2023 Integrative Dermatology Symposium
Event Schedule
Reno, Nevada + Virtual | October 27-29, 2023
Reno, Nevada + Virtual | October 27-29, 2023
DAY ONE: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2023
Faculty: Hadar Lev-Tov, MD MAS & Steven Daveluy, MD
Moderator: Sarah Alsager
Panelists: Mark Messina, PhD MS, Raja Sivamani, MD MS AP
Description: In addition to existing research suggesting even modest amounts of soy foods favorably affect several skin parameters, a newly conducted randomized controlled trial greatly adds to the evidence that soy foods benefit the skin. Hear from the principal investigator of this research, Raja Sivamani, MD, MS, AP, about the findings which demonstrate the positive impact soy protein and soybean isoflavones can have on wrinkle depth, hydration, and pigmentation.
The impact of soy foods and soybean components such as isoflavones on skin health is just one of the many areas that have been rigorously researched over the past 30 years. In fact, more than 40,000 soy-related peer-reviewed medical and scientific articles on soy have been published during this time. But soy is not without controversy, as questions have arisen such as “does soy affect hormones?” and “will soy increase risk of breast cancer?” and “does soy cause allergic reactions?” Mark Messina, PhD, MS, an internationally recognized soy expert, will present the science on these topics and more.
This session is provided by SNI Global, with support from U.S. Soy.
Speaker: Joseph Alban, DAc MS LAc
Description: This talk will introduce participants to the basic concepts of TCM in the context of nutrition. Understanding the nature of the foods can be helpful in understanding why some foods may aggravate skin conditions in certain patients. Nutritional principles, as an extension of herbal medicine, are based upon the foods’ essential taste, temperature, and function. Chinese medicine also incorporates many functional foods and spices that can be added to the diet for overall health or specific skin conditions.
Learning Objectives:
Speaker: Lienna May, MS CNS LDN
Description: Explore the fascinating link between acne and optimal blood sugar levels. Participants will be able to learn the connections between elevated glucose levels and inflammation that contribute to acne development and exacerbation. We’ll explore how cutting-edge continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) technology serves as a pivotal tool in understanding and managing these dynamics. Join us to learn evidence-based strategies that empower individuals to take charge of their skin health through informed dietary choices and glucose management, ultimately revealing the path to radiant and clear skin.
Learning Objectives:
Faculty: Chef Kimber Dean and Raja Sivamani, MD MS AP
Description: This session will highlight the clinical evidence for the gut and skin benefits of including certain foods in the diet. This session will also feature a chef demonstrating several recipes incorporating these foods during the presentation.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will identify the clinical evidence for the inclusion of healthy foods into a diet and how this impacts skin conditions like acne or hidradenitis suppurativa.
Participants will diagram recipes that can be utilized to create practical and great testing options to include healthy foods into the diet.
Moderator: Steven Daveluy, MD
Panelists: Asmi Sanghvi, MD; Joseph Alban, DAc MS LAc; Lienna May, MS CNS LDN
Description: This panel will bring together skin care experts across disciplines to highlight the diverse perspectives regarding the impact of nutrition on the skin and how to coordinate care to provide dermatology patients with nutritional support.
Learning Objectives:
Speaker: Raja Sivamani, MD MS AP
Description: It is well established that nutrition influences hair loss and hair condition, as illustrated by the hair problems observed in disorders caused by malnutrition or specific restrictive diets. Vegans, vegetarians, pescatarians, and semi-vegetarians are associated with vitamin deficiencies that have been linked to changes in hair quality and ultimately hair loss. In addition to nutrient-induced hair thinning, these demographics are susceptible to other factors such as microbiome changes, stress, hormonal triggers, inflammation, oxidative stress, and biological aging which have compounding influence on the hair follicle.
Here we present a multi-targeted solution, one that in addition to supporting the nutritional status and targeting hormonal triggers (DHT), also addresses inflammatory markers, psycho-emotional stress, oxidative stress from external factors, and more.
In this presentation:
Speaker: Jason Hawkes, MD MS FAAD
Description: The complex interplay between the immune response, the gut, and chronic diseases has long fascinated (and perplexed) healthcare providers and scientists. Several immune-related skin diseases have an association with the microbiome and gut-related conditions or symptoms. This association includes psoriatic disease, hidradenitis suppurativa, and atopic dermatitis, which will be discussed in this presentation along with some of the key principles that may explain the link between these conditions, the gut, and aberrant immune response underlying those chronic inflammatory processes.
Learning Objectives:
Speaker: James Song, MD
Description: Topical corticosteroids have long been the mainstay for the treatment of inflammatory skin disease but is not recommended for continuous usage due to the risk of skin thinning, HPA axis suppression and tachyphylaxis. Current non-steroidal creams are limited by modest efficacy, tolerability, and black box warnings. Therefore, there is a significant unmet need for steroid-free topicals that are effective, safe, and well-tolerated. Herein, we will review the recently approved topical steroid alternatives for treating plaque psoriasis.
