2025 Resident Competition

Marguerite Meariman 1st place

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Brepocitinib induces clinical improvement in patients with cicatricial alopecia and attenuates scalp inflammatory biomarkers

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Neil Jairath 2nd place

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

A Retrieval augmented generation-enabled LLM for improved cSCC prognostication

Kristina Navrazhina 3rd place

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Tape strip detects molecular alterations and cutaneous biomarkers in early and late stage hidradenitis suppurativa

Other Entries

Yasir Al-Dojaily

New York Medical College

Optimizing surgical training for the left-handed dermatology resident: A systematic review for identifying challenges and proposing guidelines for better education of trainees

Alyssa Breneman

Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Simplifying nasal reconstruction after Mohs surgery: an algorithm based on three cutaneous zones

Rachel Christensen

Weill Cornell Medical College

Characterization of skin response in patients with Mycosis Fungoides and Sezary Syndrome treated with Mogamulizumab: A retrospective, real world cohort

Tess Lukowiak

Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

“Mohs and social media: a cross-sectional analysis of the quality of TikTok videos regarding Mohs micrographic surgery”

Justin Marson

SUNY Downstate

New dimensions in dermatologic surgery: a pilot study of light detection and ranging in the pre-operative setting

Emily Nadelmann

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Comparative analysis of melanoma histologic subtypes and stage at diagnosis by race and ethnicity: insights from a Bronx cohort versus the TCGA-SKCM dataset

Vartan Pahalyants

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Risk factors for satellitosis/in-transit metastasis and its prognostic significance in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma

Rachel Tannenbaum

Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Outcome measurement instruments for dermatologic adverse events in cancer trials

Upcoming

Thursday, November 12, 2026

DSGNY Lecture Series

6:00-7:00pm

7:00-8:30pm

Cocktail Hour

Scientific Program

Speakers
Emma Guttman-Yassky, M.D., Ph.D

Waldman Professor and System Chair
The Kimberly and Eric J. Waldman Department of Dermatology 
Director, Asness Family Center of Excellence in Eczema and Allergic Conditions
Director, Mount Sinai-Clinique Healthy Skin Dermatology Center
Director, Laboratory of Inflammatory Skin Diseases
"Towards a New Treatment Paradigm in Hair Mediated Disorders"
Erica Lee, MD

Associate Attending Physician
Mohs and Dermatologic Surgery, Dermatology Service
Associate Program Director, Micrographic Surgery and Dermatologic Oncology
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
"Nonsurgical Horizons in Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma Management"
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