2016 NY – Program

1st INTERNATIONAL KELOID SYMPOSIUM at THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY

New York, NY – September 8-9, 2016

Time
Speaker
Title

DAY 1
Thursday, September 8th 2016

Welcome & Introduction
8:45 - 9:00
(8:45 AM-9:00 AM)
James G. Krueger, MD PhD
Michael H. Tirgan, MD &
Ardeshir Bayat, MBBS PhD
Welcome to The Rockefeller University & Opening of the 1st International Keloid Symposium
KEYNOTE
9:00-9:30
(9:00 AM-9:30 AM)
Geoff Gurtner, MD PhD
Stanford University,
California, USA
Mechanotransduction and Raised Skin Scarring
9:30-9:50
(9:30 AM-9:50 AM)
Daniel Siegel, MD
SUNY Downstate Medical Center,
New York, USA
Compensation for Keloid Management in the USA: What, why and how it could be improved
9:50-10:10
(9:50 AM-10:10 AM)
Frank Niessen, MD PhD
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Holland
What We Can Learn from Recurrent Keloid Formation
KEYNOTE
10:10-10:40
(10:10 AM-10:40 AM)
Edward Tredget, MD MSC FRCS(C)
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Hypertrophic Scars

COFFEE

10:40-11.10
(10:40 AM-11.10 AM)

COFFEE BREAK

KEYNOTE
11:10-11:40
(11:10 AM-11:40 AM)
Thomas Mustoe, MD FACS
University of Illinois,
Illinois, USA
New Insights into the Treatment of Hypertrophic Scars
11:40-12:00
(11:40 AM-12:00 PM)
Patricia Danielsen, MD PhD
University of Denmark
Copenhagen, Denmark
Clinical Keloid Scar Disease Trials - Design, Methods and Meaningful Outcomes
12:00-12:20
(12:00 PM-12:20 PM)
Ardeshir Bayat, MBBS, PhD
University of Manchester
Manchester, UK
Keloid scar versus disease: quasi-neoplastic tendencies of cutaneous healing in susceptible individuals
KEYNOTE
12:20-12:50
(12:20 PM-12:50 PM)
Guyan DL Arscott, MD
University of West Indies Kingston, Jamaica
Management of Keloids: Lessons from Jamaica

LUNCH

12:50-13:50
(12:50 PM-1:50 PM)

LUNCH – CRC Cafeteria – Weiss Café

KEYNOTE
13:50-14:20
(1:50 PM-2:20 PM)
Brian Berman, MD PhD
University of Miami,
Florida, USA
Controlling Excessive Scarring and Keloids
14:20-14:40
(2:20 PM-2:40 PM)
Donald Glass, MD PhD
University of Texas Southwestern,
Texas, USA
Overview of the Genetics of Keloid Scars
14:40-15:00
(2:40 PM-3:00 PM)
Jared Jagdeo, MD MS
University California - Davis, California, USA
Pioneering High Fluence Light Emitting Diode-red Light for Keloid Scars: Preclinical and Phase I Clinical Trial Safety Data
15:00-15:20
(3:00 PM-3:20 PM)
Jeremy Brauer, MD
NYU Langone Medical Center,
New York, USA
Use of Lasers in Managing Keloids

COFFEE

15:20- 15:50
(3:20 PM- 3:50 PM)

COFFEE BREAK

15:50- 16:10
(3:50 PM-4:10 PM)
Chandan Sen, PhD
Ohio State University,
Ohio, USA
Non-invasive Non-viral Topical Direct Skin Cell Reprogramming In Vivo
KEYNOTE
16:10-16:40
(4:10 PM-4:40 PM)
Phan Toan Thang, MD PhD
University of Singapore, Singapore
Epidermal Biosignalling as a Novel Target for Keloid Therapy
Interactive Clinical Case Presentations
16:40- 17:30
(4:40 PM-5:30 PM)
Organizing Committee/Invited faculty will deliver educational case presentations
17:30
(5:30 PM)
James G. Krueger, MD PhD
Michael H. Tirgan, MD &
Ardeshir Bayat, MBBS PhD
Closing Remarks for Day One

