Dr. Paul Nghiem Announced as Keynote Speaker for the Wallace H. Clark Lectureship in Cutaneous Oncology & Melanoma

Dr. Paul Nghiem, professor and head of the UW Medicine Division of Dermatology, Dermatology Site Director for the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and George F. Odland Endowed Chair in Dermatology, has been announced as the keynote speaker for the Wallace H. Clark, Jr., MD Lectureship in Cutaneous Oncology and Melanoma Symposium.

Hosted by the Penn Medicine Abramson Cancer Center, the 17th Wallace H. Clark Lectureship in Cutaneous Oncology and Melanoma will be held virtually on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021 from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. EDT. The annual symposium highlights recent developments in skin cancer diagnosis and treatment research, and designed to update participants on important topics in cutaneous oncology and melanoma.

Each year the symposium welcomes hundreds of dermatologists, dermatophathologists, medical oncologists, hematologists/oncologists, surgical oncologists, radiation oncologists, primary care physicians, oncology nurses and other healthcare professionals who care for patients with melanoma. 

Penn Medicine and guest faculty will provide updates on issues critical to patient management. Participants will gain up-to-date, practical information with immediate clinical application, as well as a technical and scientific background on the current state of the field and emerging advances. Each presentation will be followed by a panel-led question and answer session. 

Dr. Nghiem will close out the program with a keynote lectureship on Merkel Cell Carcinoma. 

To learn more, view a full agenda and list of speakers, please visit: med.upenn.edu/clark2021