Dr Brenda Kelly is a consultant obstetrician in Oxford with a longstanding interest in migrant women’s health.   She is founder and director of the Oxford Rose Clinic- a specialist service providing holistic care and support for women and girls with female genital mutilation (FGM).

Dr Tess McPherson MA MBBS MD FRCP is Consultant Dermatologist, Senior Clinical Lecturer & Clinical Lead for Paediatric and Adolescent Dermatology at Oxford University Hospitals. She is active in national and international paediatric dermatology including developing clinical guidelines and patient information for the British Association of Dermatology (BAD) monitoring effects of medications on children and young people (BADBIR registry) and is the President-Elect of the British Society of Paediatric Dermatology (BSPD).

Skin conditions are very common and have huge impact for young people but their needs are often overlooked. Through her clinical work and national roles with BAD and the BSPD team, Dr McPherson is committed to providing better services and support for this vulnerable population. In Oxford she has established an award-winning service for young people with skin conditions that integrates psychological support. This model is now being established in other centres. The BSPD website also now has a dedicated section with information for both health professionals working with adolescents and information for young people themselves.

Dr McPherson was lead clinician on an NIHR funded project to develop a web resource for young adults with skin disease on healthtalk.org, works with charities and patient groups to improve resources and has recently written a book; ‘Skin Conditions in Young People: A practical guide on how to be comfortable in your skin’.

We are delighted to be running a dedicated session on adolescent skin at the WCPD and hope you enjoy, contribute and take something from this to help you support the young people you work with.

Jodi Whitehouse is the founder and Chief Executive of Caring Matters Now, the UK charity supporting those affected by Congenital Melanocytic Naevus (CMN).  Caring Matters Now aims to support children and adults affected by CMN, raise global awareness of CMN and raise funds for CMN research.

Dr. Treat is Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Dermatology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania with his main clinical appointment at the Children‘s Hospital of Philadelphia. He is the education and fellowship director of Pediatric Dermatology. Dr. Treat is an author on Andrews Diseases of the skin and has given hundreds of invited lectures nationally and internationally. He directs the dermatology course for the Perelman school of medicine and has won 19 teaching awards including the 2016 Provost award for excellence in teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, the 2013 Master Clinician Award at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and was elected to the Academy of Master Clinicians at the University of Pennsylvania in 2020.

Dr. Mark Koh is a dermatologist, paediatric dermatologist and dermatopathologist. He is head and senior consultant of Dermatology Service, KK Women’s & Children’s Hospital, as well as visiting consultant at Singapore General Hospital, Sengkang General Hospital & National Cancer Centre. His sub-specialty interests in paediatric dermatology include atopic dermatitis, genodermatoses, vascular anomalies and histiocytic disorders. His other sub-specialty interests include cutaneous lymphoma and skin cancer syndromes. Dr. Koh is an Associate Professor at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Nanyang Technological University Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. He is also a senior clinical lecturer at the National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin Medical School. Dr. Koh is Secretary General of the Asian Society of Pediatric Dermatology (ASPD) and a Board Member of the International Society of Pediatric Dermatology (ISPD).

Adam read Medicine and Neuroscience at Cambridge University before completing his clinical training at University College, London. After specialist training in Paediatric Allergy in 2006, he spent 9 years as clinical lead for Allergy (Adult & Paediatric) at Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals, London – one of Europe’s largest specialist Allergy services, recognised as an International Centre of Excellence by both the World Allergy Organisation and GALEN (European Asthma & Allergy Network). After 3 years as Clinical Director for Specialist Ambulatory Medicine, he took up the post of Deputy Medical Director (Commercial) for Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in 2018. He is also a Professor of  Paediatric Allergy at King’s College London and the founding Director of the KCL Allergy Academy, a postgraduate educational programme, which was a finalist at the BMJ Awards in 2018.

Adam chaired the UK Department of Health National Care Pathway for Food Allergy in Childhood and was a member of the National Institute of Healthcare and Clinical Excellence (NICE) clinical guideline development group for the assessment and diagnosis of food allergy in children. He previously chaired the Paediatric Committee of the British Society of Allergy & Clinical Immunology and was elected as President, the first Paediatrician to hold this position, from October 2018.

