Positions

Overview

  • My primary expertise is in the area of skin cancer. My work has concentrated in this area since 1998. I am skilled at presenting patients with the latest evidence-based treatments and at guiding them to the option that suits them best. I am also knowledgeable about specific issues that skin cancer patients face and am well versed at informing patients of these and helping them deal with them
  • Selected Publications

    Academic Article

    Year Title Altmetric
    2022 Development of a core outcome set for basal cell carcinomaJournal of the American Academy of Dermatology.  87:573-581. 2022
    2022 Development of international clinical practice guidelines: benefits, limitations, and alternative forms of international collaborationArchives of Dermatological Research.  314:483-486. 2022
    2022 Broad versus narrow clinical practice guidelines: avoiding rules for the high risk 1%Archives of Dermatological Research.  314:385-387. 2022
    2022 Cost efficacy of wide local excision of pT1a melanoma in office versus operating room settingsJournal of the American Academy of Dermatology.  86:1174-1176. 2022
    2022 Principles for developing and adapting clinical practice guidelines and guidance for pandemics, wars, shortages, and other crises and emergencies: the PAGE criteriaArchives of Dermatological Research.  314:393-398. 2022
    2022 Institutional Adherence to Current Mohs Surgery Appropriate Use Criteria with Reasons for Nonadherence and Recommendations for Future VersionsDermatologic Surgery.  48:290-292. 2022
    2022 Management of Transected Invasive Melanoma: A Single Institution Retrospective ReviewDermatologic Surgery.  48:47-50. 2022
    2021 Patient Preferences and Perception of Value Regarding Postprocedural Patient-Generated PhotographsDermatologic Surgery.  47:563-564. 2021
    2021 Use of Chlorhexidine as a Surgical Antiseptic Among American College of Mohs Surgery Members-A Survey of Member Experience With Ocular and OtotoxicityDermatologic Surgery.  47:559-561. 2021
    2021 Assessing SPP1/Osteopontin (OPN) Splice Variants and Their Association to Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer by Absolute Quantification: Identification of OPN-5 Subvariants and Their Protein Coding PotentialCancer Investigation.  39:559-570. 2021
    2020 Efficacy of staged excision with permanent section margin control for melanoma in situJournal of the American Academy of Dermatology.  83:1163-1164. 2020
    2020 Management of acute opioid toxicity in the outpatient settingCutis.  106:68-69. 2020
    2020 Negative Predictive Value of Biopsy Margins in Keratinocyte Carcinoma: A Literature ReviewDermatologic Surgery.  46:525-529. 2020
    2020 Negative predictive value of biopsy margins of dysplastic nevi: A single-institution retrospective reviewJournal of the American Academy of Dermatology.  82:87-93. 2020
    2019 Initial skin cancer screening for solid organ transplant recipients in the United States: Delphi method development of expert consensus guidelinesTransplant International.  32:1268-1276. 2019
    2019 Sebaceous carcinoma: evidence-based clinical practice guidelines 2019
    2019 Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines for Microcystic Adnexal Carcinoma: Informed by a Systematic ReviewJAMA Dermatology.  155:1059-1068. 2019
    2019 Presentation, diagnosis, and management options of lipedematous alopeciaJAAD Case Reports.  5:108-109. 2019
    2018 Guidelines of care for the management of basal cell carcinomaJournal of the American Academy of Dermatology.  78:540-559. 2018
    2018 Guidelines of care for the management of cutaneous squamous cell carcinomaJournal of the American Academy of Dermatology.  78:560-578. 2018
    2018 Validity of skin cancer malignancy reporting to the Organ Procurement Transplant Network: A cohort studyJournal of the American Academy of Dermatology.  78:264-269. 2018
    2017 Randomized controlled pilot study of the preoperative use of brimonidine 0.33% topical gel for hemostasis in Mohs micrographic surgeryJournal of the American Academy of Dermatology.  77:1114-1118. 2017
    2017 Inflammatory melanoma in transit metastases with complete response to talimogene laherparepvecJAAD Case Reports.  3:280-283. 2017
    2017 Ultraviolet Radiation-Induced Downregulation of SERCA2 Mediates Activation of NLRP3 Inflammasome in Basal Cell CarcinomaPhotochemistry and Photobiology.  93:1025-1033. 2017
    2017 Photodynamic therapy effective for the treatment of actinic keratosis and basal cell carcinoma in bullous pemphigoid patientsPhotodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy.  18:257-259. 2017
    2017 Incidence of and risk factors for skin cancer in organ transplant recipients in the United StatesJAMA Dermatology.  153:296-303. 2017
    2017 Observation of dog-ear regression by anatomical locationDermatologic Surgery.  43:1367-1370. 2017
    2016 On the horizon: Optical imaging for cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma 2016
    2015 Topical oxymetazoline hydrochloride 0.05% as a strategy to reduce intraoperative wound oozing in mohs micrographic surgeryDermatologic Surgery.  41:749-750. 2015
    2015 Utility of Wood's light in margin determination of melanoma in situ after excisional biopsyDermatologic Surgery.  41:572-578. 2015
    2015 Successful treatment of refractory Hailey-Hailey disease with a 595-nm pulsed dye laser: A series of 7 casesJournal of the American Academy of Dermatology.  72:735-737. 2015
