Program

8:00AM

Registration / Networking

9:00AM

Product Innovation Boot Camp

Chair
  • Daniel Piacquadio, MD, FAAD
  • Founder, Chief Executive Officer and President , Therapeutics, Inc.
Presenters
  • Tony Andrasfay
  • Vice President, Clinical Development , Therapeutics, Inc.
  • Bob Gauthier, MS
  • Vice President, Product Development , Therapeutics, Inc.
9:50AM

Transition to Main Program

10:00AM

Welcome

10:05AM

Featured Speaker

  • Elaine Fuchs, PhD
  • Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute , Rockefeller University
10:30AM

Session 1 - MAGIC WAND℠

Chair
  • Rox Anderson, MD, FAAD
  • Professor , Harvard Medical School ; Director , Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital
Presenters
  • Lilit Garibyan, MD, PhD, FAAD
  • Assistant Professor , Harvard Medical School
  • Physician-Scientist , Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Sally Gottesman, MBA
  • Co-Founder , Moving Traditions and Ritualwell.org
  • Kachiu Lee, MD, MPH, FAAD
  • Assistant Professor , Brown University
  • Joshua Owen, MD, PhD
  • Dermatology Resident, Feinberg School of Medicine , Northwestern University
  • Adam Raff, MD, PhD, FAAD
  • Instructor , Harvard Medical School ; Physician-Scientist , Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Iris Rubin, MD
  • Founder & Chief Medical Officer , Clarity Cosmetics, Inc.
  • David T. Woodley, MD
  • Professor and Emeritus Founding Chair, USC Department of Dermatology, The Keck School of Medicine , University of Southern California
11:30AM

Featured Sponsor

  • Apostolos Pappas, PhD
  • Head of Program , Nestlé Skin Health
  • Warren J. Winkelman, MD, PhD, MBA, FAAD, FRCPC
  • Senior Medical Director & Head of Medical Innovation - SHIELD , Nestlé Skin Health
11:40AM

Lunch

12:25PM

Featured Speaker

  • Michele De Luca, MD
  • Director, Centre for Regenerative Medicine “Stefano Ferrari” , University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
12:50

Session 2 - What's the Future

Chair
  • Angela Christiano, PhD, FACMG
  • Vice-Chair of Research, Departments of Dermatology and Genetics & Development , Columbia University ; Immediate Past President , Society of Investigative Dermatology
  • David E. Fisher, MD, PhD
  • Chief, Department of Dermatology; Director, Melanoma Program, MGH Cancer Center; Director, Cutaneous Biology Research Center , Massachusetts General Hospital ; Edward Wigglesworth Professor of Dermatology , Harvard Medical School
  • William Lowry, PhD
  • Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology , University of California at Los Angeles
  • Peter Marinkovich, MD
  • Associate Professor of Dermatology , Stanford University
1:35PM

Featured Sponsor

  • Michael L. Sierra, Ph.D.
  • Vice President , LEO Science & Tech Hub
1:45PM

Networking Break

2:20PM

Session 3: Company Spotlight

AnaptysBio -
  • Hamza Suria, BSc, MS, MBA
  • President & Chief Executive Officer , Anaptysbio
Azitra -
  • Travis Whitfill, MPH
  • Founder and Chief Science Officer , Azitra
Foamix Pharmaceuticals -
  • Iain Stuart, PhD
  • Senior Vice President, Research & Development , Foamix Pharmaceuticals
La Jolla NanoMedical -
  • Arisa E. Ortiz, MD
  • Medical Director , La Jolla NanoMedical
Tioga Pharmaceuticals, Inc. -
  • Stuart Collinson, PhD, MBA
  • Executive Chairman , Tioga Pharmaceuticals
Vidac Pharma -
  • Oren Becker, PhD
  • President and Chief Executive Officer , Vidac Pharmaceuticals
3:25PM

Featured Sponsor

  • Raymond A. Miller, JD
  • Partner and Co-Chair, Intellectual Property Department , Pepper Hamilton LLP
3:35PM

Session 4: My Stories - Dermatology Product Innovator Speakers and their Success Stories

Chair
  • Seth Orlow, MD, PhD, FAAD
  • Senior Advisor , Pharus Advisors, LLC
  • Professor & Chair of Dermatology , NYU School of Medicine
  • Eugene A. Bauer, MD, FAAD
  • Founder and Chief Medical Officer , Dermira
  • Angela Christiano, PhD, FACMG
  • Vice-Chair of Research, Departments of Dermatology and Genetics & Development , Columbia University ; Immediate Past President , Society of Investigative Dermatology
  • Richard Gallo, MD, PhD
  • Distinguished Professor and Chairman, Department of Dermatology , University of California, San Diego
  • Stuart D. Shanler, MD, FAAD, FACMS
  • Chief Scientific Officer , Aclaris Therapeutics
4:35PM

Summary/Close

Advancing Innovation in Dermatology, Inc. is a registered IRS 501(c)(3) organization designated as a public charity in the United States.

The 4th Annual Dermatology Innovation Forum

an Advancing Innovation in Dermatology, Inc. conference
  • February 15, 2018, 8:00AM – 4:30PM
  • Manchester Grand Hyatt
    1 Market Place, San Diego, CA
Advancing Innovation in Dermatology, Inc. is a registered IRS 501(c)(3) organization designated as a public charity in the United States.