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Scientific Program 2025

The Scientific Program will be finalized by 14 October

Thursday, November 6, 2025
Friday, November 7, 2025

Thursday, November 6, 2025

08:30 - 18:00
Registration
Duration: 570 min
09:30 - 10:30
Case Reports / Free Communications
Duration: 60 min

Chairs: I. Jākobsone, M. Šepte, K. Bērziņa

09:30 - 09:45
Contact dermatitis: Problems and perspectives
Duration: 15 min
09:45 - 10:00
TBA
Duration: 15 min
10:00 - 10:10
TBA
Duration: 10 min
10:10 - 10:20
Photosensitivity reactions of locally applied medicines on human skin
Duration: 10 min
Andra Derveniece (Latvia)
10:20 - 10:30
Androgenetic Alopecia - what weapons do we have in modern dermatology?
Duration: 10 min
Marko Kozelj (Slovenia)
10:30 - 11:30
JOHNSON & JOHNSON Company Symposium
Duration: 60 min
10:30 - 11:00
Differential diagnosis of psoriasis and the impact of risk factors on treatment efficacy
Duration: 30 min
11:00 - 11:30
Navigating systemic psoriasis treatment
Duration: 30 min
11:30 - 12:30
Plenary Lectures
Duration: 60 min

Chairs: K. Eisendle,  I.Hartmane

11:30 - 11:50
Cutaneous Sarcoidosis: Diagnostic Correlations and Treatment Algorithms
Duration: 20 min
11:50 - 12:10
Long COVID-19 syndrome in Dermatology
Duration: 20 min
12:10 - 12:30
Non surgical treatment of Basal Cell Carcinoma (BCC)
Duration: 20 min
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch Break and Poster Session presentations
Duration: 60 min
13:30 - 14:30
Symposium/Plenary lectures
Duration: 60 min

Chairs: K.Kingo, S.Rubins

13:30 - 13:50
IPL Technology – What We Know From Research from Long-Term Analyses
Duration: 20 min
13:50 - 14:10
Genome-Wide Association Study of a Rare Papulosquamous Disease - Pityriasis Rubra Pilaris
Duration: 20 min
14:10 - 14:30
Rare Syndromes with Urticaria
Duration: 20 min
14:30 - 15:30
Symposium/Plenary Lectures/Free Communication
Duration: 60 min
14:30 - 14:45
Langerhans cell histyocytosis as a differential diagnosis for intertriginous dermatitis
Duration: 15 min
14:45 - 15:00
Evaluation of a multimodal 4-step erbium:YAG and Nd:YAG laser protocol effectiveness using validated digital photo-analysis systems
Duration: 15 min
Tatjana Linova (Latvia)
15:00 - 15:15
Artificial Intelligence in Dermatology: A Continuous Quandary
Duration: 15 min
Madison Downs (USA)
15:15 - 15:30
Cutaneous sarcoidosis: diagnostic correlations and treatment algorithms
Duration: 15 min
Ingmars Mikazans (Latvia)
15:30 - 15:50
Coffee break
Duration: 20 min
15:50 - 16:50
SANOFI Company Symposium
Duration: 60 min

Chairs: Andris Rubins (Latvia); Silvestrs Rubins (Latvia)

From Trials to Triumphs: How we can translate the Evidence Based Medicine into successful clinical practice

15:50 - 16:10
One Fire, Many Flames: Type 2 Inflammation Across the Body
Duration: 20 min
16:10 - 16:30
Beyond the EASI Score: Redefining Success with Dupilumab in Severe AD
Duration: 20 min
16:30 - 16:50
Panelist discussion and Q&A
Duration: 20 min

Beyond the Guidelines: Experts Weigh In

16:50 - 18:10
Plenary Lectures
Duration: 80 min

Chairs: Skaidra Valiukeviciene, Igor Bartenjev, Axel zur Hausen

16:50 - 17:10
Kaposi’s Sarcoma 2025
Duration: 20 min
17:10 - 17:30
Algorithms for easy recognition of melanocytic lesions. Three points Checklist
Duration: 20 min
17:30 - 17:50
Linking Merkel cell polyomavirus and early B cells and skin oncology
Duration: 20 min
17:50 - 18:10
Adult Atopic Dermatitis: Characteristics and Management
Duration: 20 min
18:10 - 18:20
Congress Opening
Duration: 10 min

Opening speeches:

Andris Rubins, Skaidra Valiukeviciene, Ivars Kalvins - President Latvian Academy of Sciences, Kirov Lipman - Chairman of  the Council of JSC Grindex 

