Expert Interviews

RAD 2025: Yale dermatologist Mona Shahriari, MD, urged primary care clinicians to refer patients with AD who don't improve to prevent cumulative emotional burden.

RAD 2025: Expert insights on the psychosocial burden of AD, flexible dosing, and cross-specialty collaboration in pediatric care.

RAD 2025: Johann Gudjonsson, MD, PhD, on investigational AD treatments, including anti–IL-31 receptor antibodies, anti–IL-13 treatments, IL-4 receptor blockers, JAK inhibitors, and new topical agents.

RAD 2025: Brad Glick, DO, MPH, discusses the intensity of TSW symptoms and cautions against assuming there is mental health disturbance at work.

Johann Gudjonsson, MD, discusses how OX-40/OX-40L signaling drives immune activation in AD and its emerging role as a genetic and therapeutic target.

The literature on topical steroid withdrawal syndrome is scant, Glick says; we're learning more about it, but we need more research to help our patients.

RAD 2025: Peter Lio, MD, discussed the benefits of disease-specific meetings, the evolving AD landscape, and why continuity across sessions enhances clinician education.

RAD 2025: Glick spoke to Patient Care about the similarities between TSW and a flare of atopic dermatitis as well as specific signs now being identified d as characteristic.

The American College of Lifestyle Medicine recently published "that guideline," and lead author Richard Rosenfeld, MD, MPH, MBA, says the timing was right.

At RAD 2025, pediatric dermatologist Elizabeth Swanson, MD, discussed the value of focused AD education and anticipated label expansions for several treatments.