FULL SUPPLEMENT: 2025 Poster Abstracts Supplement

April 2026 | Volume 25 | Issue 4 | 269616s1 | Copyright © April 2026


Published online April 6, 2026

Andrew F. Alexis MD MPH

Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY

Abstract
Over the past two decades, the Skin of Color Update meeting has been dedicated to delivering continuing medical education to dermatologic audiences that highlights best practices and evolving trends in the management of dermatologic disorders across the spectrum of diverse patient populations with skin of color (SOC). During this time, we have witnessed extraordinary progress in clinical and translational research that has paved the way for meaningful therapeutic advances in conditions that are highly prevalent or present with unique considerations among patients with SOC. The abstracts presented here reflect that progress and underscore the growing sophistication of scholarship in this area.
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2025 POSTER ABSTRACTS SUPPLEMENT
It is my distinct honor to introduce this special supplement to the Journal of Drugs in Dermatology (JDD) featuring abstracts presented at the 2025 Annual Skin of Color Update (SOCU) meeting in New York City. As a cochair for this conference, I continue to be impressed each year by the depth and breadth of posters that are presented, and this past year’s program was particularly exceptional. Admiring the remarkable posters that line the long halls of our conference venue, I have long wished that they could be memorialized and shared...

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