Features of the plenary session (P151) at this year’s American Academy of Dermatology annual meeting include the Clarence S. Livingood, MD Memorial Award and Lectureship, on “Telemedicine and the Future of Medicine,” presented by Carrie L. Kovarik, MD, of the department of dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Dr. Kovarik’s presentation will be followed by the AAD president’s address, by outgoing president Abel Torres, MD, JD, professor and chairman of the department of dermatology at Case Western Reserve University MetroHealth Systems, Cleveland; and professor and chairman of the department of dermatology at Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, California.
Christine Léauté-Labrèze, MD, of the Hôpital Pellegrin–Enfants, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Bordeaux, France, will then present the Eugene J. Van Scott Award for Innovative Therapy of the Skin and Phillip Frost Leadership Lecture: “Propranolol in Infantile Hemangiomas: A Successful Drug Repurposing.” Dr. Léauté-Labrèze was the lead author of the multicenter, randomized controlled study that evaluated the efficacy and safety of oral propranolol for treating infantile hemangiomas (N Engl J Med. 2015;372:735-46).
Incoming AAD president Henry W. Lim, MD, will follow, with the president-elect’s address. Dr. Lim is the chairman of the department of dermatology and Clarence S. Livingood Chair in Dermatology at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit.
Boris C. Bastian, MD, professor of dermatology and pathology, University of California, San Francisco, will give the Lila and Murray Gruber Memorial Cancer Research Award and Lectureship, on “How Moles Become Cancer.” Dr. Bastian is also the director of the Clinical Cancer Genomics Laboratory at UCSF.
This year, the Marion B. Sulzberger, MD, Memorial Award and Lectureship – titled “Getting to the Heart (and other Comorbidities) of Psoriasis” – will be given by Joel M. Gelfand, MD, professor of dermatology, University of Pennsylvania.
Finally, this year’s guest speaker is the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Jordan W. Tappero, MD, whose lecture is titled: “The West African Ebola Epidemic and the Global Health Security Agenda.” Dr. Tappero is director of the Division of Global Health Protection, in the CDC’s Center for Global Health.
The plenary session is scheduled for Sunday March 5, 8 AM to 11:30 AM, in the Chapin Theater at the Orange County Convention Center, Orlando.