Category: Research

Worldwide Solidarity in the Care of AD Patients (OCAD 2023 meeting)

The patient-centred pre-meeting “Organization of Care in Atopic Dermatitis” is covering in accordance with the motto of the 13th Georg RAJKA symposium Worldwide Solidarity in the Care of AD Patients. The program has been prepared jointly by Roberto TAKAOKA – who pioneered such initiatives at previous meetings, including virtual symposia held during the COVID pandemic (cf. OCAD meetings […]

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Amsterdam UMC

eDelphi: phototherapy for AD

ISAD has received a message from colleagues of the Netherlands asking for help on phototherapy of AD, a “vanishing” field with the development of systemics, to be covered in Gdansk (session 5: Topical treatment and phototherapy: endangered regimens?). They would like to invite experts (dermatologists) on phototherapy for AD to participate in an eDelphi consensus […]

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April 2023 digest

WHO skin NTDs meeting Dear Colleagues, Dear Friends, Our Society was present at the recent WHO skin NTDs meeting in Geneva.This meeting was a milestone for the recognition of dermatology at the level of the WHO not only for neglected tropical diseases with dermatological expression but also for all common skin diseases which impair human […]

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Research Fellowships 2023

2023 ISAD Society Research Fellowships

Our call is now officially open. This initiative was launched in 2019 by a generous grant of Pfizer with the aim of supporting the training of young dermatologists at a host institution of good standing for AD research. Up to now 8 laureates have completed their stay abroad and their experience has been reported on […]

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March 2023 digest

Dear Colleagues, Dear Friends, The 2023 ISAD research fellowships call is now officially open. This initiative was launched in 2019 by a generous grant of Pfizer with the aim of supporting the training of young dermatologists at a host institution of good standing for AD research. Up to now 8 laureates have completed their stay […]

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September 2022 digest

Dear Colleagues, Dear Friends, In a month from now, we will hopefully convene physically for the first time since Utrecht 2018 with limited constraints due to the pandemic in Montréal. Please note if you come to Canada you need to access the ArriveCan platform which checks if you qualify as a fully vaccinated traveler. It […]

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Aaron DRUCKER

Rajka medal 2022: Aaron DRUCKER

Aaron Drucker MD, ScM, FRCPC is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto and Dermatologist and Scientist at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto, Canada. He completed medical school at Queen’s University, dermatology residency at the University of Toronto and a Master’s and Research Fellowship in Clinical and Translational Research at Brown University […]

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June 2022 digest

Dear Colleagues, Dear Friends, Excellent news! More than 160 abstracts were received on May 30th covering the entire field of AD, with a focus on paediatric AD as highlighted by the motto of the Montreal meeting “back to our future… AD in childhood”. I remind you that there is a late-breaking abstracts session (link) concerning […]

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May 2022 digest

Dear Colleagues, Dear Friends, On June 6th members of the ISAD executive committee will meet in Antananarivo (Madagascar) WHO-AFRO and WHO-INT representatives respectively from Brazzaville (RDC) and Geneva (Switzerland) to discuss AD in the context of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affecting the skin which are the key priority of WHO. As shown at our last […]

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