2009
4th MEDICAL DERMATOLOGY CONFERENCE
Joint Meeting of the Royal College of Physicians
and the British Association of Dermatologists
Thursday 12th March 2009
09:00 – 09:50 Registration, coffee & exhibition
09:50 – 10:00 Introduction and welcome - Professor Humphrey Hodgson
Session 1: Chair - TBC
10:00 – 10:30 Translating Scleroderma – pathogenesis to therapy
Professor Chris Denton (London)
10:30 – 11:00 Pustular rashes and arthritis
Dr Susan Burge (Oxford)
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee and exhibition
Session 2: Chair - Dr Susan Burge
11:30 – 12:00 Biologic therapies in vasculitis and Behçet’s
Dr David Jayne (Cambridge)
12:00 – 12:30 Parkes Weber Lecture: Presented by Professor Humphrey
Hodgson
Blisters and basement membranes
Professor Fenella Wojnarowska
12:30 – 13:20 Lunch and exhibition
Session 3: Chair -Professor David Gawkrodger
13:20 – 14:05 Medical Dermatology – Challenging Cases
13:20 – 13:27 Pancreatitis, Panniculitis and Polyarthritis Syndrome
Dr Haythem Al-Rawi and Dr. S. Kirke (Durham)
13:27 – 13:34 Kaposi's Sarcoma and Lymphodema
Dr Kristiana D.Gordon and J. Natkunarajah on behalf of Professor P.
Mortimer (London)
13:34 – 13:41 Lupus erythematosus-a challenging case
Dr Tess McPherson, Chris Pugh, Tim Littlewood and Susan Burge (Oxford)
13:41 – 13:48 A case of linear IgA disease associated with ulcerative
colitis precipitated by herpes simplex infection
Dr Mark Darling and MJ Tidman (Edinburgh)
13:48 – 13: 55 Complications of immunosuppression with mycophenolate
mofetil in immune-mediated skin disease
Dr Kapil Bhargava, SM Langan and RW Groves (London)
13:55 – 14:02 Patch testing can be helpful in the investigation of
cutaneous adverse drug reactions.
Dr Mili Shah and Prof D Gawkrodger (Sheffield)
14:05 – 14:35 Bone marrow transplant- new applications and early
complications including rashes. “What to do”, - is it infection, is it
acute graft vs host disease, is it a drug reaction?
Dr John Snowden (Sheffield)
14:35 – 15:05 Chronic Graft Versus Host Disease: Skin directed therapy
for the Skin & Mucosa
Dr Julia Scarisbrick (London)
15:05 – 15:30 Tea and exhibition
Session 4: Chair -Dr Jane Sterling
15:30 – 15:55 Mastocytosis- mechanisms, new investigations and
treatments
Professor John Reilly (Sheffield)
15:55 – 16:20 Skin signs in haemato-oncology patients
Dr Daniel Creamer (London)
16:20 Close