Adam was awarded ‘Paediatric Allergist of the Year’ from Allergy UK in 2007. His doctoral thesis on peanut allergy received the Raymond Horton Smith prize from Cambridge University in 2012 and he was included in The Times ‘Britain’s 100 Best Children’s Doctor’s’ (2012).  Adam received the William Frankland Award for Outstanding contribution to Allergy from the British Society of Allergy & Clinical Immunology in 2015 and a National Clinical Excellence award from the UK Department of Health in 2016 and 2020.

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Declarations of interest can be found at http://www.whopaysthisdoctor.org/doctor/511 .

Dr. Venter (PhD RD) is an Allergy Specialist Dietititan and Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Section of Allergy/Immunology at the Children’s Hospital Colorado and University of Colorado Denver, where she is conducting research in allergy prevention and working with children with food allergies. She is a member of American, European, and British Allergy Societies. She moved from the UK in 2015 where she performed research into food allergy prevalence funded by the Food Standards Agency, UK. She is a member of European and American food allergy guidelines on Allergy Prevention. She was also a member of the NICE (UK) and National Institutes for Allergy and Infectious Diseases Food Allergy guidelines.  She is active on twitter with over 4000 followers and her twitter handle is @VenterCarina

Dr Natalia Cartledge is a paediatrician working in paediatric dermatology at Great Ormond Street Hospital providing holistic patient centred care to children and young people with skin problems. She is also the lead for paediatric dermatology and allergy at Royal Surrey Foundation Trust where she established the dermatology service for children and young people. Her areas of expertise include atopic diseases, eczema and birth marks. She is an innovative dynamic consultant developing efficient front line services providing best care for children and young people. She has a passion for medical education and she regularly teaches medical students, junior doctors, nurses and primary care physicians

Dr Leong Kin Fon is a consultant paediatric dermatologist from General Hospital Kuala Lumpur. Dr Leong has been active in medical research, and has presented in numerous local and international conferences. Dr Leong has also authored and co-authored more than 50 scientific publications and books; among which include The Faces of Atopic Eczema among Malaysian Children and the Atlas of Paediatric Diseases series.

Dr Leong is the president of the Malaysia Eczema Society and Malaysian Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa Research Association (DEBRA Malaysia) since 2020 and  2013 respectively

He actively volunteers with various national & international humanitarian organizations such as MERCY, TIMA and Medecen San Frontier.

He was given ILDS humanatarian award in 2017 .

Dr Leong has special interest in eczema, acne, psoriasis, birthmarks, portwine stain, nevus of Ota hemangioma, vascular lesions and common skin problems in children, adolescent and young adults

Sébastien Barbarot, MD, PhD, is an assistant professor of dermatology in the University Hospital of Nantes, France. He is the head of the Pediatric Dermatology Clinical Trial Unit and the head of the Eczema School in Nantes University Hospital since 2009. Sebastien was a postdoctoral fellow in 2013-2014 in the Centre of Evidence Based Dermatology, University of Nottingham UK.   His mentor, Pr Jean-Francois Stalder is one of the founding fathers of the SCORAD score. His research is focused on the causes, prevention and treatment of atopic dermatitis in children and adults. He has been funded for an academic randomised clinical trial on the role of education in the management of children with atopic dermatitis and a randomised clinical trial on the role of prebiotics in pregnant women on the prevention of atopic dermatitis.   Sebastien is Vice-chair of the European task Force in Atopic Dermatitis, President of the French society of Pediatric dermatology and Co-Chair of the French Academic Group on Atopic Dermatitis (Groupe de Recherche sur l’Eczema Atopique – GREAT ). Sebastien published 230 peer-reviewed papers.

Celia Moss is a Consultant Dermatologist at Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Honorary Professor of Paediatric Dermatology at the University of Birmingham. She trained in Medicine at Oxford University and University College Hospital, London, and in Dermatology in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Previous national appointments include Chair of the British Society for Paediatric Dermatology, Chair of the UK NHS Clinical Reference Group for Specialised Dermatology, Convenor for Dermatology at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and Council Member of the Royal Society of Medicine Dermatology Section. She is a member of the advisory boards of several dermatology journals and patient support groups. She lectures, advises and publishes widely on genetic and paediatric dermatology, and has contributed chapters to the major UK and US textbooks. She was awarded the Sir Archibald Gray Medal and an OBE in 2016. Now semi-retired, she and her husband travel whenever possible, supporting colleagues overseas, particularly in India.

