American College of Mohs Surgery (ACMS) 51st Annual Meeting

Program

2019 DQC Review of Answers

Final Program

Click the image at right to open a PDF of the Final Program,
which contains the following information:

  • Welcome Messages from the President & Program Chair
  • Hotel and airport information
  • Full scientific program
  • Special events
  • CME information and learning objectives
  • Guest speaker biographies
  • Speaker and exhibitor listings

Quick links

Program at a Glance

What You Need to Know

Meeting location and hotels

The Baltimore Marriott Waterfront  /  700 Aliceanna St, Baltimore, MD 21202  /  (410) 385-3000

  • Reduced nightly base room rate: $259 for single/double occupancy + 15.5% hotel occupancy tax
  • Hotel check-in time is 3:00 pm and check-out time is 12:00 pm
  • Self-parking (garage): $8.50 hourly/$26 daily; Valet: $45 daily

Four Seasons Hotel Baltimore  /  200 International Drive, Baltimore, MD 21202  /  410) 576-5800

  • Reduced nightly base room rate: $289 for single/double occupancy + 15.5% hotel occupancy tax
  • Hotel check-in time is 3:00 pm and check-out time is 12:00 pm
  • Self-parking (garage): $8 hourly/$23 daily; Valet: $46

Baltimore Weather
During early May: average high of 76°F; average low of 58°F

Registration Desk hours

The Registration Desk is located on Level 3 of the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront and will be open on the following days and times (subject to change):

  • Wednesday, May 1:  1:00 - 6:00 pm
  • Thursday, May 2:  6:30 am - 5:00 pm
  • Friday, May 3:  6:30 am - 5:00 pm
  • Saturday, May 4:  6:30 am - 4:00 pm

How to check in and pick up your registration materials

When checking in for the 2019 Annual Meeting at the Registration Desk, attendees should follow these steps:

  1. If you pre-registered for the meeting, you will receive an email with a bar code that will allow for quick check-in. This bar code can be scanned from a printed copy or on your smartphone at the Registration Desk. You can also use one of the laptops available to enter the email address you used to register for the meeting. Follow the prompts to check in, and your name badge, Morning Mini Session tickets, and any other purchases (such as President’s Reception tickets) will print. If any changes to your registration are needed, please visit the on-site registration station at the Registration Desk for assistance.
  2. Receive a blue ACMS folio containing the Final Program, CME/Abstract Book, pen/stylus, and informational materials from select meeting sponsors and exhibitors.
  3. Take a name badge lanyard and notepad from the courtesy table near the Registration Desk.
  4. Add the Annual Meeting mobile app to your phone, tablet laptop or device of choice; simple directions can be found here, in your Final Program, and on signage near the Registration Desk.

Get the 2019 mobile app

President's Reception

6:30 – 9:30 pm • Four Seasons Hotel, Cobalt Room, Second Floor
Join colleagues to enjoy live music, cocktails, food stations and hors d’oeuvres while overlooking the Inner Harbor and marina. Tickets will be available for $75at the ACMS Registration Desk between 1 pm on Wednesday, May 1 until 4 pm on Saturday, May 4.

Get your copy of the 50th Anniversary book

This custom, illustrated 80-page hardcover volume, “ACMS: The Margin of Victory for 50 Years,” chronicles the genesis and evolution of Mohs surgery, including the perspectives of 10 important figures from founding to present. Copies will also be available for $75 at the Registration Desk and online after the meeting.

Special events

Learn more about MohsAIQ registry at Booth #330

In order to provide information and answer member questions about participation in the ACMS MohsAIQ clinical data registry, ArborMetrix, the College's technology and implementation partner for the registry, will have staff in the Exhibit Hall (Harborside Ballroom, Level 4) at the MohsAIQ booth #330. Learn more here or email registry@mohscollege.org

Professional headshots

On Saturday, May 4 from 12:00-2:00 pm in the Exhibit Hall (Harborside Ballroom, Level 4), professional headshots will be offered by our photographer FREE to meeting attendees. Images will be sent electronically for personal use. All photos will be taken on a first-come, first-served basis until 2:00 pm.

Tag ACMS on social media using #ACMS19

Attendees are encouraged to share their Annual Meeting experience on social media Tag ACMS on Facebook and Twitter @MohsCollege using the meeting hashtag #ACMS19.

