Jonathan Barker, MD, is Professor of Medical Dermatology at St John’s Institute of Dermatology, King’s College London and honorary consultant dermatologist at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s Hospitals specializing in complex hospital based medical dermatology. He is senior consultant in the severe psoriasis service and co-director of the Skin Therapy Research Unit which conducts academic and commercially sponsored clinical studies and trials. Professor Barker is the current President of International Psoriasis Council having previously been a board member and chair of the scientific committee. He is a principal investigator in national and international consortia using genetic and multi-omic approaches to discover causal disease mechanisms, new drug targets and biomarkers of disease subtypes and outcomes to therapeutic interventions. These are being applied to important chronic skin diseases such as psoriasis, acne and eczema. Professor Barker has published over 300 peer-reviewed papers, authored and edited several books including the latest (9th) edition of Rook’s Textbook of Dermatology. Highly cited publications include those in the Lancet, Nature Genetics and New England Journal of Medicine. Professor Barker was head of department at the Institute of Dermatology 2002-2018 and course director of the Institute’s MSc Clinical Dermatology for overseas graduates. He is a past President of the European Dermatology Forum and the European Society for Dermatological Research. He is an honorary overseas member of several national dermatological associations including Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, and the USA.

Last Updated: Oct 04, 2018

Professor Bachelez is professor at the Department of Dermatology of the Saint-Louis University Hospital in Paris, France. Since 2004, Professor Bachelez has been full professor of clinical dermatology at the Université Paris-Diderot/Université de Paris, where he received his Ph.D. in immunology in 1999. Professor Bachelez’s clinical and scientific research focuses on immunogenetics of inflammatory skin diseases at the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) at the Imagine Institute in Necker Hospital. His areas of scientific interest include molecular mechanisms of psoriasis and psoriasis-related diseases, and other immune-mediated and inflammatory skin diseases. Professor Bachelez has received several scientific awards, including the Robert Degos award. He is a member of several national and international scientific societies, including the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology and the European Dermatology Forum (EDF). He is a board member of the International Psoriasis Council, and general secretary-Treasurer-elect of the European Society for Dermatological Research (ESDR). Professor Bachelez has published more than 230 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine , The Lancet , Journal of Clinical Investigation , and Arthritis and Rheumatism as leading author.

Last Updated: Jul 01, 2019

Professor Iversen, an IPC councilor since 2009, is professor in dermatology at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, where he also teaches dermato-venereology. He received his clinical education and obtained a doctoral degree from the same university. Professor Iversen's main research interests are psoriasis and cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Most of his research activities are related to signal transduction and immunology. Professor Iversen has served as a guest researcher and has been a speaker at international conferences in Asia, Europe and the United States. He is the author or co-author of 155 articles and book chapters and the holder of one patent. He serves as a section editor for Acta Dermato-Venereologica and on the editorial board of Experimental Dermatology. His writings have appeared in several scientific journals including Nature Immunology, PNAS, the Journal of Immunology, and the Journal of Investigative Dermatology. Professor Iversen has chaired IPC's Topical Therapy Working Group since 2013.

Last Updated: Jan 25, 2018

Dr. Cordoro is a Professor of Dermatology and Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the Chief of Pediatric Dermatology and the Pediatric Dermatology Fellowship Director at UCSF. She received her M.D. from Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, completed Dermatology Residency at the University of Virginia and a Pediatric Dermatology Fellowship at UCSF. Her clinical focus is complex medical dermatology, particularly inflammatory diseases, in children. Her primary research interest is pediatric psoriasis, for which she earned a prestigious Dermatology Foundation Career Development Award. She is a founding member of the Pediatric Dermatology Research Alliance (PeDRA) and the Co-Chair of the Psoriasis Investigator Group of PeDRA. She has several leadership positions within the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) including Chair of several psoriasis-related educational working groups and Deputy Chair of the Leadership Development Steering Committee. Dr. Cordoro is Assistant Editor for Pediatric Dermatology for the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology , a member of the editorial board of Pediatric Dermatology , and the Dermatology Content Editor for the New England Journal of Medicine Knowledge Plus Program. She has been an IPC Councilor since 2017.

Last Updated: May 27, 2019

Dr. Omid Zargari was born in northern Iran, near the beautiful shores of the Caspian Sea. He entered the National University of Iran in Tehran and got his MD from this University in 1992. After three years working as a general practitioner, he started the four-yearperiod of residency in dermatology departments of Loghman and Booali hospitals in Tehran. He was awarded the Iranian board of dermatology in 1999. Then he returned to the north of Iran and started his work as a dermatologist in a leprosy clinic, Guilan skin research center and Guilan University of Medical Sciences. He has published numerous scientific articles in different fields of dermatology and is a member of a number of professional organizations including the American Academy of Dermatology. In 2003 Dr. Zargari was selected as the best researcher of the Guilan University of Medical Sciences.

Last Updated: Jan 25, 2018