Sara Brown is Professor of Dermatology in NHS Lothian and a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Sara trained in dermatology in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and fell in love with paediatric dermatology. Sara’s MD research (supervised by Nick Reynolds, Heather Cordell and Caroline Relton) was the first population-based study of filaggrin null mutations, showing a small but significant effect in the mild eczema that is prevalent in the paediatric population. Sara moved to Dublin for a post-CCT fellowship in paediatric dermatology, training with Alan Irvine and Rosemarie Watson, before relocating to Dundee, for further training in epithelial genetics, in Irwin McLean’s lab. Sara’s current work seeks to understand atopic eczema from different perspectives, with the ultimate aim of improving treatment for this very challenging disease. The Brown Lab combines molecular genetics with skin organoid modelling, genome-wide analyses and genetic epidemiology, public engagement and therapy development.

John McGrath is the academic head of St John’s Institute of Dermatology in London where he also runs the Genetic Skin Disease Group.  He holds the Mary Dunhill Chair in Cutaneous Medicine at King’s College London and is Honorary Consultant Dermatologist to the Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. He has lead roles in developing and delivering experimental medicine and in running several national rare skin disease projects in the U.K. His clinical and research work focuses on the diagnosis of inherited skin diseases and the development of novel treatments for rare skin diseases.

Dr Anna Martinez is a senior Paediatric Dermatologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital and Honorary Senior Lecturer at The Institute of Child Health, University College London.  Anna trained at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and was appointed as a Consultant in Paediatric Dermatology at Great Ormond Street Hospital in January 2003. Since her appointment Anna has led the Highly Specialised Nationally Commissioned Service for Paediatric Epidermolysis Bullosa.  Anna is a major contributor to research in the field of paediatric dermatology, she is Chief Investigator and Principal Investigator on a rolling programme of clinical trials into novel therapies for rare diseases.

Prof Jemima Mellerio trained in dermatology in South London at St John’s Institute of Dermatology and King’s College Hospital. Undertaking her MD at St John’s Institute on Genotype-Phenotype Correlations in Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) sparked an interest in genetic skin fragility disorders that has endured.  She has been a consultant dermatologist since 2003 and is based at St John’s Institute of Dermatology, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, London where she is Chief of Dermatology and leads the Adult Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) Service which provides clinical care for around 500 individuals with EB. She also worked as the dermatologist to the Paediatric EB Service at Great Ormond Street Hospital for almost 15 years until recently. Jemima’s clinical interests are EB, Mendelian genodermatoses, and general paediatric dermatology.  She has established a large tertiary referral service at St John’s for both adults and children with genetic skin disease, overseeing the care of a large cohort of patients with ichthyosis, palmoplantar keratodermas, other disorders of keratinisation and ectodermal dysplasias. She has active clinical and laboratory research interests in many different aspects of genetic skin disease including gene discovery and phenotyping, a longitudinal prospective study in recessive dystrophic EB, and translational research of new therapies for genodermatoses including cell and gene therapy. She has published widely and lectured nationally and internationally on these areas.

Fanny Morice-Picard started her medical studies in Rouen (France). She moved to Bordeaux as a resident where she was trained in medical genetics and dermatology. She did a Master in Molecular Genetics in Paris (Hôpital Necker-INSERM U393) in 2003-2004. She graduated in Medical Genetics and obtained her PhD in Biological Sciences “Molecular Genetics” (University of Bordeaux, 2013). She spent 4 years as Senior Registrar in Medical genetics unit and shared her time between clinical activity, molecular diagnostic and research. FMP started working in Dermatology department as hospital practitioner and is involved in the activity of the Reference Centre for Rare Skin Disorders, CHU de Bordeaux founded by Pr Alain Taïeb in 2005.

FMPs main professional activities include management and care of patients with rare inherited skin disorders and research on physiopathology and genetics causes of skin diseases. She is involved in different projects on DNA repair disorders and pigmentary disorders. She collaborates with the moleculargenetic diagnostic laboratories and took part in the design and analysis of sequencing panels dedicated to genodermatoses including albinism, genetic disorders of pigmentation, hypotrichoses, DNA repairs disorders.

I am a Consultant Dermatologist and Dermatopathologist at Dorset County Hospital, Dorchester, one of a select few UK Dermatologists seeing patients including paediatric dermatology, and also reporting skin histopathology, and providing second opinions.

