Acne in Paris: Croissants, Comedones & Cutting-Edge Care at EADV 2025 Guests: Dr. Chloe Ward & Dr. Natalie Cunningham Location: 📍 EADV 2025, Paris 🇫🇷 From café chatter to late-breaker abstracts, this fresh field report stitches together breaking new data and what matters for acne care today. Our two Canadian derm Faculty dynamos, Dr. Chloe Ward and Dr. Natalie Cunningham, join us live from EADV 2025 to decode acne in the TikTok age. We swap “Dr. Google” for real talk on psychosocial fallout (filters, FOMO, and 4 a.m. routines), sanity-check the diet myths, and map where AI actually helps in assessment—think consistent severity tracking and smarter primary-care triage—without replacing clinical eyes (especially in richer skin tones). Drs. Ward and Cunningham unpack multimodal regimens patients can actually tolerate, topical androgen-receptor blockade at the sebaceous unit, and smarter maintenance so scars don’t steal the show. We dig into pigment beyond classic PIH (hello, primary melanogenesis), when energy devices earn a seat (including a 1726-nm sebaceous-targeting laser), why most at-home red light is a detour, and the rare moments biologics enter the chat for overlap/refractory cases. Throughout: practical pearls and fresh evidence Learning Objectives After this episode, participants will be able to: 🧠 Assess psychosocial burden in acne (sleep 💤, stress 😰, social media behaviors 📱) and integrate into severity and treatment decisions 🩺. 🥗 Debunk prevalent myths (“diet cures acne” ❌) with balanced, evidence-based counseling 📖 that acknowledges diet/stress/hormones as contributors, not sole causes ⚖️. 🧴 Design patient-centered, multimodal regimens that optimize efficacy ✅ and tolerability 🤝—leveraging combination therapy 🔗. 🧬 Explain mechanisms (incl. topical androgen-receptor blockade at the sebaceous gland) and position them in stepwise care from induction 🚀 to maintenance 🔁. 🎨 Differentiate pigment pathways (PIH vs. emerging primary melanogenesis) and tailor strategies for all skin tones 🌈 with rigorous photoprotection 🧢🕶️. 🤖 Use AI judiciously for documentation 📝 and triage 🏥; recognize limitations in diverse skin tones 🌍 and keep the patient’s lived experience central ❤️. 🛡️ Prevent scars proactively by identifying scar-risk patients early ⏱️ and escalating appropriately (e.g., isotretinoin candidacy) 🎯. 🔦 Outline the role of energy-based devices (including the 1726-nm sebaceous-targeting laser) in reducing inflammation 🔥, erythema 🌺, and remodeling 🧱—and why most at-home red-light devices fall short 🚫🔴. 🧬 Spot the edge cases where biologics or overlap-syndrome thinking may be appropriate 🧩, and outline key research gaps to watch 🔭 (hormonal pathways, AI validation, long-term maintenance). Perfect for Dermatologists, primary-care clinicians, pharmacists, nurses, and any HCP who fields “I saw this on TikTok…” and wants practical, patient-first ways to translate Paris-level science into Monday-morning care. Supported by an IME Grant from SUN Pharma.
Acne in Paris: Croissants, Comedones & Cutting-Edge Care at EADV 2025
Guests: Dr. Chloe Ward & Dr. Natalie Cunningham
Location: 📍 EADV 2025, Paris 🇫🇷
From café chatter to late-breaker abstracts, this fresh field report stitches together breaking new data and what matters for acne care today.
Our two Canadian derm Faculty dynamos, Dr. Chloe Ward and Dr. Natalie Cunningham, join us live from EADV 2025 to decode acne in the TikTok age. We swap “Dr. Google” for real talk on psychosocial fallout (filters, FOMO, and 4 a.m. routines), sanity-check the diet myths, and map where AI actually helps in assessment—think consistent severity tracking and smarter primary-care triage—without replacing clinical eyes (especially in richer skin tones).
Drs. Ward and Cunningham unpack multimodal regimens patients can actually tolerate, topical androgen-receptor blockade at the sebaceous unit, and smarter maintenance so scars don’t steal the show.
We dig into pigment beyond classic PIH (hello, primary melanogenesis), when energy devices earn a seat (including a 1726-nm sebaceous-targeting laser), why most at-home red light is a detour, and the rare moments biologics enter the chat for overlap/refractory cases.
Throughout: practical pearls and fresh evidence
Learning Objectives
After this episode, participants will be able to:
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ABOUT Dr Natalie Cunningham, MD FRCPC HALIFAX, NS
Dr. Cunningham is a co-founder of Maritime Dermatology and was born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her roots are in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia and Vienna, Austria. She completed a Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience, Medical School and Dermatology Residency, serving as chief resident, at Dalhousie University. She passed her Royal College examination in 2017. She has been active in medical education and is assistant professor in the department of medicine at Dalhousie medical school. She sees patients of all ages and has a pediatric dermatology clinic at the IWK where she also supervises medical students and residents. She is active in research and has publications in high impact scientific journals and is the research director at Maritime Dermatology.
ABOUT Dr. Chloé Ward, MD, FRCP(C), DABD OTTAWA, ON
Chloé Ward, MD, FRCP(C), DABD is a board-certified dermatologist working alongside our team of plastic surgeons at The Ottawa Clinic. She specializes in cutaneous laser surgery and helps patients with a wide range of cosmetic and medical skin care needs.
ABOUT Dr Natalie Cunningham, MD FRCPC HALIFAX, NS
Dr. Cunningham is a co-founder of Maritime Dermatology and was born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her roots are in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia and Vienna, Austria. She completed a Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience, Medical School and Dermatology Residency, serving as chief resident, at Dalhousie University. She passed her Royal College examination in 2017. She has been active in medical education and is assistant professor in the department of medicine at Dalhousie medical school. She sees patients of all ages and has a pediatric dermatology clinic at the IWK where she also supervises medical students and residents. She is active in research and has publications in high impact scientific journals and is the research director at Maritime Dermatology.
ABOUT Dr. Chloé Ward, MD, FRCP(C), DABD OTTAWA, ON
Chloé Ward, MD, FRCP(C), DABD is a board-certified dermatologist working alongside our team of plastic surgeons at The Ottawa Clinic. She specializes in cutaneous laser surgery and helps patients with a wide range of cosmetic and medical skin care needs.
Supported by an IME Grant from SUN Pharma.