agenda

Saturday September 6 2008

8.30 am – 9.00 am
REGISTRATION

9.00 am – 10.30 am
WELCOME

John Auld, Chair, Queensland Skin and Cancer Foundation
H. Peter Soyer, Chair, Dermatology Group, The University of Queensland

INTRODUCTION to DERMOSCOPY

• Why Dermoscopy?
  H. Peter Soyer, Brisbane
• Basic Dermoscopic Structures and their Correlates (including Histopathology and Confocal)
  Rainer Hofmann-Wellenhof, Graz, Austria. H. Peter Soyer, Brisbane

11.00 am – 12.30 pm
CLASSICAL PATTERN ANALYSIS

• First Step – Non-Melanocytic Skin Lesions
• Second Step – The Many Faces of Nevi
• Second Step – The Many Faces of Melanomas
  H. Peter Soyer, Brisbane. Rainer Hofmann-Wellenhof, Graz

1.30 pm – 3.00 pm
SPECIAL LESIONS & SPECIAL LOCATIONS I

• Test the Threshold: Biopsy or Follow-up
  Jim Muir, Brisbane. H. Peter Soyer, Brisbane
• Acral and Nail Lesions
  H. Peter Soyer, Brisbane. Rainer Hofmann-Wellenhof, Graz, Austria

3:30 pm – 5.00 pm
SPECIAL LESIONS & SPECIAL LOCATIONS II

• Hypomelanotic Melanoma
  John Kelly, Melbourne
• Facial Lesions
  Alex Chamberlain, Melbourne
  
• The Red Scaly Plaque
  Yan Pan, Melbourne

7.00 pm
DERMOSCOPY BY THE BEACH DINNER
At the Courtyard by Marriott Surfers Paradise

Sunday September 7 2008

8.30 am – 9:30 am
MOLE MONITORING

• Monitoring of Nevi in Populations of High Risk Patients
  Martin Haskett, Melbourne
  
• Responder Session
  John Kelly, Melbourne. Martin Haskett, Melbourne.
  H. Peter Soyer, Brisbane
  

10.00 am – 11.30 am
REFLECTANCE CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY

• Introduction and Practical Examples
  Rainer Hofmann-Wellenhof, Graz, Austria

WHAT'S NEW IN DERMOSC0PY 2008 -- I

• The Articles that Interested Me Most this Year
  Alan Chamberlain, Melbourne. Martin Haskett, Melbourne. John Kelly, Melbourne
  

12.00 pm – 1:30 pm
WHAT'S NEW IN DERMOSC0PY 2008 -- II

• The Articles that Interested Me Most this Year
  Rainer Hofmann-Wellenhof, Graz, Austria. Jim Muir, Brisbane.
  H. Peter Soyer, Brisbane

UNKNOWS FOR THE EXPERTS

Responder Session – Participants are encouraged to bring
their own slides with or without a final histological answer

• Cases from Graz
  Rainer Hofmann-Wellenhof, Graz, Austria
• Cases from Melbourne
  John Kelly, Melbourne. Alex Chamberlain, Melbourne
• Cases from Brisbane
  Jim Muir, Brisbane. H. Peter Soyer, Brisbane

1.30 pm
MEETING CLOSED