SUMMER WINTER 20182015–2016 67 Skin cancer registries P6 MEPs Against Cancer meeting in Brussels > Patient assocation news P10 EFPO supporting patients with hidradenitis suppurativa > The leading European News Dermatologists meet professional organisation tattooists in Paris for Dermatology and P15 During the 27th EADV Congress > Venereology 10th EADV Dermatological P16 Meeting 29 November 2018, Bellinzona, Switzerland > Welcome to 27thEADV CONGRESS Paris! 12-16 SEPTEMBER 2018 PARIS, FRANCE President Prof Luca Borradori, together with his successor, Prof Carle Paul, and Past President Prof Erwin Tschachler, feature eminent specialists discussing the do’s and don’ts in clinical practice regarding lasers, pigmented skin lesions, We are delighted to welcome you The programme is organised in 3 tracks: acne, and syphilis and STIs. to our 27th Annual Congress, which is review and updates, training and being held close to the Arc de Triomphe educational forums, and expert In addition, there are also practical in the heart of Paris. forums where renowned leaders share workshops covering basic surgery, their insights and experience. This allergology, phlebology, atopic dermatitis, One of our aims has always been to bring year’s EADV President’s Symposium basic laser treatment, advanced surgery, together as many talented and up-and- lectures, introduced by outgoing and STI diagnosis and treatment. coming professionals with different backgrounds as we can – not just from Finally, the Congress wraps up with the Europe – and we are looking forward to Focus on: Clinical Oncology popular full-day Aesthetic Sunday sharing ideas and insights with colleagues programme which covers basic, advanced and speakers from over a hundred different 3 tracks: and hot topics in cosmetic and aesthetic dermatology. countries from across the Americas, Asia, • Review and Updates Africa and Australasia. For full programme details please go • Training & Educational As ever, the four-day programme is packed to https://eadvparis2018.org/ with the latest science and research across Forum For information about CME-CPD credits, all areas of dermatology and venereology, • Expert Forum please see page 8. with a particular focus this year on I look forward to seeing you all soon! l clinical oncology. Highlights include Plus: Aesthetic Sunday, genetic predisposition, genetic causes and Patient Society Village, Brigitte Dréno MD PhD the environment; targeting the tumour; Workshops… Chair, Scientific and Programming melanoma, lymphomas; non-melanoma Committee skin cancer; rare skin tumours; and the > adverse effects of chemotherapies and Full details: targeted therapies. https://eadvparis2018.org 1 Update from the SPC Committee A big thank-you to the SPC members! For the past two years, the annual The programme focuses exclusively on EADV Congress has been the largest medical dermatology to provide the best dermatology congress worldwide and training for ourselves and our peers, and Prof Martin EADV membership has increased by 50% the consequent top treatment for our Röcken - why this success? patients. In addition, the SPC has initiated the Aesthetic Sunday programme to satisfy FFour years ago, the four members of the requests for excellence and training the Scientific Programming Committee in aesthetics and cosmetic dermatology. (SPC): Prof Lajos Kemeny (representing With the help of renowned specialists in the Eastern region), Dr Catherine van these fields, they have combined their Monfrans (Northern region), Prof knowledge and experience to provide an Brigitte Dréno (Western region) and Prof exceptional programme and training in Piergiacomo Calzavara Pinton (Southern aesthetic dermatology. Prof Brigitte region), together with their partners Prof Dréno Branka Marinovic and Prof Margarida This is all supported by Nadja Hirzel and Goncalo, started to restructure the Viktor Trendafilov and the rest of the scientific programme of EADV congresses. scientific team behind the scenes, who Their mission was - and continues today - translate the immense work of the SPC to provide the best teaching programme into actual invitations and a finalised for dermatologists and venereologists. programme back in the EADV office. The SPC has succeeded in convincing Programming for all levels us dermatologists of the high value of EADV and the joy in providing top quality Prof Lajos As young dermatologists require a training in the rapidly changing world of Kemeny different level of knowledge during their dermatology. Patients with skin diseases training than experienced, practising are deeply dependent on these trained dermatologists or experts in the field, dermatologists who above all, love their the group developed a novel structured profession. programme for each of these three