Mini-symposium: Dermoscopy and beyond: Part two

Professor Iris Zalaudek is chair of the Department of Dermatology and Center of Sexually Transmitted Diseases of the University Hospital Giuliana-Isontino of the University of Trieste, Italy. She is president-elect of the International Dermoscopy Society, secretary of the World Melanoma Society, treasurer of the Italian Society of Dermatology and Venerology and board member of the European Association of Dermato-Oncology and Melanoma World Society.

Professor Zalaudek's main research field is related to skin imaging and dermato-oncology. She has a broad national and international network of collaborations and is a member of several national and international guideline working groups on melanoma and cutaneous cancers. Her scientific work comprises more than 550 articles with a combined impact factor of more than 1100 and a h-index of 56 (lastest access 16.03 2021 - Scopus). Her research on melanocytic tumours has led to a new classification of nevi and opened new insights into nevogenesis and melanomagenesis. Moreover, her working group was the first to describe the dermoscopic patterns of different forms of epithelial skin cancers including actinic keratoses, Bowens’ disease and invasive squamous cell carcinoma.

Dr Jonathan Bowling is a consultant dermatologist working in Oxford, UK. He was the departmental lead and skin cancer lead for Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust and the past chair of the West Thames Valley specialist skin cancer multidisciplinary team.

Dr Bowling main interest is skin cancer diagnosis and treatment. He pioneered training in dermoscopy in the UK organising the first UK dermoscopy course in 2002. Since 2002, almost 4000 delegates from across the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Canada and Australia have attended his courses in skin cancer diagnosis. His main interest has been developing an education platform to improve the utilisation of dermoscopy leading to improvements in skin lesion diagnostic accuracy. He has published and lectures extensively on skin lesion diagnosis and is the author of the award-winning textbook ‘Diagnostic Dermoscopy: The Illustrated Guide’ published by Wiley-Blackwell. The second edition of this textbook is due to be published in Autumn 2021.

Dr Bowling has been commissioned to deliver both training in teledermoscopy and teledermoscopy services across the UK.

You can find him at the following: www.mydermatologist.co.uk, www.dermoscopy.co.uk and @dermoscopy on Twitter.

Dr David de Beker is a consultant dermatologist with an interest in nail disease. He collaborates with nail colleagues in Europe, the US, Australia, India, North Africa and South America.