RECEPTION

17:30-18:30
(5:30 PM-6:30 PM)

ABBY LOUNGE

Time
Speaker
Title

DAY 2
Friday, September 9th 2016

REGISTRATION START
7:45-8:45
(7:45 AM-8:45 AM)
Registration & Set-up of posters,
SPEAKER TALK UPLOAD

BREAKFAST

7:45-8:45
(7:45 AM-8:45 AM)

CRC CAFETERIA

Welcome & Introduction
8:45-9:00
(8:45 AM-9:00 AM)
James G. Krueger, MD PhD
Michael H. Tirgan, MD &
Ardeshir Bayat, MBBS PhD
Welcome and Introduction to Day 2 of 1st International Keloid Symposium
Plenary
9:00-9:40
(9:00 AM-9:40 AM)
Michael Longaker, MD MBA FACS
Stanford University,
California, USA
Identifying a Lineage of Fibroblasts that are a Cellular Culprit for Scarring
9:40-10:00
(9:40 AM-10:00 AM)
Tai-Lan Tuan, PhD
University of Southern
California, USA
Keloid-derived, Plasma/Fibrin-Based Skin Equivalents Generate De Novo Dermal and Epidermal Pathology of Keloid Fibrosis in a Mouse Model
10:00-10:20
(10:00 AM-10:20 AM)
Dorothy Supp, PhD
University of Cincinnati,
Ohio, USA
EMT in Keloids
KEYNOTE
10:20-10:50
(10:20 AM-10:50 AM)
Aziz Ghahary, MSc PhD
University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, Canada
A New Strategy in Preventing Hypertrophic and Keloid Scars

COFFEE

10:50-11:20
(10:50 AM-11:20 AM)

COFFEE BREAK

KEYNOTE
11:20-11:50
(11:20 AM-11:50 AM)
Shirley Russell, PhD
Vanderbilt University,
Tennessee, USA
Keloids: An In-vitro Model of Fibroproliferative Disease
11:50-12:10
(11:50 AM -12:10 PM)
James G. Krueger MD PhD
Rockefeller University
New York, USA
Molecular profiling of keloids in African-American Patients
12:10-12:30
(12:10 PM-12:30 PM)
Christine Theoret, DVM PhD
University of Montreal,
Canada
Regeneration in Other Species: Keloid-like Pathology in Horses
12:30:12:50
(12:30 PM-12:50 PM)
Susan Volk, VMD PhD
University of Pennsylvania,
Pennsylvania, USA
Collagen in the Wound Healing Fibrosis-cancer Triad: Lessons from Animal Models

LUNCH

12:50-13:50
(12:50 PM-1:50 PM)

LUNCH – CRC Cafeteria – Weiss Café

KEYNOTE
13:50-14:20
(1:50 PM-2:20 PM)
George Yang, MD PhD
Stanford University,
California, USA
Targeting Stress Responses for Therapy of Keloids
14:20-14:40
(2:20 PM-2:40 PM
Lamont Jones, MD MBA
Henry Ford Health System,
Michigan, USA
Head & Neck Keloids: Epidemiology and Epigenetic Signatures
14:40-15:10
(2:40 PM-3:10 PM)
Jeanette Wilburn, MSc
Galen Research,
Manchester, UK
Establishing Patient Value in Keloid Intervention

COFFEE

15:10- 15:40
(3:10 PM- 3:40 PM)

COFFEE BREAK

15:40-16:00
(3:40 PM-4:00 PM)
Sundeep Keswani, MD
Texas Children’s Hospital
Texas, USA
Regeneration in Human Foetuses
16:00-16:20
(4:00 PM-4:20 PM)
Michael H. Tirgan, MD
New York, USA
Medical Management of Keloid Disorder
POSTER TALKS
16:20-17:15
(4:20 PM-4:45 PM)
Short oral submitted abstract presentations &
Organizing Committee/Invited faculty will deliver educational case presentations
Closing Ceremony & Closing Remarks
17:15- 17:30
(5:15 PM-5:30 PM)
James G. Krueger, MD PhD
Michael H. Tirgan, MD &
Ardeshir Bayat, MBBS PhD
CLOSING REMARKS

THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION
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