18:20 - 18:50
Opening Lecture: Synchronous teledermatology consultations for people in countryside and outlying islands in Taiwan: 6 years of weekly services
Duration: 30 min

Chair: A.Rubins

19:00 - 22:00
Welcome reception and Get together! (For all participants)
Duration: 180 min

Friday, November 7, 2025

08:30 - 12:00
Registration
Duration: 210 min
09:00 - 10:00
Young Doctors and Residents Symposium
Duration: 60 min

Chairs: TBA

09:00 - 09:10
Atypical Hidradenitis Suppurativa of the Lower Abdominal Fold
Duration: 10 min
Gaile Miseikyte (Lithuania)
09:10 - 09:20
Case report of patient with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and Scabies - UV, high magnification (HM) and optical dermatoscopy (OD)
Duration: 10 min
Sabīne Kristone (Latvia)
09:20 - 09:30
Granulomatous Dermatitis as a Cutaneous Manifestation of Multiple Myeloma: a Diagnostic Challenge
Duration: 10 min
Evelina Malukaite (Lithuania)
09:30 - 09:40
Ocular Cicatricial Pemphigoid
Duration: 10 min
Saule Jaskovikaite (Lithuania)
09:40 - 09:50
TBA
Duration: 10 min
09:50 - 10:00
Vitiligo as a Determinant in Biologic Therapy Selection for Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis
Duration: 10 min
Igne Gineityte (Lithuania)
10:00 - 10:25
PHARMACERIS Company Lecture
Duration: 25 min
10:00 - 10:25
Comprehensive Management of Rosacea: Adjunctive Care Beyond Pharmacotherapy
Duration: 25 min
10:25 - 10:50
SWIXXBIOPHARMA Company Lecture
Duration: 25 min
10:25 - 10:50
Rare inherited genetic disorder Epidermolysis bullosa
Duration: 25 min
10:50 - 11:10
Coffee break
Duration: 20 min
11:10 - 11:40
ABBVIE Company Lecture
Duration: 30 min
11:10 - 11:40
Perspectives of treatment options for psoriasis patients in Latvia
Duration: 30 min
11:40 - 12:10
What's New in Dermatological Therapy
Duration: 30 min

Chair: S.Rubins (Latvia

12:10 - 13:10
GRINDEKS Company Symposium
Duration: 60 min
12:10 - 13:10
Superficial Skin Lesions – Mechanical, Traumatic, and Superficial Infectious Lesions: Diagnosis and Treatment
Duration: 60 min
13:10 - 14:00
Lunch Break and Poster Session presentations
Duration: 50 min
14:00 - 15:00
Symposium/Plenary Lectures/Free Communication
Duration: 60 min
14:00 - 15:00
TBA
Duration: 60 min
15:00 - 16:00
Symposium “Sexually transmitted diseases”
Duration: 60 min

Chairs: S. Čaplinskas, S. Rubins

15:00 - 15:15
Migration, HIV/AIDS and Health System Leadership: Lessons from the Influx of Refugees from the War in Ukraine to the Baltic Region
Duration: 15 min
15:15 - 15:30
Neurosyphilis: Diagnostic Challenges
Duration: 15 min
15:30 - 15:45
STI in Latvia - Update
Duration: 15 min
15:45 - 16:00
Update of STI in Romania and Europe
Duration: 15 min
16:00 - 16:30
SANDOZ Company Lecture
Duration: 30 min
16:00 - 16:30
Crossroads of Gastroenterology and Dermatology – Biological Therapy. How to Recognize Inflammatory Bowel Diseases and Get Ahead of Colorectal Cancer
Duration: 30 min
16:30 - 17:00
Closing Ceremony
Duration: 30 min
19:00 - 22:00
Congress Dinner for invited persons only
Duration: 180 min

POSTER PRESENTATIONS (Virtually on November 6 and November 7 during lunch break)

Madara Celmina (Latvia) 

Dermatofibrosarcoma Protuberans Presenting on the Scalp: A Multimodal Diagnostic Approach in Clinical Dermatology 

Luize Septe (Latvia) 

Adalimumab biosimilar therapy for moderate to severe psoriasis vulgaris 

Christopher Karim (USA) 

Blue Lunula: Link to Systemic Disease 

Beatrice Kolesinskaite (Lithuania) 

Linear morphea with systemic involvement mimicking connective tissue disease: a diagnostic challenge 

William Clark Lambert (USA) 

Hidradenoma Papilliferum: Histologic Reappraisal of a Rare Tumor with Diagnostic Pitfalls 

Contact information about registration and website

President of Latvian and Baltic Association of Dermatovenerologists, Congress President

Prof. Andris Rubins, MD, PhD
+37129481725
arubins@apollo.lv

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