DIG’s 2024-2025 Board Officers

Congratulations to DIG’s new 2024-2025 board officers!

Co-Presidents: Moses Alfaro (MS3) & Tristan (MS1)

Vice President: Ayomide Akinsooto (MS2)

Secretary/Treasurer: Elizabeth Long (MS3)

Webmaster: Hira Asim (MS2)

Run From the Sun Coordinator: Bahar Momin (MS3), Rosa Su (MS2), Phuongthy Tran (MS1)

TDS Spring 2024 Abstract & Poster Submissions

With the TDS conference coming up, we would like to highlight some projects that were submitted by some of our DIG members!

Medical Student Podium Presentations:

• Disparities in Access to Novel Systemic Therapies for Moderate-to-Severe Atopic Dermatitis

  • Noah Fanous BA, Yousef Salem BS, Hira Asim BA, Pavela Bambekova MD, Chad Hivnor MD

• Intracranial Extension of BCC Despite Negative Radiographic Evidence of Bony Neoplastic Invasion

  • Bahar Momin BBA, Brooke A. Burgess MD, Joshua L. Owen MD, PhD

Medical Student Posters:

• A Year in Review: Haven for Hope Dermatology Clinic Diagnoses Among the Uninsured and Individuals Experiencing Homelessness

  • Rosa Su BSA, Hira Asim BA, Richard Usatine, MD

• Underlying Viral Etiology in Behcet’s Disease: A Systematic Review

  • Victoria Ayodele BA, Ayomide Akinsooto MS, Raphaela Tchani BS, Pavela Bambekova MD, Sandra Osswald, MD

• Eosinophilic Dermatosis of Hematologic Malignancy in the Setting of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

  • Noah Fanous BA, Emily Clarke MD, Khang Nguyen MD

• Bridging the Diaper Gap: Empowering Families through Diaper Dermatitis Education

  • Sana Suhail BS, Elizabeth Long BA, John Browning MD

Resident Podium Presentations:

• Auto-Inflammatory Granulomatous Disease in a Previously Healthy 5-month-old

  • Julie Hancock MD, Hira Asim BA, Emily Becker MD

• Echoes of Clarity: Harnessing Ultrasound in Dermatology

  • Charlotte Greif MD, Pavela Bambekova MD, Joshua L. Owen MD, PhD, Nilam Soni MD

Resident Posters:

• Progressive Histiocytic Neoplasms with Atypical BRAF and KRAS Mutations in a Pediatric Patient with

  • Madline Frizzell MD, Moses Alfaro BSA, Jesse Fike MD

• A Rare Case of Extranodal NK/T Cell Lymphoma in a White Elderly Male

  • Clark Gravell MD, Ndanzia Mpunga BA, Alison Messer MD, Adolfo Diaz Duque MD

• A Case of TGM-1 Related Lamellar Ichthyosis

  • McKenna Odom MS, Tristan Strickland BS, Robert C. Gilson MD

• Severe Retiform Purpura with Cryoglobulinemia

  • Katherine Smith MD, Ayomide Akinsooto MS, Sandra Osswald MD