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Friday, April 24
7:00 am – 7:30 am Exhibitor Setup
7:30am – 8:15 am Breakfast
8:15 am – 8:30 am Welcome, Jennifer Jacks, MD, President of the Arkansas Dermatological Society
8:30 am – 9:15am Leslie Snider, SVMIC
Topic: Practice Management
9:15 am – 9:45 am Break with Exhibitors
9:45 am – 10:30 am Speaker: Speaker: Sara Shalin, MD, UAMS
Topic: Updates at UAMS and in Dermatopathology
10:30 am – 11:15 am Speaker: Sam Awan, MD, US Dermatology, McKinney, TX
Topic: Oncodermatology for the General Dermatologist: A Framework for Managing Dermatologic Toxicities of Cancer Therapy
11:15 am – 12:00 pm Speaker: Jamie MacKelfresh, MD, Emory Health, Atlanta, GA
Topic: From Roots to Remedies: Hair Disorders Made Easier
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch and Business Meeting
1:00 pm – 1:45 pm Speaker: Andrea Mabry, MD, Pinnacle Dermatology, Little Rock, AR
Topic: Putting Out Dumpster Fires: Improving Practice Efficiency with Technology
1:45 pm – 2:30 pm Speaker: Sam Awan, MD, US Dermatology, McKinney, TX
Topic: Medical Derm Potpourri: 30 for 30: High Yield Pearls and Game Changers for the Gen Derm Clinic
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm Break with Exhibitors
3:00 pm – 3:45 pm Speaker: Sandy Johnson, MD, Johnson Dermatology, AR
Topic: Who Speaks for the Skin?
3:45 pm – 4:30 pm Speaker: Jamie MacKelfresh, MD, Emory Health, Atlanta, GA
Topic: Maximizing Diagnostic Yield of Skin Biopsies: Pearls for Clinical Practice from a Dermatopathologist
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Break
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Reception and Dinner – Big Cedar Lodge
The Arkansas Dermatological Society Annual Meeting
Big Cedar Lodge | Branson, MO |April 24-25, 2026 |
Agenda
Topic: A 16-month-old Female with an Unusual Congenital Nail bnormality
7:30 am – 8:00 am Non CME presentation
8:00 am – 9:00 am Breakfast
9:00 am – 9:45 am Speaker: Emily Overholser, MD, Memphis Dermatology, Memphis, TN
Topic: JAKi Update
9:45 am – 10:30 am Speaker: Patrick Phelan, MD, UAMS
Topic: Innovation in Hidradentitis Suppurativa
10:30 am – 11:15 am Speaker: Emily Overholser, MD, Memphis Dermatology, Memphis, TN
Topic: Pearls from Private Practice
11:15 am – 12:30 pm UAMS Resident/Student Presentations (approx. 10 minutes each)
Speaker: Madison Stokes, MD, UAMS
Topic: Beyond Benign Birthmarks: When an Epidermal Nevus is Cause for Concern
Speaker: Landon Hope, MD, UAMS
Topic: A Painful Polymorphous Presentation
Speaker: Alyson McKinnon, MD, UAMS
Topic: Cytarabine-induced Purpuric Eruption
Speaker: Kennedy Johnson (M2), UAMS
Topic: Differences in Age at Diagnosis in Kaposi Sarcoma With and Without HIV
Speaker: Clayton Frazier (M2), UAMS
Topic: Racial Inequalities in Geographic Access to US Dermatologists: A National One-Hour Drive Time Geospatial Analysis
Speaker: Blakely Greer Norris (M2), UAMS
Topic: Targeted Resection of Large Volume Vascular Malformations Using NCBA Embolization
Speaker: Nikki Hooten (M2), UAMS
Topic: Melanoma Metastasis to the Chest Wall - Thought to be an Abscess
Speaker: Lily DeSpain (M2), UAMS
Topic: Perceptions, Beliefs, and Practices of UV Exposure and Skin Cancer Prevention Among Collegiate Athletes at Missouri State University
Speaker: Mark Johnson (M3), UAMS
Topic: Rapidly Growing Nodules in an Immunocompromised Patient
Speaker: Madison McClanahan (M3), UAMS
Topic: Generalized Petechial‑Purpuric Eruption in a Child: A Rare Presentation of Parvovirus B19 Infection
Speaker: Elizabeth Stevens (M3), UAMS
Topic: A 16-month-old Female with an Unusual Congenital Nail Abnormality