Advances in Transplant Dermatology

Transplantation today.- De novo malignancies after solid organ transplantation: focus on viral infection.- Update on benign and inflammatory skin disease secondary to transplant medication.- Update on photoprotection and sunscreen use in solid organ transplant recipients.- Update on our understanding of HPV as a risk factor for cutaneous SCC in organ transplant recipients.- Advances in our understanding of immunosuppression as a risk factor for cutaneous SCC: evidence for revision of immunosuppressive therapy.- Advances in photodynamic therapy for the treatment of malignant and pre-malignant lesions in transplant dermatology.- Update on staging, definition and chemoprevention of 'high risk SCC' in organ transplant recipients.- Advances in management of 'high risk SCC' in organ transplant recipients.- Advances in management of Merkel cell carcinoma in organ transplant recipients; role of polyoma virus and immunosuppression.- Update in melanoma in organ transplant recipients.- Update on unusual tumors in organ transplant recipients.

Fiona O'Reilly Zwald is an Assistant Professor and Attending Physician in the Department of Dermatology at Emory University School of Medicine, The Emory Clinic, Atlanta, Georgia, where she also holds a secondary appointment as Assistant Professor, Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery. Dr. Zwald trained at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ireland, gaining her MD in 1990 and her MRCPI (Member of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland) in 1993. She obtained certification from the American Academy of Dermatology in 2001, with recertification in 2009. Since 2009 Dr. Zwald has been a member of the Executive Board of Directors of the International Transplant Skin Cancer Collaborative, and she is currently President-elect (2012-2014) of the organization. She is also Vice-Chair of the American College of Mohs Surgery Scientific Committee and a member of the Steering Committee, Procedural Dermatology, of the Association of Professors of Dermatology. Dr. Zwald is a member of the editorial boards of Clinical and Experimental Dermatology, the American Journal of Transplantation, and the Archives of Dermatology (for which she is Co-Editor of the Practice Gap Section). Her research focus is targeted towards a better understanding of the pathogenesis of aggressive skin cancer in the high-risk solid organ transplant and otherwise immunosuppressed population.

Marc D. Brown, MD, is Professor of Dermatology, Oncology, and Otolaryngology, University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York. Since 1993 he has been Director of the Division of Dermatologic Surgery, Oncology, and Mohs Surgery at the Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester. In 1998 he was also appointed Director of the Multidisciplinary Melanoma Practice at Strong Memorial Hospital. Dr. Brown is a Diplomate of the American Board of Dermatology and the National Board of Medical Examiners, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology, the American College of