The Arc of Disease Control in Psoriasis: Early Interception – Deep Pathway Blockade – Treatment Failure

2026 SOCIETY FOR INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY (SID) | CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, UNITED STATES

May 13, 2026

| 08:00-11:30 CST

Location: Hilton Chicago | Room: Continental B, Lobby Level

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Agenda

Welcome and Introduction
Johann Gudjonsson, MD, PhD, United States

Intercepting Psoriasis at the Earliest Stages: Lessons from STEP-IN and GUIDE
Knut Schäkel, MD, Germany

Preventing Psoriatic Arthritis: Can Immune Interception Change the Natural Disease Course?
Shikha Singla, MD, United States

Implications of Controlling Psoriasis Inflammation: From Molecular Profiling to Comorbidities
Alex Tsoi, MS, PhD, United States

Oral Versus Biologics – Targeted or Broader Approaches?
Christopher Bunick, MD, PhD, United States

BREAK

Why Treatment Fails: Interferons, Immune Rewiring, and Biological Escape Mechanisms
Curdin Conrad, MD, Switzerland

Clinical Escape in Psoriasis: Paradoxical Reactions and Flip-Flop Phenomena
Wilson Liao, MD, United States

Case Presentations

Closing Comments
Curdin Conrad, MD, Switzerland

Program Chair

Program Faculty

This symposium is supported in part by:

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Agenda

Program Chair

University Hospital of Lausanne

Lausanne, Switzerland

IPC Board Member

University of Michigan, Department of Dermatology

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

IPC Board Member

Program Faculty

Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

IPC Councilor

University of California San Francisco

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IPC Councilor

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IPC Councilor

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