2011 Named Lectures, State-of-the-Art Lectures and Awards

Taped Lectures from the 2011 Annual Meeting are now available. Click on the presenter's picture below to view their presentation.  

 

 Albert M. Kligman/Phillip Frost Leadership Lecture

Established in 2007, this award is made to an individual in ackowledgment of significant contributions to the understanding of structure and function of skin, preferable in the past five years. The lectureship is intended to honor Dr. Albert Kligman, whose great commitment to dermatology and numerous contributions to the specialty has inspired generations of researchers and practitioners.  Click here for further information including past award recipients.

2011 Award Recipient:  Peter M. Elias, MD, University of California, San Francisco

The Nature of the Mammalian Permeability Barrier

Dr. Elias graduated from Stanford University in 1963 and obtained his M.D. from the UCSF in 1967. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at the NIH, the University of Vienna under Dr. Klaus Wolff, and the UCSF in cell biology under Dr. Daniel Friend. He then received his clinical training in dermatology at Harvard, becoming board certified in Dermatology in 1973 and in Dermatopathology in 1979. Dr. Elias has trained numerous students from all over the world in stratum corneum morphology and in methods to elucidate its biological functions. Several of his post-doctoral fellows have become leaders in the field in their respective countries, where barrier research groups have since been established and are now flourishing, such as in South Korea, Germany and China.

 

 

Herman Beerman Lecture
The Herman Beerman Lecture is given by a distinguished medical scholar at a scientific session of the Society's Annual Meeting.  Traditionally, lectures from fields other than dermatology are chosen in order to give meeting attendees the opportunity to learn about scientific advances in other fields.  This award is given in recognition of Dr. Herman Beerman's long and devoted service to the Society and his efforts to secure for it a position of respect in the scientific  community.  Dr. Beerman served as President of the Society for Investigative Dermatology in 1947 and held the post of Secretary-Treasurer from 1950 to 1966.  Click here for list of past award recipients. 

2011 Award Recipient:  Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, PhD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

Super-resolution Imaging with Photoactivatable Flourescent Proteins

Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz is Chief of the Organelle Biology Section in the Cell Biology and Metabolism Branch of the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Lippincott-Schwart’s research uses live cell imaging approaches to analyze the spatio-temporal behavior and dynamic interactions of molecules in cells. Her work covers a vast range of cell biological topics, including protein transport and the cytoskeleton, organelle assembly and disassembly, and the generation of cell polarity.

  

 

   

Naomi M. Kanof Lecture
The Naomi M. Kanof Clinical Investigator Award honors an individual making significant contributions to the improvement of health through clinical research.  Clinical research is broadly defined as any scientific endeavor with a direct application to improving the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of clinical disease.  This investigator work can be based either in the laboratory and should be implemented or just ready to be implemented in clinical practice.  It is hoped that the presentation of this award each year will focus attention of present and future researchers on the importance of clinical investigation. This award was established to honor the memory of Naomi Kanof, MD, who died in 1988 at the age of 76. During her distinguished career, she served as second editor of the Journal of Investigative Dermatology from 1949 to 1967 and was chosen as an Honorary Member of the Society for Investigative Dermatology in 1979.  Click here for list of past award recipients.                                                                                                              

2011 Award Recipient:  Sir David Lane, PhD, p53 Laboratory-Singapore, Immunos, Singapore

 

How p53 works

 

Dr. Lane is Chief Scientist of A*STAR and Director of the p53 Laboratory, which primarily focuses on research on p53 using both mammalian and zebrafish systems. He is one of the scientists credited with the landmark discovery of cancer gene p53 in 1979. p53, called the “Guardian of the Genome” is considered the most significant of all the genes altered in cancer cells because mutations of the gene are known to cause almost 50% of all human cancers.

 

 

Eugene M. Farber Lecture
The Eugene M. Farber lecture is presented at the Society's Annual Meeting by an investigator whose work is relevant to expanding our insights into the pathophysiology and treatment of psoriasis.  This fund was established by the family of Eugene M. Farber, MD, who devoted his scientific career to understanding the pathogenesis of psoriasis.  Dr. Farber served for 36 years as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Dermatology at Stanford and the President of the Psoriasis Research Instiutute of Palo Alto.  His lifelong passion was to expand our understanding of skin diseases and to improve treatment based upon this expanded knowledge.  Dr. Farber was the first investigator to recognize the need to examine genetic contributioins to psoriasis.  In addition, his work played an important role in the development of novel psoriasis therapies and stimuled interest in developing research programs focused on psoriasis.  Click here for list of past award recipients. 

                                                                                                 

2011 Award Recipient:  Kevin Cooper, MD, University Hospitals of Cleveland / Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

Psoriasis: Narrowing the Immunologic Target  

Dr. Cooper is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Dermatology at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), and Director of the NIAMS Skin Diseases Research Center and NIAMS Psoriasis Center for Research at CWRU. He is also Director of the Murdough Family Center for Psoriasis at University Hospitals Case Medical Center. His research interests include Psoriasis, Atopic Dermatitis, Immunobiology, Photobiology, Autoimmunity, UV and Solar Effects, Immunomodulatory Therapy.

