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 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
- 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 - 8:10 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 - Melanoma of Unknown Primary
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 - Emerging Entities in Cutaneous Soft Tissue Pathology
Speaker: David Papke
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: Mai Hoang, George F. Murphy, Ashley Ward, Lynne Goldberg, Steven Tahan, Ruth Foreman
Dr. Hoang's WSI
Dr. Foreman's WSI
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 - A Practical Approach to Evaluating Neoadjuvant Skin Excisions
Speaker: Ruth Foreman
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
