Julius Stone Lecturer
Akiko Iwasaki, PhD
Yale School of Medicine
Title: Immune Responses to SARS-CoV-2
Herman Beerman Lecturer
Neil H. Shubin, PhD
University of Chicago
Title: Some Assembly Required: The Deep History of the Human Body
William Montagna Lecturer
Daniel Kaplan, MD/PhD
University of Pittsburgh
Title: Cutaneous Neurons Modulate Skin Inflammation
Eugene M. Farber Lecturer
April Armstrong, MD/MPH
Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California (USC)
Title: Getting Clear: Psoriasis Advancements and Beyond
Naomi M. Kanof Lecturer
Mary Margaret “Meg” Chren, MD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Title: The Use of Patient Reports to Improve Healthcare
Stephen Rothman Memorial Awardee
Paul Khavari, MD/PhD
Stanford University
State-of-the-Art Plenary Lecture I
Julia Oh, PhD
The Jackson Laboratory
Title: From Metagenomes to Therapeutics: The Landscape of the Human Skin Microbiome
State-of-the-Art Plenary Lecture II
Ya-Chieh Hsu, PhD
Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Title: Skin Deep: Stem Cells at the Nexus of the Niche, Physiology, and the External Environment
State-of-the-Art Plenary Lecture III
Isaac Brownell, MD/PhD
NIAMS, NIH
Title: Merkel Cells and Merkel cell Carcinoma – Neuroendocrine Skin Cells from Development to Cancer
State-of-the-Art Plenary Lecture IV
Donald Glass, MD/PhD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Title: Keloids: Aberrant Wound Healing/Inflammatory Fibroproliferative Disorder
State-of-the-Art Plenary Lecture V
C. Henrique Serezani, PhD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Title: Understanding Skin Host Defense in Health and Disease
State-of-the-Art Plenary Lecture VI
Shuai “Steve” Xu, MD/MSc
Northwestern University
Title: Digital Dermatology
Special Guest Speaker
Michael T. Osterholm, PhD/MPH
University of Minnesota
Plenary Sessions I-IV
Plenary Sessions I-IV are a showcase of submitted abstracts that the Scientific Program Chairs and organizers felt were the most representative of the most cutting edge science, reflect a diversity of topics and speakers, and was scored highly amongst the abstract reviewers (among other things).