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Pediatric Case-Based Session

Break/Transition

Breakout Session #2

Quiz #2

General Dermatology Case-Based Session

Geriatric Case-Based Session

Keynote - "Rural Dermatology"

Panel Discussion - Ask the Dermatologists your Burning Questions

Closing & Thank Yous

Mary E. Logue, MD, FAAD

Dr. Logue was born and raised in central Illinois and moved to Gallup, NM after graduating from college. New Mexico was her home until 2021, but her mother still resides in Bloomfield, NM. She is currently a dermatologist with Monument Health Dermatology in Spearfish, South Dakota. She earned her medical degree from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and went on to complete a Pediatric internship with Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, MO. She then completed her dermatology residency at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine where she served as chief resident and has continued on as volunteer faculty since graduation. She is board-certified in Dermatology and Mohs Micrographic Surgery. Specialty interests include pediatric and psychocutaneous dermatology. She is also the president and founder of the Rural Access to Dermatology Society whose mission is to understand the barriers that limit rural patients from visiting a dermatologist and devise systems to positively impact the skin health of this population through education and research. Her passion to bring high quality dermatologic care to rural America stemmed from her humble beginnings in central Illinois. It then blossomed during her journey from teaching on a Navajo Nation border town to becoming a dermatology resident at the University of New Mexico. She was recently honored with an invitation to sit on the American Academy of Dermatology’s Ad Hoc Task Force on Access to Care and Community Outreach.

Era Tzamaloukas, MSN, ACNS-BC

Era Tzamaloukas was home grown here in Albuquerque, where she attended UNM for her first Bachelor of Science in Biology. With that under her belt, she joined the Peace Corps as an Educator. She lived in a remote part of Ghana for 2 years teaching biology and chemistry at her school and working as the Gender and Youth Coordinator for her region. Upon her return, she attended UNM again for a Bachelor of Nursing, and quickly found an interest in Wound and Ostomy care. She attended Emory University in 2006 to get her certification. She received her Advanced Practice RN from New Mexico State in 2012. Then, in 2017, she earned her Advanced Practice Wound and Ostomy Certification. She practiced at the Presbyterian Wound and Ostomy clinic from 2012- 2021, while also working part-time in the UNM Clinical Education department. Between 2015-2018, she was the Director of the Wound Care Education program for Health Volunteers oversees for a small charity hospital in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. In 2021 she opened the only clinic in the state of New Mexico that is dedicated to the care of people living with ostomies. She is passionate about wounds, ostomies and education.

Melanie Baca, MD

Associate Professor, UNM SOM Family & Community Medicine

Carlos Cano, MD

Assistant Professor, UNM SOM Family & Community Medicine

John Durkin, MD, MBA, FAAD

Dr. John Durkin joined the UNM Department of Dermatology in July 2018 as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Durkin received his MD from the University of Pittsburgh and completed his residency at Drexel University where he served as Chief Resident.  His specific areas of clinical interest include digital imaging and diagnostic techniques, such as dermoscopy, optical coherence tomography and reflective confocal microscopy.  He is also interested in pigmented lesions (moles) and melanoma, hereditary cancer syndromes, and noninvasive treatment of skin cancer. In addition, Dr. Durkin also provides aesthetic services such as Botox, peels, fillers, laser treatments and serves as the Medical Director for the department.

Therese Holguin, MD, FAAD

Therese Holguin, M.D. joined UNM Department of Dermatology in 2016 as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Holguin graduated from UNM School of Medicine in 1984, completed two years of Internal Medicine internship and residency at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, and a UNM Dermatology residency in 1989.  Prior to joining UNM, she was a partner in private practice at Northern Arizona Dermatology Center in Flagstaff, Arizona for over 26 years. Dr. Holguin’s specialties include general and complex dermatology and surgical dermatology including complex excisions and the treatment of skin cancer.

Nikifor Konstantinov, MD

Assistant Professor & Undergraduate Medical Education Director, UNM SOM Dermatology

Andrew Matsumoto, MD, FAAD, FACMS

Andrew Matsumoto, MD joined the UNM Department of Dermatology in August of 2022 as an Assistant Professor and Director of Mohs Surgery and Dermatologic Oncology.  He received his medical degree at Albany Medical College in Albany, NY and completed his residency training at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas, TX where he also completed his Mohs Surgery and Dermatologic Oncology fellowship.  Dr. Matsumoto has extensive training in utilizing the Mohs Micrographic Surgery technique for treatment of various skin cancers as well as advanced surgical reconstruction.  His specific interests are the application of Mohs surgery for high risk squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) and in rare cutaneous tumors such as melanoma in situ of the nail unit. 

Charles Phillips, MD, FAAD

Charles (Chuck) Phillips, MD, FAAD trained in Internal Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; then went on to train in dermatology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham before joining the faculty at Brody School of Medicine in Greenville, NC, where he was Chief of Dermatology for a decade. He now serves as a Clinical Professor in the UNM Department of Dermatology and is part of the faculty at the Raymond G. Murphy VA Medical Center.

Aimee Smidt, MD, FAAD, FAAP

Aimee Smidt, MD, is originally from New England, and obtained her M.D. from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, NY. She completed Pediatrics residency at Baylor College of Medicine Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, followed by Dermatology residency at Northwestern University in Chicago and a fellowship in Pediatric Dermatology at Northwestern University-Children’s Memorial Hospital. A faculty member at UNM since 2009, she is the only board-certified and fellowship-trained pediatric dermatologist in the state. She assumed the role of Chair of the Department of Dermatology in 2017 and is most proud of the excellent team and tremendous Dermatology residency training program she has helped to build. She has also served as UNMH Chief of Staff (2014-6) and on the UNMH Board of Trustees (2016-8) and has been recognized as a “Top Doc” in Albuquerque. Her main clinical interests include: vascular birthmarks/anomalies, laser procedures, skin disease in adolescents and improving access to dermatologic care in New Mexico. She has a long track record of educational activities at all levels within the HSC and regionally/nationally, including teaching medical students, residents (Dermatology and Pediatrics) and she has served as a mentor and preceptor for many trainees and other providers. She is a member of the American Academy of Dermatology, the Society for Pediatric Dermatology and the International Society for Vascular Anomalies, among other organizations. 

Plenary #1:  Dermatological Procedures 

Break/Transition

Breakout Session #2

Quiz #2

Plenary #2:  Hidradenitis Supparitiva

Plenary #3: Hemangiomas - When to worry? What to do?

Plenary #4

Panel Discussion - Ask the Dermatologists your Burning Questions

Closing & Thank Yous