How to claim CME for the meeting

  1. Login to your registration here (the link will be sent via email as well).
  2. On the ‘Session Evaluations’ tab, click on ‘Click here to choose the sessions you attended’; once your sessions are selected, click ‘Save entries’.
  3. Click ‘Click here to complete the evaluation’; once completed, click ‘Submit’.
  4. Select the credit type (General CME), and click ‘Save’.
  5. Click the ‘Print your Certificate’ link to generate your certificate. You may save it as a PDF or print it.

The CME claim site will be available Monday, May 6 through Thursday, September 5, 2019. If you have any questions or need help claiming credit, contact the ACMS office at info@mohscollege.org.

Thanks to our sponsors

The ACMS gratefully acknowledges the following companies for their contributions and support to help underwrite the educational goals of the ACMS Annual Meeting:

Gold Sponsors

Sponsors

Program at a Glance

Wednesday, May 1

8:30 am – 5:00 pm Fellows-in-Training Hands-on Cutaneous Flap Workshop
1:00 – 4:00 pm Hand & Nail Workshop
1:00 – 6:00 pm Registration and Presentation Upload Kiosks available
6:00 – 8:00 pm Fellows-in-Training Mohs Surgery Histotechnology and Lab Set Up Workshop

 

Thursday, May 2

6:30 am – 5:00 pm Registration Desk open; Presentation Upload Kiosks available
7:00 – 8:15 am Concurrent Morning Mini-Sessions:
  • 103.1 Step by Step: Scar Revision (1.25 Credit Hours)
  • 103.2 Step by Step: Tunneled Flaps ♦ (1.25 Credit Hours)
  • 103.3 Public Policy Update 2019 (1.25 Credit Hours)
  • 103.4 Immunohistochemistry for Mohs: Melanoma and Beyond (1.25 Credit Hours)
  • 103.5 Transplant Update (1.25 Credit Hours)
8:30 – 9:00 am Welcome & AAD Update (0.50 Credit Hour)
9:00 – 9:45 am Literature Review (0.75 Credit Hour)
9:30 am – 7:30 pm Exhibit Hall Open
9:45 – 10:00 am Break (CME Not offered)
10:00 – 11:00 am Tromovitch Award Abstract Session (1.00 Credit Hour)
11:00 – 12:00 pm Step by Step: Lip Reconstruction (1.00 Credit Hour)
12:00 – 1:00 pm Networking Lunch (provided) (CME Not offered)
1:00 – 2:00 pm Rare Tumors: AFX, EMPD, DFSP (1.00 Credit Hour)
2:00 – 2:45 pm Mohs for Melanoma (0.75 Credit Hour)
2:45 – 3:00 pm Break (CME Not offered)
3:00 – 4:00 pm Clinical Pearls Abstract Session (1.00 Credit Hour)
4:00 – 5:00 pm Video Reconstruction: Advancement and Rotation Flaps (1.00 Credit Hour)
5:30 – 7:30 pm Exhibit Hall Grand Opening & Welcome Reception (CME Not offered)

♦ Represents advanced expertise level course
 

Friday, May 3

6:30 am - 5:00 pm Registration Desk open; Presentation Upload Kiosks available
7:00 – 8:15 am Concurrent Morning Mini-Sessions:
  • 202.1 Step by Step: Interpolation Flaps for Nasal Reconstruction ♦ (1.25 Credit Hours)
  • 202.2 Surgical Safety (1.25 Credit Hours)
  • 202.3 Anticoagulation and Bleeding (1.25 Credit Hours)
  • 202.4 Running Your Mohs Lab: QI, QC, CLIA, CAP ♦ (1.25 Credit Hours)
  • 202.5 Secrets to Successful Skin Grafts (1.25 Credit Hours)
8:30 – 9:15 am Step by Step: Auricular Reconstruction ♦ (0.75 Credit Hour)
9:15 – 9:45 am Management of High Risk Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma (0.50 Credit Hour)
9:30 am – 6:30 pm Exhibit Hall Open
9:45 – 10:00 am Break (CME Not offered)
  FOCUS ON INNOVATION
10:00 – 11:00 am Information and Innovation in Cutaneous Oncology (1.00 Credit Hour)
11:00 – 12:00 pm Keynote: Putting the Learning Back in Machine Learning (1.00 Credit Hour)
Guest Speaker: Leonard D'Avolio, PhD
12:15 – 2:00 pm ACMS Annual Business Meeting & Lunch (Non-CME Session)
Non-members and guests: lunch on your own; visit the Exhibit Hall
2:00  – 2:15 pm Fellow-in-Training Clinicopathologic Case Competition Award Winner (0.25 Credit Hour)
2:15  – 3:15 pm Digital Diagnostic Quality Control Exam Review (1.00 Credit Hour)
3:15 – 3:30 pm Break (CME Not offered)
3:30 – 4:30 pm Scientific Abstract Session (1.00 Credit Hour)
4:30 – 5:15 pm Video Reconstruction: Transposition Flaps ♦ (0.75 Credit Hour)
5:30 – 6:30 pm Program Directors’ Session (Non-CME Session)
6:30 – 8:00 pm Fellows-in-Training Reception (CME Not offered)

