Conference Agenda

Dermatology Department, Taubman Center Floor 1, Reception B
7:00 am  Registration, Coat Check, and Continental Breakfast 

7:30 – 9:50 am  Histopathology

8:00 – 9:50 am  Patient Presentations

Dow Auditorium, Towsley Center
10:00 – 12:40 pm  Didactic Lectures Moderator: Christopher Bichakjian, MD, Interim Chair & Professor, Department of Dermatology, University of Michigan Medical School

10:00 – 10:30 am  Association of Dermatology Wait Times with Insurance Coverage in Michigan Yolanda Helfrich, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Dermatology, University of Michigan Medical School

10:30 – 11:00 am  Merkel Cell Carcinoma: Update in Diagnosis, Staging, and Multidisciplinary Management Kelly Harms, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Dermatology, University of Michigan Medical School

11:00 – 11:30 am  How a Common Virus Causes a Rare Cancer: New Insights into Merkel Cell Carcinoma Andrzej Dlugosz, MD, Poth Professor of Cutaneous Oncology, Department of Dermatology, University of Michigan Medical School

11:30 – 12:40 pm  The Arthur C. Curtis Lecture: Chronic Itch Brian S. Kim, MD, MTR, FAAD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Dermatology), Anesthesiology, and Pathology and Immunology, Department of Medicine, Division of Dermatology, Washington University School of Medicine

12:40 – 1:40 pm Michigan Dermatological Society Business Meeting Luncheon (lunch will be provided for those who RSVP’d for the business meeting)

Sheldon Auditorium
12:40 – 1:40 pm Resident Luncheon Brian S. Kim, MD, MTR, FAAD