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34th Annual Meeting
July 9 - 12, 2008
Snowbird Ski & Summer Resort
Snowbird, UT

COURSE DIRECTORS

Tor Shwayder, MD

Director, Pediatric Dermatology
Henry Ford Hospital
Detroit, MI

Sheryll Vanderhooft, MD
Associate Professor of Dermatology & Adjunct Associate Professor of Pediatrics University of Utah School of Medicine
Salt Lake City, UT

Mark Herron, MD
Herron Dermatology
Montgomery, AL

MEETING PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 2008

3:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Registration

4:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Executive Board Meeting

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Fellow and Young Leaders in Peds Derm Reception
(pre-registration required)

7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Welcome Reception


THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2008

6:45 – 7:45 am
Breakfast

7:00 – 2:00 pm 
Registration

7:45 – 7:55 am                 
Introduction and Welcome                                          
Tor Shwayder, MD, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI

7:55 – 8:05 am                             
Myth vs. Reality:  Lab Screening of Patients with Alopecia Areata & Vitiligo 
Liborka Kos, MD, Children’s Physician Group, Gurnee, IL      

8:05 – 8:40 am                 
Contact Dermatitis in Children                               
Sharon Jacob. MD, Rady Children’s Hospital, San Diego, CA

8:40 – 9:15 am                 
HURWITZ LECTURE – PART I
Neonatal Dermatology: Physiology and Pathology of the Skin in the Neonate and Young Infant                                                                
Peter Hoeger, MD, Catholic Children’s Hospital, Hamburg, Germany

9:15 – 9:25 am                 
Quiz                                                                           
Tor Shwayder. MD

9:25 – 9:30 am                 
RESEARCH GRANT AWARDS                          
Mary Williams, MD, University of California – San Francisco (chair)

William Weston Research Award
Bullous pemphigoid marker expression in the serum of children clinically diagnosed with vulvar lichen sclerosus et atrophicus
Mandi Maronn, MD, Medical College of Wisconsin/Baylor College of Medicine

Pilot Project Award
Oral azathioprine and pediatric atopic dermatitis: Evaluation of the cutaneous antimicrobial barrier and immune response
Wynnis Tom, MD, Rady Children’s Hospital/University of California – San Diego

9:30 – 9:50 am                 
Past Award Recipient Lecture                     
Immune Suppression of Infants Treated w/Oral Corticosteroids
for Infantile Hemangioma

Beth Drolet, MD, Medical College of Wisconsin

9:50 – 10:25 am                 
Aggressive Histiocytic Disorders of the Skin           
Anita Gilliam, MD, Ph.D., Palo Alto Medical Clinic, Palo Alto, CA

10:25 – 10:55 am                  
Break and Poster Viewing

10:55 – 11:10 am                  
Developing Country Award
How Can a Public Health Program Improve the Management
of Common Skin Diseases?    
                                         
Ousmane Faye, MD, CNAM, Mali (West Africa)                             

11:10 – 11:45 am
Bench to Bedside:  Pachyonychia Congenita Project          
Sancy Leachman, MD, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

11:45 – 12:20 pm
Myths vs. Reality:  Isotretinoin & Acne              
Julie Harper, MD, The Dermatology and Skin Care Center, Birmingham, AL                  

12:20 – 1:50 pm                 
Sam Weinberg’s Cases of the Year                          
Leonard Kristal, MD, SUNY-Stony Brook, New Hyde Park, NY (moderator)

2:45 pm                                
Optional Activities


FRIDAY, JULY 11, 2008

6:45 – 7:45 am           
Breakfast 

7:45 – 8:00 am                 
Presentation of AAP Section on Dermatology Alvin Jacobs Award
Presented by: Ilona Frieden, MD
Recipient: Mary Williams, MD, University of California - San Francisco

8:00 – 8:10 am                 
Myth vs. Reality:  Pityriasis Rosea – Utility of RPR Testing and Treatment with Oral Erythromycin                                                                        
John Browning, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

