Dr. Barbara Horvath is Professor and since 2019 Chairman of the Department of Dermatology and the Expertise Center for Blistering Diseases, an ERN-labeled national expertise center at the University Medical Center Groningen at the Netherlands. She was trained at the Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary. She did her PhD studies at the Department of Genetics, Cell- and Immunobiology at the Semmelweis University in Budapest. After her doctoral thesis she followed residency in dermatology at the Department of Dermatology and skin-oncology at the Semmelweis University. Since 2008 she is a staff member at the department of dermatology at the University Medical Center of Groningen (UMCG). Between 2012-2021 she was the head of national residency
training program in dermatology in the Netherlands. Her main expertise and research interest is hidradenitis suppurativa, autoimmune blistering diseases.
Barbara Horvath is a member of the EADV taskforce on Acne, Hidradenitis suppurativa and Rosacea and on Autoimmune Blistering Diseases. She is board member of the European Reference Network on rare diseases. Barbara Horvath is associate editor of the British Journal of Dermatology, Editor of the textbook Autoimmune Bullous disease, author of several book chapters and peer reviewed articles.