Learning Objectives

After completing this live activity, participants should be better able to:

• Evaluate and treat acne and rosacea in the adult female patient
• Formulate approaches to the challenges of pediatric hair abnormalities
• Assess treatment approaches for the adult and pediatric patient with common warts and molluscum contagiosum
• Implement treat-to-target strategies, using new and emerging therapies, for psoriasis
• Recognize and manage hyperhidrosis
• Explain how to diagnose and manage hemangiomas
• Discuss the benefits and risks of current agents and techniques commonly used in aesthetic and procedural dermatology
• Select filler agents suitable for use in treating different facial areas
• List signs, symptoms, and diagnostic indicators of hidradenitis supparitiva severity levels and describe initial steps for treatment
• Design guideline-concurrent treatment strategies for patients with atopic dermatitis to achieve a goal of clear or almost clear skin
• Individualize patient treatment strategies by considering the full range of current and emerging therapeutic options for atopic dermatitis
• Apply current strategies for assessing and treating hair disorders
• Discuss the factors that increase a patient’s risk for developing actinic keratosis
• Describe the most commonly used and most effective topical therapies
• Review risks and benefits of systemic therapy in women
• Identify current treatment options for vitiligo
• Detect and manage common skin conditions in skin of color
• Summarize recent advances in the diagnosis and treatment of several severe skin diseases seen in children
• Discuss approaches to treating warts
• Describe the evolution of sunscreen technology; summarize new Photoprotective technologies; and discuss and explain current sunscreen controversies