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The Pacific Dermatologic Association was founded in 1948 for educational and scientific purposes and to provide opportunities for the exchange of information and advancement of dermatological knowledge among physicians.
Membership is drawn from physicians practicing in the states of Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming together with physicians in Mexico, Alberta and British Columbia, Canada along with the Pacific Rim countries including but not limited to Australia, China, Japan, New Zealand, Malaysia, the Philippines, North and South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
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THE VIEW FROM UP HERE
By Gordon Searles, MD
Attack from the Rear: The Emerging Role of Solar Infrared Radiation on Accelerted Photoaging
For years, dermatologists have cautioned the public of the perils of ultraviolet radiation on carcinogenesis and accelerated photoaging. Study after study has shown that UVB and UVA can make our patients look older and present with all nature of cancers that fill our schedules. And despite the Vitamin D controversy, we fell that the newer broad-spectrum sunscreens have helped our patients. So, we have set up the Maginot Line at the UV-visible spectrum border, confident that the "enemy" can be contained. MORE >>
AREA 51: UNUSUAL
BUT TRUE CASES
By Bruce Ragsdale, MD
Antibiotic-Resistant Suppurative/Granulomatous Dermatits
A 79-year-old woman presented to her primary care physician in May 2005 with a "spider bite" that began as two lesions on her forearm near her elbow, sustained three weeks previously in Hawaii. After 10 days on Keflex, the raised, erythematous to purple skin changes were still evident, and seven additional lesions had appeared distally. MORE >>
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NICKEL/WINER "BEST CPC CASE" AWARD
Richard McClintock Jr., MD, was the "Best CPC Case" Award recipient at the 61st Annual Meeting. Dr. McClintock submitted a clinicopathologic case to the Walter R. Nickel / Louis H. Winer Dermatopathology CPC entitled, "Erythrokeratoderma Progressiva Symmetrica; Degos' Acanthoma."
ARNOLD W. GUREVITCH AWARD
Julianne Mann, MD, Oregon Health & Science University, was the Arnold W. Gurevitch Award recipient. The Gurevitch Award is given to the best resident presenter during the Annual Meeting. Dr. Mann presented a case entitled, "A Rare Case of Galli-Galli Disease." Click here to view her presentation.
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The 2009 Resident Case Presenters at the 61st Annual Meeting in Portland, OR.
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2009 SPONSORS
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