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Practical Symposium | Summer Sharpen Your Dermatology, Clinicopathologic & Business Skills. Join us August 20-23, 2026, in Vail, CO 2025 Document Center CME | MOC | Presentations PS Home CME Certificate | Symposium Evaluation: The CME Evaluation must be completed in order to obtain your earned CME credits. CME Certificate | Symposium Evaluation >> CME Accreditation & Faculty Disclosure Information: Accreditations & Faculty Disclosures >> Self-Assessment | CCP (Continuing Certification Program) / MOC Testing & Certificate Information CCP/MOC/SAM content will be online until 08/15/2025 at 11:59 PM. You must be a 2024 registered attendee to be eligible to earn CCP/MOC/SAM credits. CCP/MOC/SAM competition certificates will be sent on or before 11/01/2025 to attendees who complete the slide review and/or great cases. Digital Slide Review Access closes at 11:59 PM on 8/15/2025. Instructions are provided on the first page of the exam. e-Slides >> Exam >> Great Cases Attendees who attend/participate in the Great Cases sessions will receive CCP/MOC/SAM credits. Presentations All presentations are copyrighted. © Any other use of this educational content without consent from the author/faculty is prohibited. Presentations >> Faculty-approved presentations will be uploaded at the end of the conference. American Board Of Dermatology Disclaimer: Please note that the Practical Symposium is solely responsible for the question content. These questions are not a publication of the ABD, nor has ABD provided information to the Practical Symposium about ABD board exam content. American Board of Pathology MOC Recognition Statement: This activity has been registered to offer credit in the American Board of Pathology’s Continuing Certification program. Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the quiz evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 24 Lifelong Learning (CME) in the American Board of Pathology (ABPath) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC hours equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting MOC credit and recognizing participation. The participant's AB Path# and date of birth (MMDD) are needed to upload the credits.

Matthew Leavitt, DO Matthew Leavitt, DO Faculty Dr. Matt Leavitt is a board-certified dermatologist and the Chairman, Founder, and CEO of Advanced Dermatology & Cosmetic Surgery (ADCS), the country's largest dermatology practice. He is also the Founder and Chairman of Ameriderm, a division that provides billing services for dermatology practices. Dr. Leavitt's vision led to the development of ADCS’s research division which has undertaken numerous studies for major pharmaceutical companies. Additionally, Dr. Leavitt founded Medical Hair Restoration (MHR), which he grew into a national practice for surgical hair transplantation that became the second-largest hair restoration practice in the country. Dr. Leavitt now holds the office of Executive Medical Advisor with Bosley, the largest hair restoration group in the world. Dr. Leavitt is the Chairman of the KCU-GME/ADCS Orlando Dermatology Residency Program. He has served as President of the American Osteopathic College of Dermatology (AOCD) and is a founding father of the American Board of Hair Restoration Surgery, where he served as its first vice president. Dr. Leavitt was also one of the founding members and is currently the president of the Hair Foundation. Dr. Leavitt is presently a Clinical Assistant Professor in Dermatology for the University of Central Florida and Kansas City University. Dr. Leavitt is a member of the advisory boards and a national speaker for Allergan. Formerly he was a member of the advisory boards of Merck and Pfizer (now Johnson & Johnson) and Photomedex, Abbvie, amongst others. Dr. Leavitt has served as a special consultant to Lexington International. Dr. Leavitt is recognized both nationally and internationally as an accomplished author, clinical researcher, surgeon, and lecturer on the subject of hair loss. He has received numerous grants and awards including the prestigious Golden Follicle, from the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgeons. Recently he was featured on the cover and lead article for The Dermatologist. Dr. Leavitt is a founder and 21-time chairman of the annual Live Surgery Workshop. Dr. Leavitt has authored numerous articles for dermatology, hair, and cosmetic journals and chapters in textbooks. He has been interviewed by the print and electronic media including The New York Times, The WSJ, Forbes, Men's Vogue, Parents Magazine, etc. as well as appearing on America's Health Network, CBS's 'The Early Show,' The Learning Channel, NBC iVillage. Through the Leavitt Family Foundation, he has co-sponsored fourteen annual charity golf tournaments benefiting Ronald McDonald House and the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation (CCF). He serves on the CCF boards both nationally and locally. He has been recognized by Ernst & Young as a finalist for Entrepreneur of the Year and received numerous awards from the business community, such as Smart Awards, Florida Medical Business, etc. A graduate of the University of Michigan and Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Dr. Leavitt completed his residency at Ohio University Grandview Medical Center. PS Winter Home

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Aaron Farberg, MD Aaron Farberg, MD Faculty Aaron S. Farberg, M.D. is a double board-certified dermatologist and fellowship-trained Mohs surgeon that specializes in skin cancer, inflammatory diseases, and cosmetic dermatology. Dr. Farberg is a summa cum laude graduate of Emory University and continued his education at the University of Michigan, where he received his medical degree. Dr. Farberg’s post-graduate training includes additional residency years at the University of Michigan in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and, in New York, as a clinical research fellow in association with the National Society for Cutaneous Medicine and New York University. He then remained in New York, completing another residency in Dermatology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, where he served as chief resident. In addition to treating patients, Dr. Farberg has been a clinical investigator on numerous studies, including FDA clinical trials. He is an accomplished author and has published over 100 articles in professional medical journals. He serves as a member of the editorial board for several medical journals including Dermatology & Therapy and SKIN. Dr. Farberg also founded the Dermatology Science and Research Foundation to provide dermatology education to his patients and peers. Dr. Farberg has been recognized as one of Dallas’s leading dermatologists with numerous awards and honors. He most recently was ranked by his dermatology colleagues in Newsweek Magazine as the #1 medical dermatologist in Texas and #6 in the entire country. While in New York he served as a consultant dermatologist for the New York Yankees. PS Winter Home

