Providing the best care possible for our patients starts by taking care of ourselves, our colleagues, and our profession. In this session we’ll discuss our responsibilities to ourselves and others, and review strategies for optimizing self-care.

This lecture will highlight practical approaches to diagnosis, evaluation, and management of a wide range of dermatologic conditions encountered in the pediatric population. Common and uncommon conditions as well as benign and more urgent diagnoses will be discussed.

The pathophysiology of atopic dermatitis can be complex. This session will use a case-based approach to review management algorithms to treat this disease.

What is dermatology going to look like in 10 or 20 years? Change is inevitable, but it does not have to be scary. Let's talk about the forces impacting our field over the next few years and how it may change our jobs and care for our patients.

Dr. Glick will review the technology and science behind SRT and will provide cases detailing the selection process for appropriate candidates for the use of SRT in the management of non-melanoma skin cancer. Dr. Markowitz uses non-invasive lasers such as optical coherence tomography, for which she has led the research in America. She combines this with nonablative lasers to remove most skin cancers without cutting. Dr. Markowitz’s treatments always result in scar-free outcomes in which patients go home without a Band-Aid the same day. Across the globe dermatologists are changing the way they perform skin biopsies and cancer surgery. Cutting skin cancer in more private areas is not the future. This lecture will focus on opportunities to change for the better by utilizing a non-cutting approach.

Atopic dermatitis, commonly referred to as eczema, is one of the most encountered diagnoses in the treatment of skin disease in children. This lecture will review common and uncommon presentations of atopic dermatitis as well as considerations for management, including the effects of topical and systemic therapies, parental concerns, and the role of allergies.

Cutaneous blisters can occur in the setting of injury, infection, drug reactions, and autoimmune diseases. This session will focus on the identification, diagnostic work up, and management of cutaneous blisters.

HS is a chronic inflammatory skin disease with a large negative effect on the quality of life. In caring for these patients it’s important to consider ways to control and manage this disease.

PA burnout is on the rise, but what steps can PAs take to heal? This session will guide you through the burnout recovery steps all the way from crying in the parking lot at work to being excited about your job again. The grand finale will be deciding whether you should resign or revive your current job.

Alopecia is common, and various forms can look alike. This presentation will review evaluation methods to diagnose common alopecias efficiently.