5 Days in Hawaii: The Winter Clinical Hawaii Dermatology Conference

The 5-day CME course kicks off its 22^nd year on the Big Island over President’s Day Weekend and runs from February 15th to the 19^th. The topics to be covered will fall under medical, surgical and cosmetic dermatology and sessions will focus on sending attendees home with new knowledge on the latest advances in patient management.

For primary care clinicians interested in the newest approaches to treatment for atopic dermatitis, there will be sessions like Rash Decisions: The Great Debate between Biologic versus JAK inhibitor for Atopic Dermatitis that parse the pros and cons of each class and how to approach patient selection. Sessions on treatment for acne include So Many Topicals, So Little Time: Pearls on Selecting Among Acne Topical Therapies, and Clinical Pearls and Therapeutic Wisdom in Acne and Rosacea. For clinicians seeing patients with psoriasis, and in-depth seminar will cover Nonsteroidal Topical Management of Psoriasis: A Continuing Evolution of Formulations. There are also brief sessions on Photoprotection: Updates in Safety and Regulation and What's New and Hot in Cosmeceuticals.

Faculty for the Winter Clinical are from the pantheon of physician scientists and clinicians in dermatology and represent a range of subspecialties, including Mark Lebwohl, MD, of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai, in New York, April Armstrong, MD, MPH, of UCLA, in Los Angeles, Linda Stein Gold, MD, of Henry Ford Health in Detroit, MI, and David Cohen, MD, MPH, of NYU Langone Health in New York, NY.

If you can’t make the trip this year, the 2025 Winter Clinical Hawaii conference provides an option for virtual registration and offers a separate virtual agenda with times noted in Pacific and Eastern Standard hours.

Keep an eye on this space for the next 5 days for updates on the science and maybe on the sun.