I completed Specialist Training in Dermatology in the West Midlands in 2007, developing Dermatopathology as sub-specialist interest, passing Royal College of Pathologists Diploma in Dermatopathology. Previous posts include Consultant Paediatric Dermatologist at Birmingham Children’s Hospital 2007-13, Consultant Dermatologist at University Hospital Birmingham 2007-9 and Consultant Dermatopathologist at University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire 2009-13.

I am a member of Royal College of Pathologists Specialist Advisory Committee on Dermatopathology, Steering Group for National Specialist Dermatopathology EQA Scheme, past-member of Steering Group for UK Dermatology Clinical Trials network and past-Secretary of British Society for Dermatopathology.

Professor Beatrix Volc-Platzer, MD, is a board-certified dermatologist and venerologist, and associate professor of Dermatology and Venerology with main topics immunodermatology, dermatohistopathology and pediatric dermatology. Beatrix Volc-Platzer graduated in 1978, at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. From 1979 to 1980 she was a resident at the Institute of Pathology, University of Vienna. From 1980 to 1987 Training in Dermatology and Venerology at the Departments of Dermatology at the Universities of Innsbruck and Vienna, Austria (Head: Professor Klaus Wolff, MD) and member of the immunodermatology team of Professor Georg Stingl, MD. “Habilitation“ 1989, Associate Professor 1995. 1992 – 1994 Researcher at the former Sandoz Reseach Institute in Vienna for the project „Gene therapy for AIDS“. 2001 appointed Head of the Department of Dermatology at the Donauspital SMZ Ost, Vienna, Austria. Retired in 2019.

1994 to 1999 Board Member of the European Society of Dermatological Reseach (ESDR), 2008 to 2010 President of the Austrian Society of Dermatology and Venerology (ÖGDV). Head of the Working Party for Paediatric Dermatology of the ÖGDV and founder of the Karl Landsteiner Institute for Paediatric Dermatology in 2012. Beatrix Volc-Platzer is Vice-President of the Karl Landsteiner Society and has been appointed as first woman president of the “College of Physicians in Vienna” (Gesellschaft der Ärzte in Wien), on October 28^th, 2020.

The research and clinical topics include immunopathology of Graft-versus-host Disease, diagnostic parameters and treatments of autoimmune diseases, i.e. connective tissue diseases and autoimmune bullous diseases, and paediatric dermatology. Publications include „Expression of class II alloantigens by keratinocytes” (J Exp Med 1984) and „On the bone marrow origin of human Langerhans cells“ (N Engl J Med 1984). Recent publications include “European Guidelines of IVIG” (J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol and J Dtsch Dermatol Ges 2017), “EDF/EADV Guidelines on the treatment of cutaneous lupus/CLE (J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol 2017), “Dermatomyositis” (Hautarzt 2015) and on rare diseases in children, e.g. (Br J Dermatol 2017, 2019, 2020). Contribution to Harper’s Paediatric Dermatology, 4^th Ed., with the chapter on “Skin manifestations of Metabolic Syndrome”. Beatrix Volc-Platzer is “peer reviewer” for several journals, e.g. J Invest Dermatol, Br J Dermatol, Clin Exp Dermatol, Acta Dermatovenereol, J Dtsch Dermatol Ges, and was appointed  “associate editor” for the Br J Dermatol in 2016.

1984 Hebra Award of the Austrian Society of Dermatology and Venerology (ÖGDV) for research on “Class II alloantigen expression on keratinocytes” and 1989 AESCA Award of the ÖGDV for “Sequential immunohistological analysis of the skin after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation”.

Founder of the annual interdisciplinary symposium of paediatric dermatology („Kinder-Haut-Tag“) in 2010, under the auspices of the ÖGDV, the Karl Landsteiner Society and the Austrian Society for Pediatrics.

Lecturer for the Medical University of Vienna on “Autoimmune Diseases of the Skin” and “Paediatric Dermatology”.

Beatrix Volc-Platzer and her husband live in Vienna. She has two children and two grand-children.

Dr. Arun C Inamadar MD, FRCP (Edinburgh) is in the forefront of developing ‘Pediatric Dermatology’ as a subspecialty in India.

