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Prof. Dr. Wolf-Henning Boehncke
SPIN President | Switzerland
Prof. Dr. Wolf-Henning Boehncke
SPIN President | Switzerland
Wolf-Henning Boehncke earned his M.D. as a fellow of the German Scholarship Foundation in Kiel and Glasgow, and received his postdoctoral training at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda/USA. Following assignments at the University Hospitals in Kiel and Ulm he became Full Professor and Head of the Section of Allergy/Immunology at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main. Since 2012, he is the Chairman of the Dermatology Unit at Geneva University. Prof. Boehncke currently serves as the president of SPIN (Skin Inflammation and Psoriasis International Network). He is also an active member and past president of the Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis (GRAPPA) and an active member of the International Psoriasis Council (IPC). His research focuses on the pathogenesis of inflammation on which he published more than 350 peer-review articles, among them landmark papers in the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, Nature Medicine, and Nature, several of these were honoured by distinguished prizes.
Prof. Dr. Tiago Torres
SPIN President-Elect | Portugal
Prof. Dr. Tiago Torres
SPIN President-Elect | Portugal
Tiago Torres is Professor of Dermatology at the Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, University of Porto. He received his medical degree from the Faculdade de Medicina, University of Porto, completed a residency program in Dermatology and Venereology at Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto (CHUP) and finished his PhD thesis in 2014 studying the role of psoriasis- associated systemic inflammation in atherosclerosis.
Currently, he is the Head of the Immunodermatology Unit (psoriasis, atopic dermatitis and auto-immune diseases) and Clinical Trials Unit of the Department of Dermatology of CHUP. Through the years has been principal investigator for several psoriasis and atopic dermatitis clinical trials.
Tiago Torres has been involved in the development of national guidelines for the treatment of psoriasis, has received the “Juvenal Esteves” Prize from the Portuguese Society of Dermatology and Venerology with research projects in psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis in 2011, 2013, 2017 and 2018, as well as two grants for atopic dermatitis projects in 2018. Serves as Associate Editor of Acta Médica Portuguesa, Journal of the Portuguese Society of Dermatology and Venerology and Drugs in Context and belongs to the editorial board of Drugs and the Foundation René Touraine’s Book “Therapeutics In Dermatology”.
Currently, Tiago Torres is the President of the Portuguese Group of Psoriasis and an International Psoriasis Council member. Tiago Torres has published many articles on psoriasis and atopic dermatitis and has been the editor of the Portuguese book “Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis”. His main research topics in dermatology are immunodermatology, immunology and immunopharmacology of psoriasis and atopic dermatitis.
Prof. Dr. Phyllis Spuls
SPIN Past-President | Netherlands
Prof. Dr. Phyllis Spuls
SPIN Past-President | Netherlands
Professor of Evidence Based Dermatology, MD, Phd, and Consultant Dermatologist at The Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location Academic Medical Centre, of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
She qualified in medicine from the University of Amsterdam Medical School. She worked for 4 years as fellow dermatologist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and for 3 years at the Dutch Cochrane Centre.
Prof Spuls has a lot of experience in both clinical practice, education, and research in dermatology. She is a passionate doctor and researcher with a focus on the old and new treatments of psoriasis and eczema. She is interested in developing core outcome sets (see Chord Cousin Collaboration) and guidelines in the field of dermatology, in performing investigator initiated clinical trials and systematic reviews, and collect clinical data in registries (see TREAT Registry Taskforce) to improve the care for patients with dermatoses in many ways.
Prof. Dr. Amit Garg
SPIN Steering Committee member USA
Prof. Dr. Amit Garg
SPIN Steering Committee member USA
Dr. Garg is Professor and Founding Chairman for the Department of Dermatology at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra Northwell. He is also Professor in the Center for Health Innovation and Outcomes Research at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. Dr. Garg currently serves as the President for the Northwell Health Physician Partners, a medical group representing over 6000 doctors at Northwell Health in New York.
