At Skin of Color Update 2019, our co-chair and co-founder, Andrew Alexis, MD, MPH gave a lecture on Acne: What’s New and What’s to Come? Our onsite correspondent, Kimberly Huerth, MD, M. Ed, provided the following recap of this is insightful session. The read the full article, please visit Next Steps in Derm website. Missed Skin of Color Update 2019? Purchase lectures like this on-demand.
By: Kimberly Huerth, MD, M. Ed
I still treat my acne twice daily with a whole cabinet full of various topicals. I’ve tried and failed doxycycline because it disrupts every single molecule of bacterial flora in my body. I’ve tried and failed spironolactone because I was the poster child for nearly all of its annoying and inconvenient side effects. I’ve tried and failed several OCPs because my body was a little too convinced by the estrogen and progesterone that it was actually pregnant, and decided to make me persistently sleepy and nauseous. I could put the 650-microsecond Nd:YAG that we have in clinic to use, but can’t bring myself to bother my co-rezzys (or myself) at the end of a long day seeing patients. And yes, I’ve already done a course of isotretinoin…two courses in fact. And no, I don’t have PCOS. So when I settled in to hear Dr. Andrew Alexis’s lecture on Acne in Skin of Color: What’s new and what’s to come?, I was excited for some new strategies with which to help my patients, and myself.
Dr. Alexis not only shared expert insights and strategies on how to optimize treatment for acne in skin of color (SOC) patients, but he also laid out an overview of some of the new and emerging acne treatments that we will presently be able to add to our armamentarium!
This article will provide an overview of the following:
- Understanding the unique presentation and needs of SOC patients with acne
- Sarecycline, a new tetracycline class antibiotic
- New topical acne medications in the pipeline
But first, let me share a few of the “A-ha” moments that I experienced during Dr. Alexis’s lecture, in the hope that they will entice you to read on…
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