Epidermal-T Cell Interactions:
Clinicopathologic and Basic Mechanisms

October 11th – 15th, 2007
Salishan Resort, Gleneden Beach, Oregon

Program Co-Chairs:

Richard Sontheimer, MD
Professor and Vice-Chairman,
Fleischaker Endowed Chair,
Dermatology Residency Program Director,
Department of Dermatology
The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

Kevin D. Cooper, MD
Professor and Chairman,
Department of Dermatology;
Director, Skin Diseases Research Center;
President, University Hospitals Dermatology Associates
Case Western Reserve University

The 2007 Montagna Symposium program will focus upon epithelial cell-T cell interactions within the context of five commonly encountered cutaneous histopathological reaction patterns:

1) cutaneous T cell lymphoma/cutaneous malignancies,
2) lichenoid tissue reaction/interface dermatitis,
3) psoriasiform inflammation, and
4) atopic/spongiotic dermatitis.

Each of these histopathological patterns will be discussed by a multidisciplinary faculty within the following framework:

clinicopathological features,
animal models,
global and disease-specific molecular mechanisms, and
new concepts for translation of mechanisms into possible treatments.