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Registration Open for AAD Summer Meeting

May 12th, 2016

Registration for the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) Summer Meeting is now open. The meeting will take place July 28-31, 2016, in Boston and will offer more than 95 educational sessions spread across 10 tracks.

Sessions will include: newly expanded hands-on workshops covering cryosurgery, nail surgery, scar revision and wound repair, practical anatomy for safe filler injections, and lasers; and standardized patient workshops in which providers may interact one-on-one with an actor-patient to practice medication management, breaking bad news, handling a difficult patient and/or hospital admission.

Register at www.aad.org.

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