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    Clinical - Aesthetic

    Clinical - Medical

    CME
    CME

    Managing Hyper and Hypo Pigmentation Disorders

    Friday, April 12, 2024
    7:00 AM – 7:45 AM EDT
    Location: Room 322

      Course Director(s)

    • Patricia Richey, MD

      Assistant Professor
      1. Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 2. Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 3. Department of Dermatology, Boston University School of Medicine

    • Douglas Wu, MD, PhD

    Course Directors: Patricia M. Richey, MD; Douglas Wu, MD, PhD

    Course Description:

    • This session is intended to cover "dynamic" disorders - skin disorders in which there is an increase or decrease of melanin. There is a separate session on discrete lesions comprised of pigment and tattoos. Topics may include management of melasma, PIH, vitiligo, ochronosis, hemosiderin, etc.

    Presentations:

    • 7:00 AM – 7:12 AM EDT
      Postprocedural/Post-Operative Dyspigmentation

      Faculty: Patricia M. Richey, MD – 1. Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 2. Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 3. Department of Dermatology, Boston University School of Medicine

    • 7:12 AM – 7:24 AM EDT
      Treatment of Benign Pigmented Lesions in Skin of Color

      Faculty: Douglas Wu, MD, PhD

    • 7:24 AM – 7:36 AM EDT
      Laser and Light-Based Treatment of Melasma

      Faculty: Catherine M. DiGiorgio, MD – CMD Dermatology, Laser & Aesthetics