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   13 Mar 2023 · 28 min

   Burnout: Is Personal Happiness the Answer?

   Physician burnout remains a conversation, and the pandemic dramatically changed the landscape for dermatologists—for better and for worse. Omaha, NE-based Joel Schlessinger, MD, who serves as Chief Cosmetic Surgery Editor of Practical Dermatology® speaks with Las Vegas-based dermatologist H.L. Greenberg, MD, about the importance of physicians finding “multiple sources of happiness” in this episode of Practical Dermatology: The Podcast.

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   1 Feb 2023 · 16 min

   Closing Gaps in Care for People of Color with Psoriatic Disease

   Black, Hispanic, Asian, and other people of color with plaque psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis often face delayed diagnosis, misdiagnosis, and limited access to testing, treatment, and care. Determi-Nation, a new initiative sponsored by Janssen Pharmaceuticals, aims to change this. Patient advocate Alisha Bridges, Grace Wright, MD, PhD, president of the Association of Women in Rheumatology in New York City, and Naureen Kabani, MD, a rheumatologist with SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn, New York, discuss how this new program will help close gaps and improve access to care for people of color with…

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   10 Jan 2023 · 25 min

   Weighing the Role of Network Meta-analysis for Choosing Biologic Therapies in Psoriatic Disease

   There’s no paucity of studies for biologic therapies used to treat psoriatic disease, but the number of head-to-head trials comparing these agents is limited. Enter network meta-analysis, a statistical methodology that has emerged over the past few years to compare medication. Philip Mease, MD, a clinical professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine and director of rheumatology research at the Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, and Dr. Wolf-Henning Boehncke, chair of the division of dermatology and venereology at Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland, and full professor at…

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   13 Dec 2022 · 30 min

   ASLMS New Beginnings Initiative

   In 2014, the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery started its New Beginnings initiative. Initially launched to benefit cancer survivors, ASLMS physicians volunteered to remove radiation tattoos pro bono. Recently, the ASLMS, under the leadership of its president Paul Friedman, MD, expanded the philanthropic campaign to create the New Beginnings Branding Tattoo Removal Program and partnered with the National Trafficking Sheltered Alliance to connect board-certified physicians with sex trafficking survivors for pro bono laser removal of branding tattoos. Alisha Merlo, the Executive…

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   14 Nov 2022 · 27 min

   Advancing Digital Medicine in Dermatology

   The Digital Medicine Society (DiME) is a global nonprofit dedicated to advancing the ethical, effective, equitable, and safe use of digital medicine to redefine health care and improve lives. DiME recently released a new set of resources, available at www.dimesociety.org/access-resources/, to advance the use of digitally measured nocturnal scratch as a meaningful endpoint for atopic dermatitis. These tools, along with DiMe’s previous work to support digital clinical measures, lay the groundwork for future use of the measure in clinical research, technology development, and reimbursement…