He is presently Professor and Head, Dept. of Dermatology, Venereology & Leprosy, Sri B. M. Patil Medical College, Hospital & Research Center, BLDE Deemed University, Vijaypur -586103, Karnataka, India

He has teaching experience of almost 30 years with more than 200 publications. He has edited 10 books and contributed 60 chapters.

The ‘Text book of pediatric dermatology’ (two editions, Mc Graw Hill)/ Jaypee Publishers), is a first of its kind in Indian Pediatric dermatology literature. He has contributed a chapter in Harper’s Textbook of Pediatric Dermatology’ 4th edition.

He is Executive editor, Indian Journal of Pediatric Dermatology (IJPD). He is chief editor of ‘Clinical Dermatology Review’. He is member of Indian Society of Pediatric dermatology (ISPD) and Society for Pediatric Dermatology (SPD)

He is a regular resource for Pediatric Dermatology across India in various sate. Regional and national meets of the speciality. His areas of interest and research are emerging and re-emerging infections, clinical / medical dermatology, genodermatosis and critical care in dermatology.

Dr. Messay Tesfaye Demissie is a dermatovenereologist and an assistant professor of  Dermatovenereology in Addis Ababa University college of health sciences which is a is a large, highly residential national university in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She is actively engaged in teaching  Dermatovenereology for undergraduate medical students and post graduate doctors. She is particularly interested in peadiatric dermatology and she is the case team leader of peadiatric dermatology clinic in ALERT. She also works as a medical expert volunteer in the newly established artificial intelligence center.

Dr Samira Batul Syed is an Associate Specialist in Paediatric Dermatology at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children for the last 26 years and a Locum Consultant Paediatric Dermatologist at the Royal Free Hospital in London for the last 6 years.

Her special interest is in the field of Vascular Anomalies. She trained at University College Hospital Medical School  in London and has gained 10 years of experience in paediatrics, neonatal medicine and community child health within the UK and abroad prior to joining GOSH. She was the pioneer with the Late Professor John Harper in  starting the  Laser Service for children at GOSH.  She is an experienced  laser specialist using lasers for the treatment of Birthmarks and Vascular Anomalies. She has trained many doctors in the applications of laser therapy.  She is an executive member of various Associations including the British Medical Laser Association.
She is part of the Multi-Disciplinary Team caring for difficult and challenging patients with rare and complex vascular anomalies at GOSH.
Her research interest is in the development of new therapies for vascular anomalies, including novel drugs and implementing new concepts in laser therapies.

Dr Kader is Nuclear Medicine trained Consultant with a special interest in Nuclear Cardiology. She also holds a fellowship in Paediatric Nuclear Medicine from Great Ormond Street Hospital. Her passion for laser technology encouraged her to pursue and introduce lasers for cosmetic purposes in the UK.  She was involved in introducing the Laser Hair removal in Britain and specialised in treating Asian and Afro-Caribbean skin types. She was trained by the Mayo Clinic Group in New York in advanced Laser technologies. Dr Kader has performed more than 200,000 treatments in the UK and internationally. She has presented in leading World Laser Congress Meetings. She is among the first group of doctors to be trained in Botox and fillers in the UK. She has a Fellowship in aesthetic medicine and is also a certified laser protection advisor (ALSP). Dr Kader is the chair person for the UK Council on Surgical Plumes (UKCSP). She has over 25 years’ experience in appetite suppressant related weight loss management and has a passion for Functional medicine and Nutrigenomics’

Alice is an Assistant Psychologist in the Dermatology department at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital (GOSH). Within this role she supports parents, young people and families with managing the challenges associated with having a dermatological condition including considering strategies for coping with visible difference, managing difficult social situations and anxiety management. Prior to this role Alice worked with children and young people for 10 years in various roles, amongst which she spent two years as an Assistant Psychologist in a Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) where she supported young people and their families with moderate to severe mental health problems. Alice has a 1st Class BSc Psychology degree from the University of Surrey and a PGCert in Children and Young People’s IAPT- Enhanced Evidence Based Practice. She has also undergone several trainings in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and she has recently been accepted onto the highly competitive Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Salomons, the South Thames Clinical Psychology doctoral programme.

