RCMI International Symposium on Health Disparities
November 12-15, 2000
San Juan, Puerto Rico

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Scientific Presentations
Monday, November 13, 2000
Afternoon Session

Lupus and Skin Diseases

Moderator


Julia B. Freeman, Ph.D.

Director
Women and Minority Health Issues
Extramural Program
National Institute of Arthritis
and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases


Invited Speakers

Lupus

GENETIC LINKAGES WITH LUPUS IN AMERICANS
AFRICAN AND EUROPEAN ANCESTRY

John B. Harley, M.D., Ph.D.
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation

GENETIC VARIATIONS OF RECEPTORS
FOR IMMUNOGLOBULIN (FcγR):
DETERMINANTS OF SEVERITY OF SLE

Jane E. Salmon, M.D.
Weill Medical College

HOW DOES ETHNICITY AFFECT
THE PREDISPOSITION AND PROGNOSIS
OF SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS (SLE)
AND SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS?

John Reveille, M.D.
University of Texas
Health Sciences Center


Skin Diseases

GENETICS OF HERMANSKI-PUDLAK SYNDROME -
AN UNUSUAL TYPE OF ALBINISM

Richard A. King, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Minnesota

KELOIDS: EPIDEMIOLOGIC, CELLULAR
AND THERAPEUTIC ADVANCES

Paul A. Kelly, M.D.
King-Drew Medical Center

FOGO SALVAGEM:
AN ENVIRONMENTALLY-TRIGGERED
HUMAN AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE

Luis A. Díaz, M.D.
University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill

POSTINFLAMMATORY HYPERPIGMENTATION:
PATHOMECHANISM AND A NOVEL
APPROACH TO TREATMENT

Erick L. Carter M.D.
Columbia University College
of Physicians and Surgeons