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

8:00 AM - 8:10 AM - Welcome

8:10 AM - 9:10 AM - New Insights into Lesions We Thought We Knew
Speaker: Steven R. Tahan, MD
Recording

9:10 AM - 9:20 AM - Break

9:20 AM - 10:20 AM - Pediatric Dermatopathology
Speaker: Birgitta Schmidt, MD
Recording

10:20 AM - 10:30 AM - Break

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM - New Diagnostic Criteria for Oral Leukoplakias
Speaker: Sook-Bin Woo, DMD
Recording

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM - Break

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM - Practical Pearls in Autoimmune Connective Tissue Diseases
Speaker: Julia Lehman, MD
Recording

1:30 PM - 1:45 PM - Break

1:45 PM - 2:45 PM - Challenging Cases of Immunobullous Diseases
Speaker: Julia Lehman, MD
Recording

2:45 PM - 3:00 PM - Break

3:00 PM - 3:50 PM - Inflammatory Vulvar Lesions
Speaker: Ashley Ward, MD
Recording

3:50 PM - 4:05 PM - Break

4:05 PM - 5:05 PM - HPV-Negative Squamous Vulvar Lesions
Speaker: Jaclyn Watkins, MD
Recording

8:00 AM - 8:10 AM - Welcome

8:10 AM - 9:00 AM - Updates in Adnexal Neoplasms
Speaker: Eleanor Russell-Goldman, MD, PhD
Recording

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM - Break

9:15 AM - 10:10 AM - Cutaneous Mesenchymal Tumors: Morphology and Molecular Correlates
Speaker: Ivan Chebib, MD
Recording

10:10 AM - 10:20 AM - Break

10:20 AM - 11:10 AM - Pearls and Pitfalls in the Diagnosis of Cutaneous Mycobacterial Infections
Speaker: Alvaro Laga Canales, MD, MSc
Recording

11:10 AM - 11:20 AM - Break

11:20 AM - 12:10 PM - Practical Approach to Difficult Melanocytic Tumors
Speaker: Christine G. Lian, MD
Recording

12:10 PM - 1:05 PM - Break

1:05 PM - 2:00 PM - Squamous Penile Lesions
Speaker: Kristine Cornejo, MD
Recording

2:00 PM - 2:10 PM - Break

2:10 PM - 3:00 PM - Eye Pathology of Pigmented Lesions
Speaker: Anna Stagner, MD
Recording

3:00 PM - 3:15 PM - Break

3:15 PM - 4:00 PM - ALK+ Cutaneous Neoplasms
Speaker: Ruth Foreman, MD, PhD
Recording