Catherine DROITCOURT
December 2020
After my PhD, I have had the opportunity to work at Gentofte University Hospital (in Denmark) in the Jacob Thyssen’s team for almost one year.
I have special interest in Atopic Dermatitis and I belong to a research team that conducts epidemiological studies by using the French National Health Insurance database which covers 98% of the 66-million French population.
During my stay in Denmark, I have conducted two epidemiological studies on risk of systemic infections among adults and children with atopic dermatitis by using the Danish registries. This project gave me the opportunity, among other things, to work on different extensions of the Cox regression model using for recurrent events.
I was in Denmark at the beginning of corona crisis with my three children. Even if corona has made things more difficult, I was able to work at home with access to the Danish registries and thus advance my work. However, it was a bit difficult not to see my Danish colleagues every day as before.
I thank you Jacob Thyssen and his team for this great professional experience.
February 2020
I sincerely thank you the ad hoc jury of the International Society of Atopic Dermatitis for this generous grant.
After my residency in Dermatology, I have the privilege and the great honor to work with Professor Alain Taïeb as senior resident in Bordeaux, France. My high interest for atopic dermatitis grew at that time.
I’m now assistant professor in the Dermatology Department of the University Hospital of Rennes, France. I am dedicated to pediatric dermatology and inflammatory dermatoses. I have recently defended my PhD Thesis in Epidemiology, presenting a body of works using large-scale national health-insurance data to investigate suicidal and psychiatric risk under isotretinoin for severe acne. In addition, I’m the national coordinating investigator of a French multicenter academic randomized controlled trial on phototherapy and vitamin D in atopic dermatitis.
Atopic dermatitis has my strong interest in particular studies based on nationwide databases or registers. I have started a very exciting fellowship in Jacob Thyssen’s team, in Copenhagen, Denmark, for developing an epidemiologic project on atopic dermatitis and risk of systemic infections that is in line with both my clinical domain and epidemiological background. This is a unique opportunity to create closer links between European teams doing epidemiologic research in Dermatology and to benefit from the experience of conducting epidemiological studies from the Danish registries.
I thank again the members of ISAD for their support.