous Adnexal Tumors: A Case-based Approach
Speaker: Mai Hoang

9:30 AM - 9:40 AM - Break

9:40 AM - 10:35 AM - Update on Cutaneous Adnexal Tumors
Speaker: Eleanor Russell-Goldman

10:35 AM - 10:50 AM - Break

10:50 AM - 11:45 AM - Challenges in Diagnosis, Nomenclature, and Nosology of Soft Tissue Tumors of the Skin
Speaker: Ivan Chebib

11:45 AM - 12:45 PM - Break

12:45 PM - 1:40 PM - Emerging Entities in Cutaneous Soft Tissue Pathology
Speaker: David Papke

1:40 PM - 1:50 PM - Break

1:50 PM - 2:25 PM - Laboratory Billing and Reimbursements: New Challenges in the Post-COVID Era
Speaker: Paul VanderLaan

2:25 PM - 2:40 PM - Break

2:40 PM - 3:35 PM - Intersection of Dermatopathology and Ophthalmologic Pathology
Speaker: Anna Stagner

3:35 PM - 3:50 PM - Break

3:50 PM - 4:25 PM - Panniculitis: Pearls and Pitfalls
Speaker: Josh Goldsmith

4:25 PM - 4:30 PM - Closing Remarks