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Welcome to module 4 where we'll review Adnexal Disorders: Acne, Rosacea, and Hidradenitis Suppurativa!
Acne: Pathophysiology and Differential Diagnosis and Therapeutics
This course reviews the pathophysiology, differential diagnoses and therapeutic approaches to acne. The course will also explore treatment options including both traditional and integrative approaches to therapy.
After completing this activity, participants will be able to:
- Review the basic pathophysiology of acne
- Identify conditions that might be confused with acne
- Describe common treatment options
Rosacea: Pathophysiology and Differential Diagnosis and Therapeutics
This course reviews the pathophysiology, subtypes of rosacea, differential diagnoses and therapeutic options, both traditional and integrative, in addressing rosacea.
After completing this activity, participants will be able to:
- Describe the pathophysiology of rosacea for each subtype
- Describe the clinical presentation, course, prognosis and therapeutic treatment options, both integrative and traditional, in treating all subtypes of rosacea
- Identify commonly seen triggers associated with rosacea flare
- Review the differential diagnoses associated with rosacea and patient education
Hidradenitis Suppurativa: Diagnosis and Therapeutics
This course reviews the pathophysiology, differential diagnoses and therapeutic approaches to hidradenitis suppurativa. The course will also explore treatment options including both traditional and integrative approaches to therapy.
After completing this activity, participants will be able to:
- Identify and diagnose hidradenitis suppurativa in terms of physical disease and psychological aspects of disease
- Review the Hurley stages and clinical presentation of hidradenitis suppurativa
- Recall therapeutic options for each stage, both traditional and integrative approaches
- Review patient education
The Role of Nutrition, Supplements and Microbiome in Acne, Rosacea, and Hidradenitis Suppurativa
This course explores the roles nutrition, supplements and the microbiome play in acne, rosacea, and hidradenitis suppurativa.
After completing this activity, participants will be able to:
- Describe basics of the gut microbiome and the gut-skin connection
- Identify how the gut microbiome and nutrition can affect skin health through the microbiome shift in acne and evidence for probiotics, and the microbiome shift in rosacea and association with SIBO
- Review the role of oral probiotics, prebiotics, and postbiotics in skin disease
- Discuss the role diet plays in acne and rosacea and hidradenitis suppurativa
Faculty
After finishing Medical School and Dermatology Residency at the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Bodemer completed a fellowship in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. She was the first Dermatologist to be board certified in both Dermatology and Integrative Medicine and currently is the only Dermatologist to serve on the Integrative Medicine Board. She has authored academic texts and curriculum and has spoken widely on a variety of topics related to Integrative Dermatology. She has always been drawn to exploring how lifestyle choices impact skin health and disease and feels that the most powerful role a physician can play is as an educator and guide, empowering people to get healthy and stay healthy.
Sonal Choudhary, MD is a Board certified Dermatologist and fellowship trained Dermatopathologist, who joined the Department of Dermatology in 2016 upon completion of her Dermatopathology Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Choudhary received her undergraduate degree and medical degree from Vardhman Mahavir Medical College in New Delhi India. She completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at the University of Miami, where she remained to complete her Preliminary Internship in Internal Medicine, as well as her Residency Program in Dermatology. Dr. Choudhary is also undergoing a fellowship in Integrative Dermatology which will conclude in February of 2024.
While she offers care for all dermatologic conditions, her areas of clinical interest and research are atopic dermatitis, gut and skin microbiome, integrative dermatology, alternative therapies and approaches (herbs, supplements, functional medicine testing) to inflammatory skin diseases (Hidradenitis suppurativa, Acne, Psoriasis, hair loss), nutrition in cutaneous disease and dermatopathology. She is the director of the adult atopic dermatitis clinic and member of the PCOS collaboration group at UPMC Magee. Given her areas of training, Dr. Choudhary offers a holistic and integrative approach for various skin conditions.
Professional memberships
- Member of Integrative Dermatology with Integrative Dermatology Certification Program/LearnSkin
- Fellow of Pittsburgh Academy of Dermatology
- Fellow of Pennsylvania Academy of Dermatology
- Fellow of American Academy of Dermatology
- Fellow of American Academy of Dermatopathology
Education & Training
- MBBS, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College, Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India
- Clinical Internship, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College, Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India
- Post Doctoral Fellowship, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
- Internship, University of Miami and Jackson Memorial Hospital
- Residency, Dermatology, University of Miami and Jackson Memorial Hospital
- Fellowship, Dermatopathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
- Fellowship in Integrative Dermatology with LearnSkin
Dr. Daveluy is a professor and program director at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He earned a bachelor's in science from Michigan State University. He completed medical school and his dermatology residency at Wayne State University.
He holds special interests in teledermatology, noninvasive skin imaging, skin of color, integrative dermatology, and complex medical dermatology, including hidradenitis suppurativa. He is active on AAD committees, including Performance Measure and DataDerm Oversight. He is the past president of the Wayne County Medical Society and Michigan Dermatological Society. He serves on the board of directors of the HS Foundation and editorial board for the JAAD and JAAD Case Reports and is building a growing body of publications of his own. He lives across the border in Windsor, Ontario, Canada with his husband and two very spoiled dogs
Dr. Raja Sivamani is a board-certified dermatologist and practices as an integrative dermatologist at Pacific Skin Institute. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Clinical Dermatology at the University of California, Davis and Director of Clinical Research and the Clinical Trials Unit.He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the California State University, Sacramento and an Associate Professor of Dermatology at California Northstate University, College of Medicine.He engages in clinical practice as well as both clinical and translational research that integrates bioengineering, nutrition, cosmetics, and skin biology. With training in both Allopathic and Ayurvedic medicine, he takes an integrative approach to his patients and in his research.He has published over 100 peer-reviewed research manuscripts, 10 textbook chapters, and a textbook entitled Cosmeceuticals and Active Cosmetics, 3rd Edition with a passion for expanding the evidence and boundaries of integrative medicine for skin care.