Dr. Garg’s subspecialty expertise is interdisciplinary based in caring for patients with autoimmune and inflammatory conditions including hidradenitis suppurativa and psoriasis. Dr. Garg's funded research interests include identification of comorbidities using ‘Big Data’, and development of a core outcome set for clinical trials for dermatologic diseases.
Dr. Garg is Chair of the Council on Education for the American Academy of Dermatology. He has held leadership roles within national professional organizations, including C3 (CHORD
COUSIN Collaboration), HiSTORIC (Hidradenitis Suppurativa Core Outcome Set International Collaboration), Hidradenitis Suppurativa Foundation, the Group for Research and Assessment of
Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis, the National Psoriasis Foundation, the Association of Professors of Dermatology, the Medical Dermatological Society, and the American Academy of
Dermatology. Dr. Garg recently served as Vice Chair for the Dermatology's Residency Review Committee of the Accreditation Counsel of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).
Dr. Garg serves on the editorial board for the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology and he is the Outcomes section editor for the journal Dermatology. He has published a number of articles in the peer-reviewed literature and has authored several book chapters. Dr. Garg was awarded the 2016 Thomas G. Pearson, EdD Memorial Education Award by the American Academy of Dermatology.
Prof. Dr. Antonios Kolios
SPIN Steering Committee member Switzerland
Prof. Dr. Antonios Kolios
SPIN Steering Committee member Switzerland
Antonios Kolios (born 1983) is physician scientist, trained in Dermatology and Venerology as well as Clinical Immunology and Allergology, currently running as senior attending physician the immuno-dermatology unit in the Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland, where he is responsible for all inflammatory skin diseases incl. psoriasis, hidradenitis suppurativa, lupus, vitiligo, pityriasis rubra pilaris and others.
From 2020 until 2021 he was at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) / Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA in the Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology with Prof. George Tsokos, an international renown expert in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. During that time, he received his habilitation as Privatdozent (PD, corresponding to Assistant Professor) at the University of Zurich (UZH) in Switzerland, where he is also running his own group and is giving student lectures and
courses.
His research is focused on restoration of immune balance in autoimmune skin diseases incl. psoriasis, vitiligo and cutaneous lupus as well as identification of pathogenetic investigation with possible translation into treatment approaches in inflammatory skin diseases. Currently one promising drug candidate is in a clinical translational program. Also, he is national principal investigator for the Swiss hidradenitis suppurativa registry. He received several grants, awards and authored over 65 publications on immune-mediated skin disorders in journals like New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Review Rheumatology, Science Immunology, Lancet Rheumatology, Journal of Investigative Dermatology, British Journal of Dermatology, JAMA Dermatology and others.
His enthusiasm in Immuno-Dermatology is driven by his curiosity of translating basic research in inflammatory skin diseases into targeted, patient-tailored treatment strategies.
Prof. Dr. Jörg Prinz
SPIN Steering Committee member Germany
Prof. Dr. Jörg Prinz
SPIN Steering Committee member Germany
Jörg Prinz holds a permanent Professorship for Dermatology and Venerology at the Clinic for Dermatology and Allergology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich.
He is responsible for the phototherapy unit and psoriasis centre and the serological analysis laboratory at the clinic. Having obtained his medical degree in 1983, Prof. Prinz worked as a post doctoral researcher at the Department of Immunology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich until 1990. Since 1990, he has been a physician at the university, where he established and continues to manage the Research Group for Immunopathology. Prof. Prinz went on to attain his specialist qualifications in dermatology and venerology in 1995, and allergology in 1996. His main research interest is the analysis of the T-cell mediated immunopathogenesis of psoriasis and the identification of psoriatic autoantigens. Prof. Prinz is also interested in developing experimental therapies for T-cell mediated autoimmune disorders, and has been actively involved in preparing evidence-based guidelines for psoriasis treatment.
