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ASLMS Announces Keynote SpeakerA Keynote Lecture You Won't Want to Miss!  The ASLMS is pleased to announce that R. Rox Anderson, M.D. has agreed to serve as a keynote speaker at our 28th ASLMS Annual Conference. Dr. Anderson's lecture entitled "INNOVATION, DISRUPTION AND SUFFERING FROM SUCCESS" is scheduled during the Plenary Session on Saturday, April 5, 2008 from 10:40 am to 11:30 am. This talk is a tribute to Dr. Horace Furumoto, who would urge us now to do much better... Revolutions and evolutions are disruptive. Insightful progress with laser treatment and diagnostics have revolutionized dermatology and ophthalmology and will probably revolutionize others. At different stages, inventors, academic scientists, engineers, businessmen, federal regulators, creative clinicians and lawyers get involved. The most successful (and long-suffering) pioneers, including Horace Furumoto, have played multiples of these roles. Selective photothermolysis, fractional photothermolysis and software-programmable photothermolysis will be used to illustrate past, present and future disruptive approaches in laser surgery. Dr. R. Rox Anderson is a professor at Harvard Medical School, an adjunct professor at MIT, and director of the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Wellman is the world's largest academic facility dedicated to photomedicine. After graduating from MIT, Dr. Anderson received his M.D. degree from Harvard. He conceived and developed dermatologic surgery using selectively-absorbed laser pulses, which is now the preferred basis for treatment of birthmarks, pigmented lesions, tattoos, hypertrichosis and other conditions. He has made many contributions to our understanding and development of laser-tissue interactions, tissue optics, photodynamic therapy, and optical diagnostics. Dr. Anderson also practices dermatology, teaches at Harvard and MIT, and conducts research at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine. Active research includes diagnostic tissue imaging and spectroscopy, photodynamic therapy, mechanisms of laser-tissue interactions, low-level light effects and novel therapies. Dr. Anderson received the Ellet H. Drake and William Mark awards from this Society, and serves on the editorial board of its journal.
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