Professor Sherief Janmohamed (1981, the Netherlands) obtained his MD degree (2006) and PhD degree (2014) at the Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. His thesis entitled: ‘Infantile Hemangioma: Pathogenesis, Evaluation, and Therapy’, was supervised by Prof. Dr. Arnold Oranje and Prof. Dr. Maurice van Steensel. For his work, he has been awarded the ‘Ruggero Caputto’s Young Pediatric Dermatologist award’ (2015). From 2014-2018 he was a Resident in Dermatology, Venereology, and Allergy under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Jan Gutermuth at the University Hospital Brussels (UZ Brussel), Belgium; and from 2018-2020 he was a post-doctoral fellow at Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago IL, USA (Prof. Dr. Jonathan Silverberg).

Currently, Sherief Janmohamed is leading the Multidisciplinary Unit Pediatric Dermatology at the University Hospital Brussels and is appointed as professor at the ‘Vrije Universiteit Brussel’. As an Epidemiologist, he heads the Epi-Derm Research group – his research interests include atopic dermatitis and infantile hemangioma. Prof. Dr. Sherief Janmohamed is board-member of the ESPD and associate editor of ‘Pediatric Dermatology’.

Carol Hlela is an Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa.  She heads the Paediatric Dermatology Unit, at the Red Cross Children’s Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa.  Carol Hlela is an  NRF rated and an African Academy of Science (AAS) (a subsidiary of the Bill amd Melinda Gate’s Foundation) funded investigator in both her laboratory- based and clinical research. She is widely published and sits in various  national and international advisory boards within her field of research. She holds a DPhil in Clinical Medicine from Oxford University, England, UK as well as a Masters in Global Health Science, also from the same university, and a Paediatric Dermatology Fellowship, from Robert and Ann Lurie Children’s Hospital, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, US. Carol Hlela is one of only two paediatric dermatologists in the South Africa, championing as a leading specialist in baby and child skincare. Her mission is to reduce skin conditions in babies and children, and become the voice in paediatric dermatology in Africa.

Lionel Larue is an INSERM research director of exceptional rank at the Institut Curie, France, in an INSERM-CNRS department acting as deputy director. For the past 30 years, his laboratory has been interested in molecular genetics involving the melanocyte lineage. In order to better understand the normal and pathological development of melanocytes the laboratory studies, in an integrative manner, the molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in melanocyte lineage establishment, homeostasis and transformation.

Dr Natalia Cartledge is a paediatrician working in paediatric dermatology at Great Ormond Street Hospital providing holistic patient centred care to children and young people with skin problems. She is also the lead for paediatric dermatology and allergy at Royal Surrey Foundation Trust where she established the dermatology service for children and young people. Her areas of expertise include atopic diseases, eczema and birth marks. She is an innovative dynamic consultant developing efficient front line services providing best care for children and young people. She has a passion for medical education and she regularly teaches medical students, junior doctors, nurses and primary care physicians

Dr Paula Beattie is a Consultant Dermatologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow. She trained in Dermatology in Belfast and Dundee before Fellowships in Paediatric Dermatology at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto and Great Ormond Street Hospital, London.  Paula has specialist interests in Eczema and vascular anomalies. She is actively involved in eczema teaching, guideline development and research including pharmaceutical trials of therapies for eczema in children and adults.

CAROLA DURÁN-McKINSTER, MD

Pediatric Dermatologist

Nationality: Mexican and American

Date of birth: 31 January 1953 in Mexico

Residence in Pediatrics and Pediatric Dermatology

National Institute of Pediatrics, Mexico city 1979-1982, 1982-1984

Mexican Board in Pediatric Dermatology.

1997 No. DP 12. Recertification 2017-2020

POSITION

HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PEDIATRIC DERMATOLOGY, 2002 to date

National Institute of Pediatrics of Mexico

PROFESSOR OF PEDIATRIC DERMATOLOGY

Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1989- 2020

MEMBER OF THE MEXICAN BOARD OF PEDIATRIC DERMATOLOGY

Since 2003 to date

RESEARCHER OF THE COMISSION FOR THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH 

National Board of Science and Technology

2001-2020

PUBLICATIONS: 123

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS: 40

BOOKS EDITOR: 6

THESIS: 14

CONFERENCES: NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL: 506

Luc Thomas, MD, PhD, was board certified in dermatology in 1989 at Lyon 1 University. He was trained as a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School in 1990 and 1991, and obtained his PhD degree at Lyon 1 University in 1993. He became full professor of dermatology in 1996, first class professor in dermatology in 2009, outstanding class professor in dermatology in 2015, and chairman of the department of dermatology of Lyon 1 University – Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud in 2003. He obtained his board certification in clinical oncology in 2013

His main research fields include skin oncology, early diagnosis of melanoma, dermoscopy, skin surgery and nail diseases. He has published more than 500 peer-reviewed scientific articles in international journals, is the co-editor of four books published in several languages and co-author of more than 25 books. He has lectured at many international meetings, is a member of the board of the International Dermoscopy Society, a past member of the board and treasurer of the French Society of Dermatology from 2000 to 2003, and treasurer of the World Congress of Dermatology in Paris in 2002.

