Resident and Fellows Symposium
Winners announced for laboratory and clinical research.
The “S029 – Residents and Fellows Symposium” was held Saturday, during the 2023 AAD Annual Meeting in New Orleans, led by Cory A. Dunnick, MD, FAAD. Faculty judges selected individuals who presented the most outstanding papers in laboratory and clinical research. The winners of this year’s prestigious Everett C. Fox Memorial Award are:
Category: Basic Science
Winner Name: Nelson Ugwu, MD
Institution: Department of Dermatology, Yale School of Medicine
Title: A gain-of-function somatic mutation in GJA4 underlies venous malformations in the skin and liver, and reveals a novel pathway for therapeutic intervention
Category: Basic Science
Winner Name: Shadi Khalil, MD, PhD
Institution: University of California, San Diego
Title: Epidermal iron content couples to systemic iron homeostasis and host defense
Category: Clinical
Winner Name: Keegan O’Hern, MD
Institution: Mayo Clinic
Title: Increasing Utilization of Mohs Micrographic Surgery for Melanoma with Improved Survival over Wide Local Excision: A National Cancer Database Analysis
Category: Clinical
Winner Name: Daniel Joffe, CTCL research fellow
Institution: Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Biology, Thomas Jefferson University
Title: Reduced Overall T-cell Receptor Diversity as an Indicator of Aggressive Cutaneous T-cell Lymphoma
Category: Clinical
Winner Name: Justin D. Arnold, MD
Institution: University of California, Irvine
Title: Characteristics and Complications of Anogenital Infantile Hemangiomas
Category: Clinical
Winner Name: Kun-Lin Lu
Institution: Department of Dermatology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou branch, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Title: The Role of T helper 17 cells in Paraneoplastic Pemphigus/Paraneoplastic Autoimmune Multiorgan Syndrome
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