Dermatology & Skin Care

PD Dr. Julia-Tatjana Maul is a senior physician in the Department of Dermatology at the University Hospital of Zürich (USZ), Switzerland, and completed her habilitation at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Zürich (UZH) awarding her the title of Privat Dozent (PD). She is the head of the clinical trials team in dermatology and the leading physician of the psoriasis and hidradenitis suppurative clinic. In addition, she is the principal investigator (PI) of several clinical trials such as the national PI of the Swiss psoriasis registry SDNTT (Swiss Dermatology Network for Targeted Therapy) and the International pustular psoriasis registry IRASPEN. PD Dr. Maul graduated from Medical School at the University of Tübingen, Germany, in 2011. Between 2011 and 2013 she did part of her residency in the Oncology Department at the University Hospital of Zürich prior to transitioning to the Department of Dermatology. PD Dr. Maul's main research activities are aimed at inflammatory skin diseases. Since 2022, she has been leading her own research group at the USZ with the aim of elucidating gender differences and underlying immunological mechanisms, as well as differences in response and access to treatments, with a particular focus on psoriasis. She holds a leadership position at the Global Psoriasis Atlas (GPA) as their `Global Medical Coordinator` and is a Councilor of the International Psoriasis Council (IPC). Furthermore, she is involved in the European Psoriasis Guidelines and co-authored the chapters cancer, pregnancy, and diabetes. Due to her strong interest in psoriasis-associated gender medicine, she is a part of the commission "Sex and Gender in Medicine" of the Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich, American Women´s Society of Dermatology, and Co-Chair of the Pregnancy Task Force of the European Association of Dermatology and Venereology. In recent years, she has been leading the international research project "Access to treatment" to facilitate access to medications and therapies for affected individuals around the globe with the `Global Healthcare Study on Psoriasis`

Dermatology

I am a cancer epidemiologist, and Deputy Director of the Daffodil Centre, a joint venture between Cancer Council NSW and the University of Sydney, in Sydney, Australia. I am also a Faculty member of the Melanoma Institute Australia, where I co-lead the ‘Prevention, Risk and Clinical Detection’ research theme. I am currently the recipient of a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator Grant. I completed a Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts at the University of Queensland, Australia, in 1998, and subsequently a Master of Public Health (Honours) degree from The University of Sydney in 2002. I worked in perinatal research and clinical trials at The University of Sydney before completing a Ph.D. in cancer epidemiology from 2004-2007, under a cotutelle agreement between the University of Sydney and the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 in France, where I was based with the WHO International Agency for Research on Cancer. Subsequently, I obtained an NHMRC postdoctoral fellowship working on the genetic epidemiology of melanoma at the University of Melbourne. I returned to Sydney in 2011 to continue my research in collaboration with the University of Sydney and Melanoma Institute Australia, and in 2021 I joined the new Daffodil Centre, which is one of the University’s Flagship research centres. My research interests are predominantly in skin cancer etiology, prevention, and early detection, including risk-stratified approaches to care, with a strong emphasis on multidisciplinary, translational, and implementation research. I led the Australian sunbed research that was instrumental in informing government bans on commercial solaria now in effect across all states of Australia, and in 2015, I received an inaugural Sax Institute Research Action Award to recognize this research and its impact on health policy. In 2018, I received the NSW Premier’s Award for Outstanding Cancer Research Fellow of the Year. I have expertise in epidemiology, clinical trials, observational studies, and qualitative research

Dermatology

She is an Associate Professor in Genetic Epidemiology at the Medical Research Council – Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, UK. My expertise is in the genetic epidemiology of atopic dermatitis. I have led several large international GWAS meta-analyses of atopic dermatitis within the EAGLE consortium. My research now also includes functionally characterizing the identified genetic associations using in silico bioinformatic approaches that combine multiple layers of omics data, as well as using these genetic associations as instruments to assess causality in observational associations using a statistical technique called Mendelian Randomisation. I teach genetic epidemiology to undergraduate, Master's, and postgraduate students. My interest in genetics started during A-levels at School. I studied Biology at York University and then moved to Edinburgh for an MSc in Quantitative Genetics and Genome Analysis. I also received my PhD in Stroke Genetics from the University of Edinburgh, before taking up my first post-doc position in Bristol in 2009 to analyze the newly generated genome-wide data in the ALSPAC cohort. A love of Bristol ensued, and I remain here over a decade later, now with a family, including two young children, who occasionally let me practice yoga and Pilates, cycle, paddle-board and go sailing

Dermatology

Esche completed his US dermatology training at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Esche has authored more than 70 scientific publications and received more than 10 academic awards for his research. He was recognized with the Patient's Choice Award in 2013 and 2018, and the On-Time Doctor Award in 2015.

Dermatology

After completing my residency as a dermatologist and allergologist at the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany, with internships at Stanford University, Palo Alto, and the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA, I worked two years in a large group practice in Frankfurt. From 1998 to 2008 I run my own private practice near Frankfurt. After moving to Switzerland, I worked at the University Hospital Zurich for 8 years, where I directed the clinic for Aesthetic Dermatology and Laser Medicine for 3 years. Since April 2014, I dedicated myself exclusively to the work in my own clinic. I am licensed for laser treatments and accredited by the Laser Commission as a training center. Aesthetic and laser medicine have become my main topics in recent years. My clinic offers the full range of state-to-the-art laser devices that are used in dermatology. As President of the Swiss Society for Medical Laser Applications (SGML) I take responsibility for the Swiss Laser Congress.

Dermatology

Takuya Kajisa has completed his PhD from Juntendo University and is the head of the Plastic Surgery Department at Juntendo University

Dermatology

Dermatologist graduated in Medicine and with a medical residency in Dermatology from the Federal University of Goiás. Fellow in Dermatological Surgery

Dermatology

Hello! I am Federico Bianchi, I am a post-doctoral researcher at Stanford University with Prof. Dan Jurafsky. I was a post-doctoral researcher at Bocconi University (with Prof. Dirk Hovy), Milan, Italy. I did my PhD at the University of Milano Bicocca (with Prof. Matteo Palmonari).

Dermatology

Dr. Michelle S. Min is a dermatologist in New York, New York and is affiliated with UCI Medical Center. She received her medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine and has been in practice between 6-10 years.

Dermatologists diagnose and treat diseases of the skin and perform cosmetic procedures, including hair removal, laser therapy, cosmetic filler injections, cryosurgery, tattoo removal, and phototherapy.

I joined the faculty at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) in the Department of Dermatology in 2015. I hold an undergraduate degree in Human Biology and a Master’s degree in Sociology from Stanford University. I worked in international health research before completing my medical training at Harvard Medical School in 2010, followed by residency training at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn). I also received training in epidemiology and biostatistics and received a Masters of Science degree in Clinical Epidemiology from Penn. My research focuses on understanding long-term outcomes in atopic dermatitis including the impact of environmental and sociocultural factors on disease course.

Atopic dermatitis