    2014 Using better understanding of anatomy to improve surgical assistants' utilityJournal of the American Academy of Dermatology.  71:e245-e246. 2014
    2014 Ablative fractionated CO2 resurfacing yields excellent result for severely atrophic traumatic scar on the faceJournal of drugs in dermatology : JDD.  13:861-862. 2014
    2013 Use of panitumumab-irdye800 to image cutaneous head and neck cancer in mice 2013
    2013 Identification of the optimal therapeutic antibody for fluorescent imaging of cutaneous squamous cell carcinomaCancer Biology and Therapy.  14:271-277. 2013
    2012 Significance of PC cell-derived growth factor and cyclin D1 expression in cutaneous squamous cell carcinomaClinical and Experimental Dermatology.  37:411-417. 2012
    2011 Cyclosporine a mediates pathogenesis of aggressive cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma by augmenting epithelial-mesenchymal transition: Role of TGFβ signaling pathwayMolecular Carcinogenesis.  50:516-527. 2011
    2010 Association between number of stages in Mohs micrographic surgery and surgeon-, patient-, and tumor-specific features: A cross-sectional study of practice patterns of 20 early- and mid-career Mohs surgeonsDermatologic Surgery.  36:1915-1920. 2010
    2009 Solitary plaque on the scalp as a primary manifestation of Hodgkin lymphoma: A case report and review of the literatureJournal of Cutaneous Pathology.  36:80-85. 2009
    2009 Pigmented extramammary Paget's disease of the axilla mimicking melanoma: Case report and review of the literatureJournal of Cutaneous Pathology.  36:995-1000. 2009
    2008 Refilling anesthesia without breaking scrubDermatologic Surgery.  34:1707-1708. 2008
    2007 Functional effects of protein sequence polymorphisms in the organic cation/ergothioneine transporter OCTN1 (SLC22A4).Pharmacogenetics and Genomics.  17:773-782. 2007
    2007 Rewired ERK-JNK Signaling Pathways in MelanomaCancer Cell.  11:447-460. 2007
    2006 Prospective study of wound infections in dermatologic surgery in the absence of prophylactic antibiotics: CommentaryDermatologic Surgery.  32:826-827. 2006
    2006 Pleomorphic basal cell carcinomaSouthern Medical Journal.  99:200. 2006
    2005 Distinctive clinical presentation of a NF-1 patient with loss of heterozygosity of PTCH in his epithelial tumorsInternational Journal of Dermatology.  44:831-836. 2005
    2005 Surgical Pearl: Preventing perioperative exposure keratopathyJournal of the American Academy of Dermatology.  53:707-708. 2005
    2005 Cutaneous carcinoma with mixed histologySouthern Medical Journal.  98:680. 2005
    2005 Surgical Pearl: The "fishhook" needle technique: A solution to the large needle, small space dilemmaJournal of the American Academy of Dermatology.  53:144-146. 2005
    2005 Functional analysis of polymorphisms in the organic anion transporter, SLC22A6 (OAT1).Pharmacogenetics and Genomics.  15:201-209. 2005
    2005 KLF4 and PCNA identify stages of tumor initiation in a conditional model of cutaneous squamous epithelial neoplasiaCancer Biology and Therapy.  4:1401-1408. 2005
    2005 Microstaging accuracy after subtotal incisional biopsy of cutaneous melanomaJournal of the American Academy of Dermatology.  52:798-802. 2005
    2004 Pyogenic granuloma caused by exposed sternotomy wires.Dermatologic Surgery.  30:1572-1573. 2004
    2004 Randomized, controlled surgical trial of preoperative tumor curettage of basal cell carcinoma in Mohs micrographic surgeryJournal of the American Academy of Dermatology.  51:585-591. 2004
    2004 Surgical margins of excision for basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinomaSeminars in Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery.  23:167-173. 2004
    2004 Dry eyes and superficial punctuate keratitis: A complication of treatment of glabelar dynamic rhytides with botulinum exotoxin ADermatologic Surgery.  30:1515-1517. 2004
    2004 New approaches to surgery of lentigo maligna.Skin therapy letter.  9:7-11. 2004
    2004 Pyogenic granuloma caused by exposed sternotomy wiresDermatologic Surgery.  30:1572-1573. 2004
    2002 Comparative gene expression profile analysis of GLI and c-MYC in an epithelial model of malignant transformationCancer Research.  62:5867-5873. 2002
    2001 Surgical pearl: Hemostat-assisted nail avulsion revisitedJournal of the American Academy of Dermatology.  45:943-944. 2001
    1998 Atlas of excision and repair.Dermatologic Clinics.  16:181-194. 1998
    1998 The lips. Excision and repair.Dermatologic Clinics.  16:127-143. 1998
    1990 Bone acidic glycoprotein-75 is a major synthetic product of osteoblastic cells and localized as 75- and/or 50-kDa forms in mineralized phases of bone and growth plate and in serum.Journal of Biological Chemistry.  265:14956-14963. 1990

    Chapter

    Year Title Altmetric
    2019 Regional anesthesia.  91-106. 2019
    2012 Merkel cell carcinoma.  89-100. 2012
    2008 Cutaneous effects of immunosuppressive medications.  67-79. 2008

    Research Overview

  • Cutaneous oncology, procedural optimization, dermatologic surgery
  • Education And Training

  • Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Internship
  • Henry Ford Hospital, Residency
  • University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • Doctor of Medicine, University of Missouri System : Kansas City 1992
  • Full Name

  • Conway Huang