Advances in Transplant Dermatology

Fiona O'Reilly Zwald, formerly Assistant Professor in the Department of Dermatology and Division of Transplantation at Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, received her MD at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ireland, in 1990 and achieved MRCPI (Member of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland) status in 1993. Dr Zwald is a Diplomate of the American Board of Dermatology and the National Board of Medical Examiners, a Fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology, the American College of Mohs Surgery and the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery. Since 2009 Dr. Zwald has been an active member of the Executive Board of Directors of the International Transplant Skin Cancer Collaborative, and is currently President (2014-2016) of this organization. She is an active board member of the American College of Mohs Surgery (2014-2017) having served as Chair of the Scientific Committee in 2014. From 2011-2014 she served as a member of the Steering Committee for Procedural Dermatology, of the Association of Professors of Dermatology. Dr.Zwald is a member of the editorial boards of Clinical and Experimental Dermatology, the American Journal of Transplantation, and the Archives of Dermatology. Dr Zwald is in private practice in Atlanta where continues her work with the organ transplant population. Her research focus is targeted towards early detection and management of aggressive skin cancer in the high-risk solid organ transplant and otherwise immunosuppressed population.

Transplantation today.- De novo malignancies after solid organ transplantation: focus on viral infection.- Update on benign and inflammatory skin disease secondary to transplant medication.- Update on photoprotection and sunscreen use in solid organ transplant recipients.- Update on our understanding of HPV as a risk factor for cutaneous SCC in organ transplant recipients.- Advances in our understanding of immunosuppression as a risk factor for cutaneous SCC: evidence for revision of immunosuppressive therapy.- Advances in photodynamic therapy for the treatment of malignant and pre-malignant lesions in transplant dermatology.- Update on staging, definition and chemoprevention of 'high risk SCC' in organ transplant recipients.- Advances in management of 'high risk SCC' in organ transplant recipients.- Advances in management of Merkel cell carcinoma in organ transplant recipients; role of polyoma virus and immunosuppression.- Update in melanoma in organ transplant recipients.- Update on unusual tumors in organ transplant recipients.