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Speaker: Ammar Ahmed, MD
Description: Integrative treatment modalities are commonly sought and utilized by individuals dealing with vitiligo. This session will review the evidence supporting various integrative and alternative treatments for vitiligo. Topical, oral, and surgical integrative modalities will be covered.
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Moderator: Hadar Lev-Tov, MD MAS
Panelists: DeJarra Sims, ND, David Euler, LAp, Jason Hawkes, MD MS FAAD
Description: In this session, a panel of experts will discuss cases in which integrative approaches are utilized to manage common skin diseases such as psoriasis and atopic dermatitis.
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Speaker: Jessica Iclisoy
Description: From growing many of the botanicals for California Baby products on her 100-acre certified organic farm in Santa Barbara County, California, to manufacturing them in her FDA registered & certified organic facility, Jessica Iclisoy has created a sustainable brand by controlling ingredient integrity from seed to bottle.
DAY TWO: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2023
Speaker: Hemali Gunt, PhD
Description: Cleansing is the foundation to every skin care routine. During this product theatre with Hemali Gunt, Ph.D. of Burt’s Bees, we will explore the cleansing mechanisms, impact of surfactants and clinical effectiveness of gentle cleansers in supporting the integrity of the skin moisture barrier. Join us to learn how nature-based cleansers in their various forms can be therapeutic concomitants in dermatologic conditions.
Speaker: Michelle Jeffries, DO
Description: The cells in your body can tell time, including your skin cells, using clock genes. Integrating “the alignment of time” into our skin health recommendations is a key missing piece in skin health. Learn how to optimize your skin health and overall health by aligning your sleep cycle, skin care routine, and cortisol rhythm with your clock genes.
Learning Objectives:
Speaker: Jason Hawkes, MD MS FAAD
Description: The role of type 2 inflammation in the pathogenesis of itch, atopic dermatitis, and prurigo nodularis has become a focus of new emerging therapies in the area. The role of type 2 inflammation and the approaches to treatment from an integrative perspective will be reviewed.
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Speaker: Raja Sivamani, MD MS AP
Description: The gut is important to general health in many medical perspectives and diseases of the gut are commonly associated with skin diseases. This lecture will explore how the health of the gut can be assessed and how this may impact different interventions to improve gut health.
Learning Objectives:
Moderator: Raja Sivamani, MD MS AP
Panelists: Katherine Varman, MD FAAD, Lakshi Alderdge, MSN ANP-BC DCNP FAANP, Michael Traub, ND
Description: This panel will explore several cases where the role of gut testing and management will be considered. The practical use of gut microbiome testing will be discussed in the context of clinical case discussions. The role of short chain fatty acids will be explored in relation to inflammatory skin diseases.
Learning Objectives:
Speaker: Phillip Werschler, MD
Description: We will review the impact potential of higher levels of skin clearance for patients with plaque psoriasis, explore head-to-head efficacy data against Otezla (apremilast) from the IMMpulse trial in moderate plaque psoriasis and analyze SKYRIZI’s safety profile in moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis, including data from the IMMpulse trial in patients with moderate disease.
Speaker: Katherine Varman, MD
Description: Adequate sun exposure is important for human health and wellness, but overexposure contributes to cutaneous carcinogenesis and skin aging. Innate photoprotective mechanisms include quenching free radicals and minimizing oxidative stress, repairing damaged DNA, and preventing photo-induced immunosuppression. People with sun sensitivity or a high risk of skin cancer can benefit from supplementing vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients which enhance these photoprotective mechanisms.
Learning Objectives:
Speaker: Steven Daveluy, MD
Description: This session will highlight the impact that diet can have on therapeutic outcomes for dermatologic treatments. This includes isotretinoin for acne, biologics for psoriasis, immunotherapy for melanoma, and more.
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Speaker: Anna Cabeca, DO
Description: Menopause is a natural process that cannot be avoided, but we can improve our experience by making lifestyle changes such as focusing on a healthy diet and exercise.
