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Physicians need to adapt to practicing in a digital world
Jeffrey Benabio, MD From electronic medical records to Facebook to Yelp, health care professionals are living in the digital world, whether they like it or not. In short, physicians need to accept the...
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Stepwise treatment approach vital for sarcoidosis patients
Misha Rosenbach, MD Without an FDA-approved medicine for sarcoidosis, physicians have looked to off-label use of pharmaceuticals to help their patients. This uncommon multisystem granulomatous disease...
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Presenters offer strategies to treat atypical melanocytic lesions
Caroline Kim, MD When dermatologists encounter patients with atypical melanocytic lesions, the prospect of evaluating and managing these patients is particularly challenging. These patients can present...
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Academy emphasizes recommendations to educate about skin cancers in people of...
Henry Lim, MD, chair of the AAD Photoprotection for Skin of Color Workgroup, talks with a Forum attendee following the session Saturday. Lost in the emphasis on diagnosing and treating melanoma among...
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Presenters offer strategies to reduce medical errors
Eliot N. Mostow, MD, MPH, talks with a session attendee at the end of Saturday’s Forum about reducing errors in medical practices. Taking a cue from how dermatologists work to diagnose, treat, and...
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Guest speaker says gender differences underplayed in genetic research
David Page, MD: ‘I see an opportunity now to get serious about the biology of X and Y chromosomes.’ There are two types of people in the world — males and females — and for decades gender differences...
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Dermatologists need to take control of their destinies
Jack Resneck Jr., MD: ‘The world is changing and we will be marginalized if we don’t adapt.’ The Academy has emphasized how the world of health care is changing, and it is a change that makes...
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Long research journey leads to promising treatment advances for BCCs, other...
Ervin H. Epstein Jr., MD: ‘If you take enough government money and put it into basic research, you will end up with things you can do for people that absolutely would not have been possible otherwise.’...
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Digital expert being developed to make cancer treatments more accessible
Lynda Chin, MD, used the Lila and Murray Gruber Memorial Cancer Research Award and Lectureship to explain how advanced computer technology can help physicians better understand complex cancer...
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Understanding of stem cell development helps produce skin cancer therapies
Anthony Eugene Oro, MD, PhD, discusses the effect of stem cell factors on cancers during his Marion B. Sulzberger Memorial Award and Lectureship address. The ability of stem cells to develop in a...
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