Department of Veterans Affairs

Medical Center

One Veterans Drive Dept 111K

Minneapolis, MN 55417

Dear Colleagues: September 25, 2017

We look forward to seeing you at the winter Minnesota Dermatological Society Meeting at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System Medical Center on Friday November 17, 2017! For your convenience, a map is enclosed. Please park in the visitor lot and enter through the visitor entrance. Go to Specialty Clinic 2D which is on the second floor. Patient viewing is from 1-2PM. Patient discussion, guest lecture, and business meeting will take place in the main auditorium on the ground floor off of the atrium with the large flag. There will also be a MOC session at noon.

The MOC Session will be “Procedural Dermatology”, led by Whitney D. Tope, Mphil, MD.

To Register Visit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HZSJH5R.

Our guest presentation will be "Thinking Outside The Box: Radical Therapeutic Pearls," by guest speaker Theodore Rosen, MD.

Dr. Rosen is Professor of Dermatology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. He is Chief of Dermatology at the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Houston, TX. He received his MD from the University of Michigan, completed his Internship at the University of Alabama, and his Dermatology Residency at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Rosen is also the Vice President-Elect of the American Academy of Dermatology.

Half of the patient presentations should come from community members!!! Please help!

Please email or call 612-725-2236 with the following information:

patient name, address and phone number

diagnosis

histopathology (yes or no; if yes, please provide accession numbers)

physician name

The protocol can be faxed 612-725-2231 or emailed to the address above. Please include:

patient initials and age

history/ family history

physical exam findings, pertinent laboratory findings

histopathology

diagnosis, reason for presentation

3-5 references

Pathology: please call Kaye at 612-725-2236 for directions on where to send pathology slides

Deadline for patient protocols: Friday, Nov 3, 2017

Thank you for helping to make this a great meeting!

Neal Foman, MD MS, Andrea Bershow, MD, Noah Goldfarb, MD, Erin Warshaw, MD, MS