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Moderator: Steven Daveluy, MD
Panelists: Emma Norton, ND; Joseph Alban, DAc MS LAc; Stacy McClure, MD
Description: This session will explore how an integrative approach, including nutritional support, can complement medical management of skin disease to provide patients with long-term control of their skin disease, while optimizing their overall health and well-being
Learning Objectives:
Speaker: Neal Barnard, MD FACC
Description: Hormonal problems are pervasive in medical practice. Diabetes, hot flashes, menstrual pain, fertility issues, breast cancer, prostate cancer, and many other conditions are driven to a great extent by hormonal issues—hormone levels that are too high, too low, or shifting too much. Surprisingly, studies show that hormones can be altered by simple diet changes, often leading to life-changing benefits. This session will help clinicians put these findings to work and provide the evidence base clinicians need. A case in point: Type 2 diabetes begins with insulin resistance. In turn, insulin resistance is caused by the accumulation of lipid particles in muscle and liver cells. While this is well-known to researchers, it is largely unknown to medical practitioners and the lay public. Nonetheless, once one understands how insulin function can be altered, diabetes itself can be greatly improved and sometimes eliminated by diet changes alone. A second example: As many as 80% of postmenopausal women in North America have hot flashes. A growing understanding of how foods alter hormone function has led to clinical trials putting simple diet interventions to the test, yielding remarkable relief for many women. Menopause is also a time when other health concerns arise, including the risk of heart disease, breast cancer, diabetes, and persistent weight challenges. Food choices influence each of these. Nutrition research is giving clinicians new insights into the role of diet in other hormone-related conditions. This session will empower clinicians and their patients with new tools for altering hormones naturally and improving health.
Learning Objectives:
Speaker: Raja Sivamani, MD MS AP
Description: A Welcome from Microbiome Labs
DAY THREE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2023
Moderator: Raja Sivamani, MD MS AP
Panelists: Apple Bodemer, MD; Michael Traub, ND, Jonette Keri, MD PhD
Description: This panel will focus on clinical cases of acne and rosacea and discuss how interdisciplinary teams may collaborate to develop integrative treatment protocols.
Learning Objectives:
Speaker: Jonette Keri, MD PhD
Description: Evidence based review on therapeutics will include discussion of prescription medications as well as over the dietary and over the counter medications. Treatment peals will be highlighted for easy reference, including for the specific population of the adult female acne patients of childbearing potential.
Learning Objectives:
Speaker: Shasa Hu, MD
Description: The cosmeceutical industry is at $20 billion in annual revenue and continues to grow as more people are interested in antiaging, especially in products with “natural” and botanical extracts. To help you navigate through the fads and facts of botanicals and skincare, we will review key mechanisms in extrinsic aging, critically discuss botanicals with evidence-based claims, and share tips on how to design a personalized skincare regimen incorporating botanical actives based on skin types.
Learning Objectives:
Speaker: Apple Bodemer, MD
Description: Hair health is a common concern among patients and includes both inflammatory and non-inflammatory forms of alopecia. This session will review emerging therapies for alopecia areata, androgenic alopecia, and scarring alopecias.
Learning Objectives:
Speaker: Hadar Lev-Tov, MD
Description: Hidradenitis suppurativa is a chronic inflammatory condition marked by recurrent inflammatory nodules and abscesses that can lead to several scarring. This session will describe the pathophysiology of HS and the emerging medical and surgical therapies. Nutritional recommendations will be reviewed as well.
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Speaker: Natalie Gustafson, PharmD
Description: Compounding allows for greater customization to the patient when compared to standard prescriptions. This lecture will review several topical and oral compounding approaches for aging.
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DAY ONE: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2023
Speaker: Raja Sivamani, MD MS AP
Description: This program describes the efficacy and safety profile of an oral product. You will learn more about the pivotal clinical trials, product function, and patient support services.
Speaker: Raja Sivamani, MD MS AP
Speakers: Steve McGee and Dr. Greg Maguire
Description: We present real-world clinical data on how topically applied stem cell-released molecules can significantly prevent and remediate a number of inflammatory skin conditions, such as melasma, acne, and actinic purpura. The underlying mechanisms of action, involving an exosomal and soluble fraction of proteins and lipids, include growth factors, heat shock proteins, matrix proteins, immune modulators, COX-2 pathway inhibitors, and antioxidants.
Speaker: Raja Sivamani, MD MS AP
Speaker: Raja Sivamani, MD MS AP
Speaker: Jason Hawkes, MD MCR
Description: Please join Sanofi and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for a Disease State Awareness presentation on Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria
Speaker: Raja Sivamani, MD MS AP
Led by: Apple Bodemer, MD & Raja Sivamani, MD MS AP
DAY TWO: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2023
Speaker: Raja Sivamani, MD MS AP
Learning Objectives:
Speaker: David Euler, LAp
Speaker: Judith Hong, MD
Speaker: David Euler, LAp
Speaker: Judith Hong, MD
Speaker: Jessica Iclisoy
Description: From growing many of the botanicals for California Baby products on her 100-acre certified organic farm in Santa Barbara County, California, to manufacturing them in her FDA registered & certified organic facility, Jessica Iclisoy has created a sustainable brand by controlling ingredient integrity from seed to bottle.
Speaker: David Euler, LAp
Speaker: Judith Hong, MD
Speaker: David Euler, LAp
Speaker: Judith Hong, MD
Speakers: Apple Bodemer, MD; Raja Sivamani, MD MS AP
Kingpin VIP Lanes & Lounge in the Grand Bowling Center
Located inside the Grand Sierra Resort & Casino, 2500 E 2nd St, Reno, NV 89595
Hosted by LearnSkin