interest groups. Furthermore, to accentuate the I wish the new chair, Prof Dréno, and the European identity of the Academy, the entire SPC – including new members Dr SPC searched in each of the European Monika Arenbergerová, who has replaced Dr Catherine countries represented on the Board for Prof Kemeny, and co-opted member, Prof van Monfrans the best speakers from each nation. They Petr Arenberger – a continued fruitful contacted specialist groups and checked collaboration and a splendid future. l the scientific/teaching background and English knowledge of each potential speaker. With this information the SPC Martin Röcken MD PhD has successfully invited around 800 Past Chair, and co-opted member carefully selected speakers from Europe Scientific Programming Committee each year and has also gained immensely from the most valuable input from Asia, Prof Piergiacomo the Americas and Africa. Calzavara Pinton 2 SUMMER WINTER 20182015–2016 67 Editorial The bridge Prof Christos Zouboulis According to the Cambridge Dictionary While hierarchy is still required in clinical We shall stay on our next bridge, and the a “bridge” is a structure that is built over medicine in the interest of our patients, more the merrier, on 12-16 September in a river, road, or railway to allow people and teaching and research need vivid exchange. Paris! vehicles to cross from one side to the other. This can happen today more easily due to With kind summer regards and see you In a wider sense, a bridge allows us to move the wide development of electronic means, soon in Paris. l over an obstacle - it facilitates contact with but despite the overwhelming power Aeach other. of evidence-based medicine, personal Christos C Zouboulis MD PhD Editor Moreover, a bridge “makes the difference experience still represents the culmination or division between two things smaller or of our profession. A crown handed down to less severe”. future generations of physicians, who trust In this issue what they have learnt over time and do not However, building a bridge is a complex President’s Perspective ______________4 forget that personal and hands-on patient undertaking requiring knowledge and care may result in wonders. Skin cancer registries ________________ 6 expertise. Several variables come into play when deciding which construction method Bridges need pillars to stand safely on, and CME-CPD for Paris Congress ________ 8 pillars cannot be markedly uneven and to use and bridge type to build. Bringing EADV to must be equally strong. On the other hand, Every physician in the second half of his/her national meetings ____________________ 9 personal interaction takes place in venues life and career has experienced, to a greater of lively and even academic exchange, Patients’ association profile: or lesser extent, the strict vertical hierarchy EFPO ________________________________ 10 such as medical societies and their of the medical profession. Some were conferences. It is, indeed, the case with EADV Mohs fellowship report _______11 patient enough to advance on their personal EADV and its congresses that offer this stairway, others have abandoned the long JEADV impact factor ________________ 12 and difficult procedure and decided to same possibility to both older and younger History of the Musée proceed on their own. Many capable young dermatologists to exchange knowledge on des Moulages, Paris _________________ 14 colleagues have been ‘lost’ on the way, but an equal footing. the structure was pyramidal enough with a Both EADV pillars have to be equally Tattooists meets dermatologists ____ 15 wide base; several newcomers emerged to represented to secure the structure of our 10th EADV dermatological close the gaps. professional bridge in the years to come. meeting, Ticino _____________________ 16 Such a unique bridging opportunity must In the meantime, the medical profession Why choose to join EADV? _________ 18 has experienced what developed societies be taken into account and an obvious next in general have long done. Younger bridge is our upcoming EADV Congress. The EADV-ESDR summer physicians are only occasionally willing to best-loved American poet of his lifetime, research workshop __________________20 follow the “difficult” path and even practical Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882), EADV School update _______________22 medicine recognises the developing gaps in stood on his “bridge at midnight” on a AGM announcement _______________ 23 the coming generation of physicians, who lovely night in June and saw “her bright often dislike following traditional academic reflection in the waters” under him, “like a Calendar of events __________________24 habits. golden goblet falling…” 3 President’s Perspective Continuous evolution essential for a bright