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Professor Lambert is professor and academic chair of the dermatology department at Ghent University. She obtained her dermatology training at the university and her PhD in medical sciences in melanosome transport, awarded with the Roche Fundamental Research Award. Research stays were performed at Boston University, United States; Leiden Center for Electron Microscopy, the Netherlands; the dermatology department at Hôpital E Herriot, Lyon, France; and St John’s Dermatology Department, London, United Kingdom. Professor Lambert is president of the Royal Belgian Society of Dermatology and Venereology and a board member of the Royal Academy of Medicine, Belgium, and the Fondation René Touraine (FRT). She also serves as president of the Skin Inflammation and Psoriasis International (SPIN) Network of FRT, belongs to several advisory boards in psoriasis, and is a member of the European Dermatology Forum. Since 2014, she has been an editorial assistant for the Journal of Investigative Dermatology in the field of psoriasis and human skin pigmentation. Her interests include improving management of immune-mediated inflammatory skin disorders through an evidencebased, integrated research approach.

Last Updated: Oct 09, 2018

Dr. April Armstrong is Associate Dean at Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC). She also serves as Director of Clinical Research Support at the Southern California Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI). Dr. Armstrong also serves as Vice Chair and Director of Psoriasis Program in the dermatology department at USC. Dr. Armstrong obtained her MD and completed dermatology residency at Harvard. She also obtained a MPH in Clinical Effectiveness from Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Armstrong is highly committed to clinical research and the care of patients with inflammatory skin diseases such as psoriasis and atopic dermatitis. Her research in focuses on (1) investigating comorbidities related to psoriasis and atopic dermatitis, (2) identifying treatment patterns, treatment goals, and economic burden of inflammatory skin disease, and (3) increasing patient access using innovative, technology-enabled healthcare delivery methods. She has conducted over 100 clinical trials and published over 210 articles in scientific journals. She holds multiple leadership positions at professional societies, including the National Psoriasis Foundation, Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis (GRAPPA), the International Psoriasis Council, and the American Academy of Dermatology. She is an associate Editor for JAMA Dermatology and has also served on the editorial boards of JAAD and Telemedicine and eHealth.

Last Updated: Jul 31, 2019

Luigi Naldi took a diploma in Classical Studies and a Degree in Industrial Design at Scuola Politecnica di Design in Milan before moving to Medicine. He graduated as a medical doctor at the University of Pavia in 1981. From 1984 to 1986 he was a junior investigator at the Laboratory of Clinical Pharmacology of the Mario Negri Institute in Milan. In 1988 he moved to the clinical arena (Dermatology) at the Department of Dermatology of the University of Milan, Bergamo General Hospital. He always considered the clinical setting as the natural laboratory for clinical research. Since 1986 he is coordinating a collaborative research group in Italy, the Italian Group for Epidemiologic Research in Dermatology (GISED). He is a co-founder of the European Dermatoepidemiology Network (EDEN). In 2003, he established a research center at the Bergamo General Hospital, Centro Studi GISED, with the aim of promoting integrated clinical research programs in Dermatology.

Last Updated: Apr 05, 2017

Prof. Lluís Puig is Director of the Dermatology Department at Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau (HSCSP) in Barcelona and Prof. of Dermatology at Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) Medical School. Prof. Puig received a medical degree (Hon) at the Medical Faculty of UAB and was a recipient of the Special Curricular Award upon graduating in 1982. In 1987 he completed his residency training in Dermatology at HSCSP Department of Dermatology and received the Spanish Board Certificate in Medical-Surgical Dermatology and Venereology. In 1991 he completed his PhD on pharmacologic modulation of lipid inflammatory mediators in psoriasis at UAB, and was recipient to the Special Award for doctoral theses during that year. Prof. Puig worked as a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Biomedical Research. His body of work includes nine research projects, on a wide variety of subjects related to the pathophysiology of psoriasis, experimental pharmacology and inmunohistopathology, among others. Over the past ten years, Prof. Puig has focused his clinical research on treatment of psoriasis with biological agents and has participated in 21 clinical trials to date. The results of his research have been presented at both national and international meetings, have been the subject of more than 250 papers, including review articles and continuous medical education papers, and 10 international book chapters. Prof. Puig is an Editorial Board Member of Piel, Actas Dermosifiliogrficas, Medicina Cutnea Latinoamericana, Medicina Clnica, among other journals. He served as a reviewer for a wide number of scientific publications including the Archives of Dermatology, the British Journal of Dermatology and the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and is a founding member of several working groups of the Spanish Academy of Dermatology and Venereology. He is a member of the EADV, AAD, ESDR, ASDP, ISDP, GRAPPA, and other societies. He is a board member of the International Psoriasis Council.

Last Updated: Jan 26, 2018

Dr. Mrowietz is the Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Dermatological Research, and a member of the Executive Board of the German Dermatological Association, as well as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Psoriasis Association. He is also a member of numerous national and international dermatological societies. Prof. Mrowietz' main scientific and clinical interests are psoriasis and psoriasis therapy, wound healing and pathological scarring. He has 118 published articles referenced in the Medline data base, and has written numerous chapters in textbooks incl. Fitzpatrick's Dermatology in General Medicin and Braun-Falco's Dermatologie und Venerology. Furthermore, Dr. Mrowietz has written four books in German about psoriasis (for patients and physicians), immunosuppressive therapy and cyclosporin in dermatology. Prof. Mrowietz has been awarded the Oscar-Gans-F_rderpreis in 1993 and the Presi den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs der orddeutschen Hautk

Last Updated: Apr 05, 2017