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All Smiles After A Fantastic Media Event: (shown from left) Lenore Kakita, MD, Kerry Parker, WDS Executive Director, Susan Weinkle, MD, and Wendy Roberts, MD, Media Day Chair.


Elizabeth McBurney, MD (L) and Mary Lupo, MD, WDS President (R) with Rachel McLish, the world's first Ms. Olympia.

Good Housekeeping editor leaves event with a gift bag chocked filled with goodies, and copious notes from her LOVE YOUR SKIN sessions with WDS dermatologists.


WDS MEDIA DAY, LOVE YOUR SKIN! REACHES RECORD NUMBER OF NATIONAL MAGAZINE EDITORS WITH UNIQUE MEDIA EVENT

Beauty And Fashion "Editor's Dream" Becomes Fabulous Reality Atop Rockefeller Center

(February, 2007—New York, NY)— In the words of a top glamour magazine editor whose notepad was filled with copious notes from her enlightening expert circles at the recent WDS Media Day, "This was "an "Editor's Dream!" Indeed, LOVE YOUR SKIN! was a brilliant and exciting festival of expertise, featuring an unprecedented gathering of twenty nationally recognized dermatologic experts, all highly esteemed WDS members.

Media guests representing 43 national magazines and websites, plus several freelance writers and corporate sponsors, benefited from ten fascinating roundtable presentations by twenty outstanding WDS members, covering the latest developments in skin and hair for people of all ages and skin types. With props, studies, statistics and insights about social, medical and cosmetic trends, the WDS experts armed a receptive and savvy media crowd with fresh, solid news they can use.

Among the many national magazines represented at LOVE YOUR SKIN! were:

  • Allure
  • Elle
  • Glamour
  • Family Circle
  • Parenting
  • Real Simple
  • InStyle
  • CosmoGirl
  • Cosmopolitan
  • UrbanBaby
  • You
  • Drugstore News
  • SHAPE
  • Health
  • Modern Bride
  • Teen Vogue
  • Seventeen
  • All You
  • Marie Claire
  • Flip.com
  • Cutis Magazine
  • Financial Times
  • Working Mother
  • Essence
  • Golf for Women
  • Women's Health
  • Dermatology Focus
  • Good Housekeeping
  • Quick & Simple
  • American Spa
  • Al Roker Productions
  • Child Magazine
  • Ladies Home Journal
  • Skin & Allergy News

  • Plus Several Freelancers

Corporate sponsors participated in the sessions as well, including representatives from Presenting Sponsor, Allergan, Transportation Sponsor, Unilever and gift bag sponsors Johnson & Johnson, DermAvance, Cabana Life, TESS, Agera and Galderma.

 Expert circles were led by the following WDS members:
- MEET OUR EXPERTS: Bios On Our Expert Circle Presenters (Or click on individuals below)
- AVAILABLE BY EMAIL! Request WDS Media Day Synopses For All Presentations (Individual topics below)

In addition, Rachel McLish, the world's first Ms. Olympia, described her commitment to skin health and beauty, noting that she does indeed now love her skin, thanks to her dermatologist!

Through this unique and information-rich event, thanks to the dedication of the "Dream Team" under the leadership of Media Day chair Wendy Roberts, an important goal was fulfilled...which is to make an impact on Americans through the media to promote skin health and help people of all ages build better relationships with their own skin.


For further information about Women’s Dermatologic Society, visit:
www.womensderm.org
www.playsafeinthesun.org


Contact Kerry Parker, Executive Director, at 1-877-WDS-ROSE

The Women's Dermatologic Society supports the careers and professional development of women dermatologists. The mission of the Women’s Dermatologic Society is to help women in dermatology achieve their greatest personal and professional potential by striving to: foster, promote, and support women’s issues in dermatology; identify, train, and recognize women leaders in dermatology; and provide a forum for developing relationships.






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