Didactic Meeting Hosted by Tufts University Medical School

8:00 – 8:30 a.m.

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 – 9:15 a.m.

What’s New in Melanoma Research

Guest Speaker, Rhoda Alani, M.D.

Chief, Department of Dermatology

Professor and Chairman of Dermatology

Boston University School of Medicine

9:15 – 10:00 a.m.

What’s New for Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis

Moderator and Speaker, Alice B. Gottlieb, M.D., PhD

Dermatologist in Chief and Chair

Harvey b Ansell Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine

10:00 – 11:15 a.m.

Questions and Answers

10:15 – 11:00 a.m.

Loss of Function Haploid Genetic Screens 

Guest Speaker, David Rosmarin, M.D., M.A.

Associate Physician/ Instructor in Dermatology

11:00 – 11:45 a.m.

Photodynamic Therapy for Advanced Cutaneous Malignancies

Guest Speaker, Gary S. Rogers, M.D.

Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine

Director, Dermatologic Surgery & Oncology at Tufts Medical Center

11:45 – 12:30 p.m.

Lunch

12:30 – 1:00 p.m.

Business Meeting

1:00 – 1:30 p.m.

The Dermatology Workforce Study

Guest Speaker, Alexa B. Kimball, M.D.

Vice Chair, Massachusetts General Hospital

Department of Dermatology

Director, Clinical Unit for Research Trials in Skin

1:30 – 2:00 p.m.

Immunomodulatory Therapy and Skin Neoplasia in Psoriasis and Rheumatoid Arthritis Physician Tiering

Guest Speaker, Michael Krathen, M.D. 

Dermatology Resident 

Boston University/Tufts Combined Training Program 

2:00 p.m.

Final Comments and Meeting Adjourns