Meetings
The 69th Annual Meeting, held Feb. 4-8 in New Orleans, once again brought together a collection of dermatology’s brightest minds for five days of world-class continuing medical education. More than 16,000 attendees — including nearly 9,000 medical professionals — traveled to the event, with many of them overcoming a blizzard to make it. It was worth it: Those in attendance at the plenary session were able to hear Marion B. Sulzburger Award winner Thomas S. Kupper, MD, discuss the role of skin-resident T-cells. Anton Steutz, PhD, detailed the difficulties of breaking through to new discoveries during the Phillip Frost Leadership Lecture. The first-ever Late Breaking Research symposium was held during the meeting, with new research on the smallpox vaccine and atopic dermatitis, dermal neurofibroma development, and basal cell carcinoma introducing a host of dermatologists to exciting new directions in science and education.
Summer Academy Meeting 2011, held in New York City Aug. 3-7, surpassed 2010’s Summer Academy Meeting attendance numbers by more than 1,000 attendees. It also featured a plenary packed with exciting lectures, as well as a new grand rounds symposium, a fully searchable electronic database of posters, and the debut of joint sessions between the AAD and the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology.
