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Learning
Curves

Focused Sessions on skin, hair, nails,

procedures and beyond

By: Dr. Kyla Janika M. Nerva and Dr. Louie Arielle Dado

he skINTELLECT Postgraduate Course started
off with the nail lecture series that walked the Event East Avenue Medical Center Department
Tparticipants through the basic nail changes which of Dermatology 6th Postgraduate Course
led to one of the main takeaway that onychoscopy or the “skINTELLECT: Focused Sessions on Skin, Hair,
dermoscopic examination of the nail unit may serve as a Nails, Procedures, and Beyond”
link between naked- eye examination and histopathology.
Dermoscopy may prove clinical diagnosis and prevent Date August 9, 2019
unnecessary nail biopsy. As for management, nail
disorders that are recalcitrant to conventional treatment, Venue Luxent Hotel, Timog Avenue, Quezon City
the use of laser therapy such as long pulsed Nd:Yag for
Onycomycosis was discussed as well. Chairman Ma. Angela M. Lavadia, MD, FPDS

Moderators Maria Tricia Manlongat-Malahito, MD, FPDS
Maria Franchesca Quinio, MD, DPDS

Welcome Remarks Maria Carla Perlas-Pagtakhan, MD, FPDS

Case Presenters/ Camille Berenguer-Angeles, MD, FPDS
Lecturers Carolyn Jean Chua-Aguilera, MD, FPDS
Arunee H. Siripunvarapon, MD, FPDS
Ma. Pilar Leuenberger, MD, FPDS
Charlene Marie Ang-Tiu, MD, FPDS
Lily Lyralin Laconico-Tumalad, MD, FPDS
Lia Bernardo, PhD
Allan Dexter M. Alejo, MD, DPDS
Open forum on nail disorders
Ma. Juliet Macarayo, MD, FPDS
Jocelyn Theresa Navalta, MD, FPDS
Maria Angela Tomacruz-Cumagun, MD, FPDS
Marie Socouer L. Medina-Oblepias, MD, FPDS
Rosalina E. Nadela, MD, MSC, FPD
Lucia Fores MD, FPDS
Claudia Samonte MD, FPDS
Ma. Angela M. Lavadia, MD, FPDS
Ana Aurelia M. Santos, MD, DPDS
Ma. Purita Paz-Lao, MD, FPDS

Total Number of 165
Attendees
Getting to know about the different chemical peels
for a variety of indications

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