17th Annual Meeting of The Photomedicine Society

Thursday, January 31, 2008
Grand Salon D, Marriott River Center, San Antonio, TX, USA

7:30-8:00      Registration/refreshments

 

8:00-8:10      OPENING REMARKS:  Michael Zanolli, MD

 

                     ORAL SESSION I      Basic Science Session (Grand Salon D):  Moderated by Sewon Kang, MD

 

                     Sunscreen and Photoprotection

8:10-8:20      Photostability as a novel key safety parameter for modern sunscreening products.  Maier H, Schauberger G, Brunnhofer K, H`nigsmann H.  Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

 

8:20-8:22      Q & A

 

8:22-8:32      The ideal sunscreen – how should it protect? – an in silico assessment of objectives, opportunities, regulations and limitations.  Osterwalder U, Herzog B.  Ciba, Inc., Basel, Switzerland.

 

8:32-8:34      Q & A

 

8:34-8:44      Examination and recommendation for solar simulators use for the determination of sunscreen UVA efficacy.  Sayre RM, Dowdy JC.  Rapid Precision Testing Laboratories, Cordova, TN, USA.

 

8:44-8:46      Q & A

 

8:46-8:56      Examination of the inclusion of visible wavelengths (400nm to 700nm) in photosafety testing.  Teske S, Berg J, Risk S, Sayre RM, Dowdy RM.  Rapid Precision Testing Laboratories, Cordova, TN, and Hill Top Research, St. Petersburg, FL, USA.

 

8:56-8:58      Q & A

 

9:00-9:30      SPECIAL TOPICS:

                  “State of the art of systemic photoprotection”.  Professor Lesley E. Rhodes, MD, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.

 

9:30-9:35      Q & A

 

9:35-10:05    SPECIAL TOPICS:

                  “The status of FDA sunscreen monograph”.  Professor Henry W. Lim, MD, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA.

 

10:05-10:10     Q & A

 

10:10-10:20     BREAK FOR COFFEE

 

10:20-10:50     SPECIAL TOPICS:

                        “Photodynamic Therapy:  applications and innovations”.  Elma Baron, MD, Case Western

                        University, Cleveland, OH, USA.

 

10:50-10:55     Q&A

 

11:00-11:30     “Update on DNA repair liposomes”.  Daniel B. Yarosh, PhD, AGI Dermatics, Freeport, NY, USA.

 

11:30-11:35     Q & A

 

11:40-1:00       LUNCH

 

                  ORAL SESSION II – Clinical session (Grand Salon D):  Moderated by Michael Zanolli, MD and Heidi Jacobe, MD

 

                        Phototherapy

1:00-1:10         *The efficacy of “high dose” versus “medium dose” UVA1 phototherapy in severe atopic dermatitis may be related to skin type.  Pacifico A, Di Carlo A, Leone G.  Gallicano Institute, Rome, Italy.

 

1:10-1:12         Q & A

 

1:12-1:22         *Safety, efficacy and adherence of acitretin combined with home phototherapy.  Yentzer BA, Yelverton CB, Pearce DJ, Camacho FT, Makhzoumi Z, Clark A, Boles A, Fleischer AB Jr, Balkrishnan R, Feldman SR.  Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.

 

1:22-1:24         Q & A

 

1:24-1:34         Long term remissions of early cutaneous T cell lymphoma induced by PUVA without maintenance PUVA therapy.  Bruce AT, Jones D, Anderson TF.  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

 

1:34-1:36         Q & A

 

1:36-1:46         Leukocyte trafficking of 8-MOP treated leukocytes after photopheresis in humans.  Just U, Grumbeck E, Knobler R, Kosner G, Ivancic E, Greinix H, Becherer A, Trautinger F.  University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

 

1:46-1:48         Q & A

 

1:48-1:58         *Photoadaption of vitiliginous skin to UVB phototherapy.  Hexsel CL, Mahmoud BH, Mitchell D, Rivard J, Owen M, Lim HW, Hamzavi I.  Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA.

 

1:58-2:00         Q & A

 

                        Vitamin D

2:00-2:10         *Vitamin D and nonmelanoma skin cancer in a cohort of kidney transplant patients.  Hexsel CL, Eide MJ Johnson CC, Mahmoud BH, Krajenta R, Jacobsen G, Rao D, Lim HW, Hamzavi I.  Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA.

 

2:10:-2:12        Q & A

 

2:12-3:12         GUEST SPEAKER:  R. Rox Anderson, MD

                        “Enigmas from laser photomedicine”.  Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Boston, MA, USA.

 

3:12-3:17         Q & A

 

3:17-3:30         BREAK FOR COFFEE

 

3:30-4:00         SPECIAL TOPICS:

                  “Phototherapy mechanisms of action and applications for vitiligo”.  Iltefat Hamzavi, MD, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA.

 

                        Photobiology, Immunology

4:00-4:10        *Impact of long wavelength UVA and visible light on melanocompetent skin.  Mahmoud B, Hexsel C, Liu Y, Kollias N, Lim H, Hamzavi I.  Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA.

 

4:10-4:12         Q & A

 

4:12-4:22         *Effects of pimecrolimus vs triamcinolone on skin Langerhans cells after simulated solar irradiation.  Santo Domingo D, Hsia A, Martires K, Plotner A, Baron E.  Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.

 

4:22-4:24         Q & A

 

4:24-4:34         Pigment melanin scavenges nitric oxide in vitro.  Possible consequences for keloid formation in pigmented skin.  Menter JM, Eatman D, Bayorh M, Willis I.  Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.

 

4:34-4:36         Q & A

 

4:36-4:46         The distribution of the antioxidant ergothioneine receptor OCTN1 in skin and skin cells.  Smiles K, Damaghi N, Jurukovska N, Markova N, Yarosh D.  AGI Dermatics, Freeport, NY, USA.

 

4:46-4:48         Q & A

 

4:48-4:58         Localized bullous solar vasculitis.  Ho WL, O’Regan G, Treacy A, Gaynor GM, Murphy GM.  Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.

 

4:58-5:00         Q & A

 

5:00-5:15         ANNOUNCEMENT OF “BEST PRESENTATION BY RESIDENT/FELLOW”

 

5:30-8:00         COCKTAIL/RECEPTION:  In conjunction with the American Contact Dermatitis Society

 

 

 

 

Jointly sponsored event with