Margarita Larralde MD, PhD, is Full Professor of Dermatology at the University of Buenos Aires. She is the Head of the Division of Dermatology at the Department of Medicine in the German Hospital of Buenos Aires and the Chief of the Section Pediatric Dermatology at the Ramos Mejia Hospital of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires. She is also the Director of the Fellowships of Dermatology and Pediatric Dermatology in the University of Buenos Aires. She authored more than 200 manuscripts published in peer reviewed Dermatology Journals, was the editor of several books on Pediatric Dermatology and a lot of chapters of different Dermatology Books.

DONNA MARIE LEELIN-SARROSA, MD, FPDS

Specialty:  Fellow in Dermatology (FPDS)

Subspecialty:  Pediatric Dermatology

Education

• S Biology, University of Santo Tomas,(UST) Philippines 1982-1986)
• Doctor of Medicine, UST(1986-1990)

Residency Training

Makati Medical Center (MMC), Department of Dermatology ( 1992-1994)

Post Graduate Training

• Jackson Memorial Hospital – University of Miami School of Medicine,

Miami Florida, USA (April 3,1995- June 30, 1995)

• National Skin Center, Singapore, Dermatology Fellowship ( Sept1,1995- November 30,1995)
• Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Fellow in Pediatric Dermatology July 1,1996- June 30, 1997)

Board Examinations

• Diplomate in Dermatology , Philippine Dermatological Society (PDS)1996

AFFILIATIONS

• Philippine Dermatological Society – Fellow Member
• Society of Pediatric Dermatology, USA – Fellow Member
• American Academy of Dermatology, USA – Fellow Member
• Makati Medical Society- Councilor Officer 2021-2022
• Asian Society of Pediatric Dermatology –Board Director and Executive Committee (2021-2022)

Past Positions

• Assistant Chair, Continuing Medical Education Committee, PDS 2000-2001
• Scientific Committee, Head, PDS Annual Convention 2006-2007
• Member, Board of Examiners, PDS 2008-2009
• Co Chair, Scientific Committee, PDS Annual Convention 2008-2009
• Chair, Board of Examiners, PDS 2010-2011
• Chair, Regional Congress in Pediatric Dermatology in association with PDS, 2008
• Board of Directors, PDS 2004-2013 and Secretary PDS 2008-2009
• Head, Academics Committee and Subspecialties PDS 2010-2011
• Head, Outreach Committee and HIS program PDS 2012-2013
• Past Chair, Pediatric Dermatology Subspecialty Core Group, Philippine Dermatology Society (PDS) 2013 –2018
• Training Officer, Department of Dermatology, Makati Medical Center (MMC) 2014 – 2021

Present Position

• Vice Chairman and Executive Committee Member, Department of Dermatology, Makati Medical Center (MMC)
• Head, Pediatric Dermatology Section, Department of Dermatology, MMC
• Board Director and Executive Committee, Asian Society of Pediatric Dermatology
• Active Staff, St. Luke’s Global City, Department of Dermatology
• Active Staff, Makati Medical Center, Department of Dermatology
• Board Member, Derma 360, Rockwell Makati , Philippines

Ilona Frieden, MD is Professor of Dermatology and Pediatrics at the University of California San Francisco where she helped to found the UCSF Birthmarks and Vascular anomalies clinic. She is a clinical and research expert in pediatric skin diseases, particularly infantile hemangiomas and other vascular anomalies.  She has served in numerous leadership roles in Dermatology and Pediatric Dermatology. She is past editor of the journal Pediatric Dermatology and a co-editor of the textbook Neonatal and Infant Dermatology now in its 3^rd edition.  She is an author on more than 300 original articles and numerous  book chapters.