Mark Kaufmann, MD < Back Mark Kaufmann, MD Faculty Mark Kaufmann, MD, is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Dermatology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, a position he has held since 1995. He was in solo private practice for 23 years until he joined The Dermatology Group in November 2017. In September 2020, he joined Advanced Dermatology and Cosmetic Surgery as their Chief Medical Officer. He received his medical degree from New York University School of Medicine, completing residency training in dermatology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York. He is board certified in dermatology. Dr. Kaufmann is currently the Immediate-Past President of the American Academy of Dermatology. He has served on the AAD Board of Directors, as well as countless AAD committees, and has chaired many of them as well. He also serves as an advisor to the Academy RUC team (Relative Value Scale Update Committee) - a position he has held for over a decade. Dr. Kaufmann’s contributions to the American Academy of Dermatology have been recognized by his receiving a Presidential Citation in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2020, and 2022. With many articles published on the topic of health information technology, Dr. Kaufmann is a frequent national lecturer, including the annual meetings of the American Academy of Dermatology, and other societies, and grand rounds. PS Home

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Practical Symposium | Summer Sharpen Your Dermatology, Clinicopathologic & Business Skills. Join us August 20-23, 2026, in Vail, CO Past Industry Partners PS Home Dr. Clay Cockerell, the faculty, and attendees, gratefully acknowledge the following industry partners dedicated to supporting the Practical Symposium. It's this continued support that allows conferences like ours to continue providing world-class educational content during these challenging post-pandemic times. Thank You! Industry Brochure Abbvie Aclaris Therapeutics Actelion Aerolase Agillaire Almirall AMBI Skincare Amgen Arcutis Biotherapeutics Bare Dermatology | Reveal Research Institute Bayer Healthcare Biofrontera Blueprint Medicine Boehringer Ingelheim Bristol Myers Squib Caliber ID Caris Life Sciences Castle Biosciences Celgene Cockerell Dermatopathology Dermatology Authority Dermavant Sciences Dermeleve DermTech DermLite Elsevier Ferndale Healthcare Fortune Law Firm Galderma Genentech Heine Helsinn Incyte Dermatology IntraDerm Janssen Johnson & Johnson Kyowa Kirin La Roche-Posay Legally Mine Leica Leo Pharma Lilly Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals Merck Mikroscan Modernizing Medicine My Derm Portal Nextech Novartis NuVida Patient Point Pfizer Pierre Fabre Primus Pharmaceuticals Proscia Regeneron Sanofi Genzyme RTSPC Pinnacle Architecture & Design Sakura Finetek USA Sanofi Regeneron Sensus Healthcare Silicone Arts SkinCure Oncology SkylineDx Smith & Nephew StatLab Stemline Strata Skin Sciences Sun Pharma T.A. Sciences Taro Pharma UCB WinSurge Xoft Your Academy | In-Person & Online Educational Events Zero Gravity Industry Brochure

Your Academy is a series of in-person symposiums and online educational events that are focused on core and emerging dermatology and dermatopathology topics. The goal is to improve each physician and clinician's clinicopathologic correlation which leads to better patient management. About It is now more important than ever to understand the importance of the close cross-fertilization that occurs among dermatology, dermatopathology, and industry. In order to plan optimal treatment and provide the best patient care, correlation between dermatologists and pathologists is crucial. In this ever-changing field, clinicopathologic correlation also helps to guide research, new drugs, and device product development within dermatology. We hope you will join us at one of our upcoming conferences or events! Clay J. Cockerell, MD Our Team Educational Director Clay Cockerell, MD Educational Manager Brand McCarley Educational Consultant Kim Campbell

Darrell Rigel, MD, MS < Back Darrell Rigel, MD, MS Faculty Darrell Rigel, MD MS is an internationally acclaimed leader in the field of Dermatology with a focus on Melanoma, Skin Cancer, and Prevention. He has presented over 1000 lectures nationally and internationally on these subjects to physicians, government agencies, pharma, and the public. He regularly appears on CNN, Fox, ABC, and NBC, and his views are quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today and he is the Team Dermatologist for the New York Yankees. He is a graduate of MIT with a BS in Management Information Science and an MBA (SM) from the MIT Sloan School of Management. While working as a research fellow at the National Cancer Institute, he obtained his MD from George Washington University. He completed an internship at New York Hospital-Cornell and a Dermatology residency and Dermatologic Surgery fellowship at New York University and currently serves as a Clinical Professor of Dermatology at the Mt. Sinai Icahn School of Medicine. Dr. Rigel has been a leader in Dermatology for over 3 decades having been selected by his peers to lead them as President of the American Academy of Dermatology, American Society for Dermatologic Surgery, and American Dermatological Association. He also served as Vice-President of the American Board of Dermatology during his 13 years of service there. Dr. Rigel is actively involved in national public health and healthcare economic policy initiatives serving as a consultant to government and industry. He is regularly called on for his expertise on these issues by White House administrations and has testified multiple times before Congress and the FDA. He also serves as the Scientific Co-Chair of the Fall and Winter Clinical Dermatology Conferences leading the effort to provide clinical education annually to over 2000 of his colleagues. In addition, he maintains a University-based practice at the Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine in Manhattan focusing on Melanoma, Skin Cancer, and related dermatological issues. PS Home

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