♦ Represents advanced expertise level course
 

Saturday, May 4

6:30 am – 4:00 pm Registration Desk open; Presentation Upload Kiosks available
7:00 – 8:15 am Concurrent Morning Mini-Sessions:
  • 302.1 Step by Step: Reconstruction Involving Multiple Cosmetic Subunits ♦
    (1.25 Credit Hours)
  • 302.2 Mohs on the Hands and Feet ♦ (1.25 Credit Hours)
  • 302.3 Pain Control and Opioid Prescribing (1.25 Credit Hours)
  • 302.4 Mohs on the Genitalia ♦ (1.25 Credit Hours)
  • 302.5 Merkel Cell Carcinoma Update (1.25 Credit Hours)
8:30 – 9:15 am Step by Step: Nasal Reconstruction (0.75 Credit Hour)
9:15 – 10:00 am Slippery Slides: Artifacts, Mimickers, and Challenges in Frozen Sections ♦ (0.75 Credit Hour)
9:30 am – 2:00 pm Exhibit Hall Open
10:00 – 10:15 am Break (CME Not offered)
  FOCUS ON MULTIDISCIPLINARY CARE
10:15 – 11:00 am Skin Cancer Update: Multidisciplinary Perspective (0.75 Credit Hour)
Guest Speakers: Mohan Suntha, MD, MBA & Scott E. Strome, MD
11:00 – 12:00 pm Multidisciplinary Tumor Board (1.00 Credit Hour)
Guest Panelists: Mohan Suntha, MD, MBA, Scott E. Strome, MD, & Petr F. Hausner, MD, PhD
12:00 – 1:00 pm Lunch in the Exhibit Hall (CME Not offered)
  FOCUS ON THE EYE
1:00 – 1:30 pm Eyelid and Orbital Anatomy (0.50 Credit Hour)
Guest Speaker: Nirusha Lachman, PhD
1:30 – 1:45 pm Computer-Assisted Design for Periocular Reconstruction (0.25 Credit Hour)
Guest Speaker: Nicholas R. Mahoney, MD
1:45 – 2:30 pm Oculoplastic Approach to Eyelid Reconstruction (0.75 Credit Hour)
Guest Speaker: M. Reza Vagefi, MD
2:30 – 3:15 pm How Would You Reconstruct This Eyelid? ♦ (0.75 Credit Hour)
Guest Panelists: Nicholas R. Mahoney, MD & M. Reza Vagefi, MD
3:15 – 3:30 pm Break (CME Not offered)
3:30 – 4:30 pm Rapid Pearl Abstract Session (1.00 Credit Hour)
4:30 – 5:15 pm Defining Quality in Mohs Surgery (0.75 Credit Hour)
6:30 – 9:30 pm President's Reception (CME Not offered)

♦ Represents advanced expertise level course
 

Sunday, May 5

7:00 – 10:00 am Presentation Upload Kiosks available
8:30 – 9:15 am Controversies in Mohs Surgery (0.75 Credit Hour)
9:15 – 10:00 am Case-Based Coding (0.75 Credit Hour)
10:00 – 11:00 am Video Reconstruction: Advanced Flaps (1.00 Credit Hour) ♦
11:00 – 12:00 pm MOC Self-Assessment: Procedural Dermatology (Non-CME Session)
12:00 pm Meeting Adjourned

♦ Represents advanced expertise level course
 

Important Dates

April 2019
1     Pre-registration & hotel room
       block close

May 2019
2-5    Annual Meeting
13     DQC Exam closes


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