Dermatopathology Update 2025
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, 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
- Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
- Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
- Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
- Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
- Instructor in Pathology, Harvard Medical School
8:00 AM - 8:15 AM - Welcome and Introduction
8:15 AM - 9:15 AM - Predictive Dermatopathology: Toward More Precise Assessment of Progression Risk and Therapeutic Efficacy in Human Melanoma
Speaker: George F. Murphy, MD
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9:15 AM - 9:30 AM - Break
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM - Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma (CTCL) and Mimics
Speaker: Lyn Duncan, MD
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10:30 AM - 11:00 AM - Break
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM - Cutaneous B-Cell Neoplasms
Speaker: Judith Ferry, MD
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12:00 PM - 1:00 PM - Break
1:00 PM - 1:50 PM - Cutaneous Fibrosing Disorders
Speaker: Rosalynn Nazarian, MD
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1:50 PM - 2:10 PM - Break
2:10 PM - 3:00 PM - An Approach to Quality and Safety in Dermatopathology: Quality Improvement and Workflow Redesign
Speaker: Mia DeSimone, MD, MPH
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3:00 PM - 3:15 PM - Break
3:15 PM - 5:15 PM - Expert Panel
Speakers: Lyn Duncan, MD; Mai Hoang, MD; George F. Murphy, MD; Steven Tahan, MD; Julia Lehman, MD
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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
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9:10 AM - 9:20 AM - Break
9:20 AM - 10:20 AM - Pediatric Dermatopathology
Speaker: Birgitta Schmidt, MD
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10:20 AM - 10:30 AM - Break
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM - New Diagnostic Criteria for Oral Leukoplakias
Speaker: Sook-Bin Woo, DMD
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11:30 AM - 12:30 PM - Break
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM - Practical Pearls in Autoimmune Connective Tissue Diseases
Speaker: Julia Lehman, MD
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1:30 PM - 1:45 PM - Break
1:45 PM - 2:45 PM - Challenging Cases of Immunobullous Diseases
Speaker: Julia Lehman, MD
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2:45 PM - 3:00 PM - Break
3:00 PM - 3:50 PM - Inflammatory Vulvar Lesions
Speaker: Ashley Ward, MD
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3:50 PM - 4:05 PM - Break
4:05 PM - 5:05 PM - HPV-Negative Squamous Vulvar Lesions
Speaker: Jaclyn Watkins, MD
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8:00 AM - 8:10 AM - Welcome
8:10 AM - 9:00 AM - Updates in Adnexal Neoplasms
Speaker: Eleanor Russell-Goldman, MD, PhD
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9:00 AM - 9:15 AM - Break
9:15 AM - 10:10 AM - Cutaneous Mesenchymal Tumors: Morphology and Molecular Correlates
Speaker: Ivan Chebib, MD
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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
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11:10 AM - 11:20 AM - Break
11:20 AM - 12:10 PM - Practical Approach to Difficult Melanocytic Tumors
Speaker: Christine G. Lian, MD
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12:10 PM - 1:05 PM - Break
1:05 PM - 2:00 PM - Squamous Penile Lesions
Speaker: Kristine Cornejo, MD
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2:00 PM - 2:10 PM - Break
2:10 PM - 3:00 PM - Eye Pathology of Pigmented Lesions
Speaker: Anna Stagner, MD
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3:00 PM - 3:15 PM - Break
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM - ALK+ Cutaneous Neoplasms
Speaker: Ruth Foreman, MD, PhD
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