The project on The Burden of Skin Disease Co - Morbidities
     
     
 
Project Launch Conference

October 15 - 16, 2008
Marriott Bethesda North, Bethesda, MD

Program

Tuesday October 14th

Afternoon/evening Arrivals

Wednesday October 15 th

7:00am - 5:00pm Registration
7:00am -7:45am Continental Breakfast
7:45am -7:50 am Welcome
Robert Swerlick, MD and Dennis Barbour, Esq.
7:50am -8:00 am

Conference Goals
Lowell Goldsmith, MD

8:00 am -8:45am

Keynote Address-"What are your drugs really doing to your patients? Epidemiological approaches to studying drug-induced disease"
Brian Strom, MD, MPH

8:45am -9:00am

Systemic Signs of Skin Disease-What Would Irwin Braverman Think?
Mark Udey, MD/PhD

9:00am - 9:30am Treatment-induced Skin Disease


Mario Lacouture, MD
9:30am - 9:45am Q & A
9:45am - 10:15am

Dermatologic-Psychiatric Diseases and the Skin
Francisco Tausk, MD

10:15am - 10:30am Q & A
10:30am - 11:00am

Co-Morbidity and Skin Disease: The Psoriasis Model
Joel Gelfand, MD

11:00am - 11:15am Q & A

11:15am - Noon Panel Discussion-All Speakers/Recap

Facilitator: Robert Swerlick, MD

Address:

Common Needs:

Definitional Issues

Data

Common Opportunities

Laboratory based Research Needs

Patient and Population based research

Noon - 1:00pm Lunch

 

1:00pm - 2:45pm Concurrent Sessions

 

I Dermatotoxicity

Panel: Michael Bigby, MD; Edward Cowen, MD, Charles Bennett, MD

Moderator : Michael Bigby, MD

Topics:

      • Immune and Genetic Susceptibility Factors
      • Available Registries and Data
      • Drug-specific versus Malignancy-specific Effects.
      • What have we learned about other drug related effects

 

II Dermatologic-Psychiatric Disease

Panel: Alexa Kimball, MD; Phillip Harvey, MD; Peter Muehrer, PhD
Moderator: Rob Stern, MD

Topics:

 

      • Basic nature of skin associated psychiatric disease
          • Skin induced psych disease vs. psych induced skin disease
          • De novo psych disease vs. skin aggravated

      • Available data sets
      • What tools are available to measure psychiatric impact and what tools need to be developed?
      • How does this work?
          • Insight from basic studies of psyche disease  - depression, anxiety
          • Treatment of skin disease resulting in improvement of mood disorders and vice versa
          • Genetic data

 

III Cutaneous-Cardiovascular Disease

Panel: Kevin Cooper, MD; Joel Kremer, MD; Eric Yang, MD

Moderator: Martin Weinstock, MD/PhD

Topics:

      • End Points (Clinical versus Surrogate)
      • Inflammatory Links
      • Disease-disease; disease-drug/treatment interrelationships
      • Immune and Genetic Susceptibility Factors
      • Available Registries and Data ; adequate sample size
      • Drug-specific and Disease-specific Effects.
      • Lessons Learned

 

2:45pm - 3:00pm Break

3:00pm- 4:40pm Re-convene: Reports Back From Group Discussions

Facilitator: Alexa Kimball, MD

        • Common Needs: Definitional Issues, lessons learned, New Position Data
        • Common Opportunities: Laboratory based Research Needs,
        • Patient and Population based research
        • Other high priority diseases or co-morbidities that should be addressed

4:40pm - 5:00pm Break

5:00pm - 5:30pm Susceptibility to Diseases and Side Effects; What Genomic Studies Will Show

Julia Segre, PhD, NIGMS

5:45pm - 6:45pm Cocktail Reception

 

Thursday October 16 th

7:00am - 9:00am Registration

7:15am - 8:00am Continental Breakfast

8:00am - 9:20am Registry Panel

        • Data needs-how serious, urgency and priority
          Ken Katz, MD
        • The VA as a Study Base
          Robert Lew, PhD
        • FDA data
          Jonathan Wilkin, MD
        • Maryam Asgari, MD
          Kaiser Data

9:20am - 9:35am Break

 

9:35am - 10:30am Continuation of Registry Panel Discussion

Industry Models

Alopecia Areata Registry Model
Madeleine Duvic, MD

10: 30am - 11:00am Next Steps

        • Results of Discussions
          Lowell Goldsmith, MD
        • Organizational Approaches
          Dennis Barbour, Esq.
        • Co-Morbidity Workshop at 2009 SID Meeting

11:00am -11:15am Future Opportunities-Brian Strom

11:25am -11:30am Closing Remarks

11:30am - 12:30pm Lunch Buffet

12:30pm - 1:30pm Departures


 
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