 

 

William Montagna Lecture 
The William Montagna Lecture is given annually at the Society's Annual Meeting.  This award is intended to honor and reward young active investigators.  Primary emphasis is given to researchers in skin biology.  In addition to many awards and honors, Dr. Montagna served as President in 1970 and Vice President in 1969 of the Society for Investigative Dermatology. He received the Stephen Rothman Memorial Award for lifetime contributions to investigative dermatology in 1972. Dr. Albert Kligman proposed in 1974 that this lectureship be established to honor Dr. Montagna and contributed the first funds for this purpose.  Click here for list of past award recipients.  

2011 Award Recipient:  John McGrath, MD, Kings College London, Guys Hospital London, United Kingdom

Developing New Therapies for Epidermolysis Bullosa: The Hard Graft  

John McGrath is Professor of Molecular Dermatology and head of the Genetic Skin Disease Group at St. John’s Institute of Dermatology. Dr. McGrath’s research interests include discovering what causes inherited skin diseases, how these abnormalities disrupt skin structure and function, and what clinician-scientists can do to develop new clinical and therapeutic benefits for people with genetic skin diseases.

 

 

Julius Stone Lecture
The Julius Stone Lectureship sponsors an immunology lecture or session at the Society's Annual Meeting.  The lectureship is intended to promote the advancement of knowledge in immunology as it relates to the skin and skin disease.  The Lectureship may be given as a single presentation at a Plenary Session or to help support a multi-lecture session.  The Lectureship is intended to honor Dr. Julius Stone, whose great commitment to the application of new principles of immunology to the benefit of patients with skin disorders is recognized by this award. The Lectureship was originally funded by the American Dermatologic Society for Allergy and Immunology and by Dr. Stone and his family.  The Society has provided matching funds. Dr. Stone founded and led the ADSAI in support of scientific meetings on Dermatologic Immunology and Allergy.  Click here for list of past award recipients.

2011 Award Recipient:  Casey Weaver, MD, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama 

The Interplay of IL-17- and IFNg-producing CD4 T cells in Immune-mediated Inflammation

 

Dr. Weaver is Professor of Pathology at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. His lab studies the mechanisms that control T cell development during an immune response, using transgenic mouse models and molecular biological approaches to define the signals that control the fate of the T cell and to understand how alternative T cell developmental pathways lead to distinct immune responses.

 

  

State-of-the-Art Lecturers 

State-of-the-Art Plenary Lecture I

How Skin-Resident Dendritic Cell Subsets Control Immune Responses

 

Dan Kaplan, MD/PhD

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

 

Dr. Kaplan is Assistant Professor of Dermatology at the University of Minnesota. His research focus is the early events after antigen exposure in the skin that allows for the development of appropriate immune responses to pathogens while limiting responses directed against commensal organisms, concentrating on two opposing dendritic cell

(DC) subsets in the skin.

 

 

State-of-the-Art Plenary Lecture II

Towards Deciphering the Genetic Landscape of Melanoma

 

Yardena Samuels, PhD

National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 

 

Dr. Samuels is Head of the Molecular Cancer Genetics Section at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Samuels is using high-throughput DNA sequencing to search for additional mutated genes in melanoma. She is currently examining the genes encoding tyrosine and serine protein kinases, which play important roles in regulating the cellular events that lead to tumor formation. These genes are associated with a variety of human cancers and may be targets for therapeutic intervention.  

 

 

 

State-of-the-Art Plenary Lecture III

Defining the Cell Lineages at the Origin of Skin Cancers

 

Cedric Blanpain, MD/PhD

Interdisciplinary Research Institute, Brussels, Belgium

EMBO Young Investigator Lecturer

 

Dr. Blanpain holds a tenure position at the Belgian National Research Scientific Fund at the Interdisciplinary Research Institute, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. His research focuses on the mechanism regulating stem cell fate decision during embryonic development and tissue homeostasis and the implication of stem cell during cancer development.

 

 

 

 

State-of-the-Art Plenary Lecture IV

Intrinsic and Extrinsic Regulation of Skin Stem Cells    

 

Valerie Horsley, PhD

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

 

Dr. Horsley is an Assistant Professor at Yale University Her lab studies the cellular and molecular mechanisms that control stem cell activity and function within epithelia, the tissues that line internal organs and outer surfaces. The lab uses the mouse as a genetic model system to study how adult stem cells within epithelial tissues maintain tissue homeostasis, wound healing and can contribute to cancer formation.

 

 

  

Stephen Rothman Memorial Award

The SID's highest award presented for distinguished service to cutaneous medicine.

2011 Award Recipient:  John Stanley, MD (University of Pennsylvania)