What: 58th Annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology
When: Friday, March 10 through Wednesday, March 15, 2000
Where: Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco

Media Briefing:
Richard Glogau, MD, UCSF clinical professor of dermatology
Friday, March 10, 12 noon
Moscone Center, press briefing room, Room 234
Soft Tissue Augmentation: The Forever Young Formula
Glogau will discuss the latest cosmetic procedures that help patients conserve a youthful appearance. Topics will include: injections of botulinum toxin to remove eyebrow lines, crow's feet, and other wrinkle patterns, and bovine collagen injections for softening lines around the mouth. He will also discuss alternatives for the future, such as recombinant human collagen.

Award presentation:
Vera Price, MD, UCSF professor of clinical dermatology
Monday, March 13, 9 am
Moscone Center, Room 134
Presidential Citation
Price will be awarded a presidential citation by Darrell Rigel, MD, the president of the American Academy of Dermatology, to recognize her provision of the highest quality of compassion and care to patients with dermatologic disease. Price treats clinical hair loss and studies normal and abnormal hair growth.

Plenary Lecture:
Ilona Frieden, MD, UCSF clinical professor of dermatology and pediatrics
Monday, March 13, 3:40 pm
Moscone Center, Room 134
Hemangiomas and Cutaneous Mosaicism
Frieden will discuss the most common tumor of infancy -- hemangioma -- and how history has affected dermatologists' current treatment of them.

Research Talk:
Herschel Zackheim, MD, UCSF clinical professor of dermatology
Saturday, March 11, 11 am
Moscone Center, Room 133
New data on survival of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma patients Contrary to what most dermatology textbooks say, cutaneous T-cell lymphoma patients have reasonably good survival rates -- roughly 80 percent, according to Zackheim's research.

Research Talk:
Christopher Zachary, MD, UCSF clinical professor of dermatology
Saturday, March 11, 9 am
Moscone Center, Room
Facial Reconstruction in Motion
Zachary will discuss facial reconstruction for patients who have had cancer surgery, and discuss how this procedure can be performed at lower cost in an ambulatory surgery center instead of an operating room.

Research Talk:
Christropher Zachary, MD, UCSF clinical professor of dermatology and Roy Grekin, MD, UCSF associate clinical professor of dermatology
Friday, March 10, 11:00 am
Moscone Center, Room 122
Erbium: YAG Laser Skin Resurfacing
The new Erbium: YAG laser allows dermatologists to do "laser peels" of the face with faster healing times than carbon dioxide-based lasers. Zachary and Grekin will discuss how these techniques make laser skin rejuvenation safer and more refined.

Poster Exhibit:
Tanweer Syed, MD, PhD, UCSF professor of dermatology
Moscone Center, Exhibit Hall A
"Management of Intravaginal Warts in Women with 5-Fluorouracil (1%) in a Vaginal Hydrophilic Gel: A Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blinded Study."

Note: Reporters interested in interviews with any of these UCSF Faculty may contact Kevin Boyd at (415) 476-2557. Or contact the American Academy of Dermatology press room in Moscone Center room 236 by calling (415) 978-3650.