8:10 – 8:45 am                 
HURWITZ LECTURE – PART II
Staphylococcus aureus: A Common Pathogen Revisited From Colonization to Infection     
Peter Hoeger, MD, Catholic Children’s Hospital, Hamburg, Germany

8:45 – 9:25 am                 
Cases in Search of a Diagnosis                              
Teri Kahn, MD, University of Maryland, School of Medicine – Baltimore, MD (moderator), Ginna Sybert, MD, University of Washington and Julie Schaffer, MD, NYU School of Medicine (panelists)

9:25 – 9:35 am                 
Quiz                                                                           
Tor Shwayder, MD

9:35 – 10:10 am                 
FOUNDER’S LECTURE
Gene Therapy for Epidermolysis Bullosa                            
Al Lane, MD, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

10:10 – 10:20 am                  
Resident Research Award Presentation
Transglutaminase-1 and genotype-phenotype investigations of 104 North American patients with autosomal recessive congenital ichthyosis
Sharifeh Farasat, National Institutes of Health

10:20 – 10:50 am                  
Break and Poster Viewing

10:50 – 11:25 am                  
Current Controversies & Challenges in Cutaneous Melanoma 
Hensin Tsao, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

11:25 – 11:55 am                  
The Year in Review                                                          
Mary Wu Chang, MD, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, Hartford, CT

11:55 – 12:30 pm                  
Eczema, Hair Loss, Psoriasis – Is It Really Celiac Disease?                      
John Zone, MD, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

12:30 – 12:45 pm                  
Humor in Dermatology:  The Zonoscope                   
John Zone, MD, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

12:45 – 1:15 pm                 
Junior Faculty/Fellow Forum                                              
moderated by Alanna Bree, MD, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX
Elizabeth Alvarez-Connelly, MD, University of Miami, Miami, FL

1:15 – 1:55 pm                 
SPD Business Meeting                                 

6:00 pm – 9:00 pm                    
Dinner – Snowbird Event Center


SATURDAY, JULY 12, 2008

6:45 – 7:45 am                 
Breakfast

7:45 – 8:00 am                 
Myth vs. reality:  Pityriasis Lichenoides & Lymphoma
Elena Pope, MD, Hospital for Sick Children – Toronto, Ontario, Canada

8:00 – 8:35 am                 
Update on Genetics & the Skin                                
Hensin Tsao, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

8:35 – 9:10 am  
The Conundrum of Angiomatosis                                  
Cheryl Coffin, MD, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

9:10 – 9:20 am                 
Poster Awards                                                                 

9:20 – 9:45 am                 
Laser Treatment of Port Wine Stains – 20 Years’ Experience
Sandy Tsao, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

9:45 – 10:05 am     
Panel Discussion - Laser Treatment of Port Wine Stains                                         
Sandy Tsao, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Joe Morelli, MD, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO
Annette Wagner, MD, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
Julie Francis, MD, Eastside Dermatology, Bellevue, WA

10:05 – 10:15 am                  
Myth vs. Reality:  Is compression beneficial in the management of hemangiomas?
Dakara Rucker Wright, MD, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI

10:15 – 10:45 am                  
Break and Poster Viewing

10:45 – 11:20 am                  
Pediatric Clinical Pathologic Correlation                  
Loren Golitz, MD, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO

11:20 – 11:55 am                  
Pediatric Vulvar Diseases                                                
Libby Edwards, MD, Mid-Charlotte Dermatology, Charlotte, NC

11:55 – 12:20 pm                  
Myth vs. Reality:  Are Atopiclair, MimyX, and CeraVe Any Better Than Plain Ol’ Vaseline Jelly for Atopic Dermatitis?  (Is $500/lb Really Better Than $1/lb?)
Anna Bruckner, MD, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

12:20 – 12:40 pm                  
Work-up of Chronic Urticaria in Children – How Much is Enough, How Much is Too Much?                                                                  
Kelly Cordoro, University of California – San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

12:40 – 1:00 pm                 
Basic Science Update                                  
Amy Paller, MD, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
Mary Williams, MD, University of California, San Francisco, CA
        

1:00 pm                                
Adjourn

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