EADV Task Forces

A Task Force is a small group that brings together a specific set of skills and ideas to accomplish distinct projects of scientific, clinical or educational relevance in the speciality of dermato-venereology.

All Task Forces work under the umbrella of the EADV and report to the Task Force Facilitator who guides and oversees the Task Forces, mediates with the chairs, helps to develop your strategy in line with the EADV mission, reviews outcomes, and prepares the annual report on performed activities.

EADV Task Forces Bylaws

Please click here to read the official Task Force Bylaws and refer to them for guidance to Task Force practices and principles.

Bylaws were first approved by the Board in 2015, and have been updated in 2020.

Aims and duties of the EADV Task Forces

The Board implemented Task Forces in 2005 to perform the following main duties

make speaker suggestions to the Scientific Programming Committee for Congresses and Symposia
develop educational materials
allow the EADV to influence and keep updated information on matters related to special fields within dermato-venereology

Moreover, they may

be involved in preparation of guidelines or JEADV review articles
serve as contact to other committees when necessary
build a platform for common research projects (e.g. EU projects, multicenter trials etc.);
organise small meetings (with maximum 20 participants) during the annual Congress

Furthermore, the following rules for the Task Force activities were given:“The work of the EADV Task Forces is voluntary, their size is flexible. The Task Forces are principally open to all members interested. There is no inherent financial support connected with the work of Task Forces. However, they can ask for support regarding specific projects.”Task Force leaders initial term of office will last four years (extended by 4 years by consensus decision or by the Board). Task Forces can be dismissed when there is no apparent activity.*There is only one exception: the “European Task Force Atopic dermatitis” (ETFAD) was an already exisiting Subspecialty Society with own rules which put itself under the patronage of EADV as “Eczema Task Force”; the EADV TF coordinators were the same as the chairpersons of the ETFAD, namely Ulf Darsow and Alain Taïeb. Therefore ETFAD had a right to propose their own Subspecialty meeting on Wednesday at our congresses. This right was not automatically granted to the other Task Forces.

Positions statements from EADV's Task Forces

Alert on a false health claim: There are no authorised cerebral effects of cosmetics

10/02/2025

Position statement on latest study regarding benzene in Acne products

03/05/2024

Acne/Rosacea/Hidradenitis Suppurativa

Christos C. Zouboulis	Germany	Chair
Gregor Jemec	Denmark	Co-chair
Martin Steinhoff	Germany	Co-chair

Artificial Intelligence in Dermatology

Joseph Malvehy	Spain	Chair
Giovanni Pellacani	Italy	Co-chair
Harald Kittler	Austria	Co-chair

Autoimmune Blistering Diseases

Enno Schmidt	Germany	Chair
Katerina Patsatsi	Greece	Co-chair

Contact Dermatitis

Ana Gimenez-Arnau	Spain	Chair
Ana Balato	Italy	Co-chair
Suzana Ljubojevic	Croatia	Co-chair

Cosmetic Dermatology

Christopher Rowland Payne	UK	Chair
Emanuel Carvalheiro Marques	Portugal	Co-chair
Pierre Andre	France	Co-chair

Dermatology for Cancer Patients

Vincent Sibaud	France	Chair
Azael Freites-Martinez	Spain	Co-chair
Zoe Apalla	Greece	Co-chair

Dermatopathology

Franco Rongioletti	Italy	Chair
Maria Teresa Fernandez-Figueras	Spain	Co-chair

Eczema/Atopic Dermatitis

Magda Trzeciak	Poland	Chair
Dirk Jan Hijnen	The Netherlands	Co-chair
Andreas Wollenberg	Germany	Co-chair

Epidemiology

Marlies Wakkee	The Netherlands	Chair
Emilie Sbidian	France	Co-chair
Clio Dessinioti	Greece	Co-chair

Genodermatoses

Johann Bauer	Austria	Chair
Christine Bodemer	France	Co-chair

Hair Diseases

Michela Starace	Italy	Chair
Matilde Iorizzo	Switzerland	Co-chair
Alexandros Katoulis	Greece	Co-chair

History of Dermatology

Michael Geiges	Switzerland	Chair
Chukwudi Nwabudike	Romania	Co-chair

HPV Infection

Mihael Skerlev	Croatia	Chair
Arne Vikström	Sweden	Co-chair

Laser Dermatology and Energy Based Devices (EDB)

Leonardo Marini	Italy	Chair
Ashraf Badawi	Egypt	Co-chair
Hans-Joachim Laubach	Switzerland	Co-chair

Melanoma

Monika Arenbergerova	Czech Republic	Chair
Ketty Peris	Italy	Co-chair

Mycology

Ditte Marie Saunte	Denmark	Chair
Carmen Rodriguez – Cardeira	Spain	Co-chair
Roderick James Hay	UK	Co-chair

Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer

Mahtab Samimi	France	Chair
Ettore Minutilli	Italy	Co-chair
Myrto Trakatelli	Greece	Co-chair

Nurses in Dermatology

Sheila Ryan	Ireland	Chair
Elfie Deprez	Belgium	Co-chair

Occupational Skin Disease

Swen Malte John	Germany	Chair
Thomas Rustenmeyer	The Netherlands	Co-chair

Office Management

Monica Gniadecka	Denmark	Chair
Georges Reuter	France	Co-chair
Rolf Ostendorf	Germany	Co-chair

Paediatric Dermatology

Dirk Van Gysel	Belgium	Chair
Vincenzo Piccolo	Italy	Co-chair

Patient Advocacy

Myrto Trakatelli	Greece	Chair
Catherine van Montfrans	The Netherlands	Co-chair
Aleksandra Lesiak	Poland	Co-chair

Phlebology

Felizitas Pannier	Germany	Chair
Catherine van Montfrans	The Netherlands	Co-chair
George Sorin Tiplica	Romania	Co-chair

Pruritus

Sonja Ständer	Germany	Chair
Adam Reich	Poland	Co-chair
Evangelia Papadavid	Greece	Co-chair

Psoriasis

Jo Lambert	Belgium	Chair
Luis Puig	Spain	Co-chair

Psychodermatology

Laurent Misery	France	Chair
Antony Bewley	UK	Co-chair
Flora Balieva	Norway	Co-chair

Quality of Life and Patient-Oriented Outcomes

Pavel Chernyshov	Ukraine	Chair
Liana Manolache	Romania	Co-chair

Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI)

George Sorin Tiplica	Romania	Chair
Derek Freedman	Ireland	Co-chair

Skin Ageing

Gürkan Kaya	Switzerland	Chair
Joachim Fluhr	Germany	Co-chair

Skin Diseases in Pregnancy

Julia-Tatjana Maul	Switzerland	Chair
Brigitte Stephan	Germany	Co-chair
Sara Pruneddu	UK	Co-chair

Skin in Organ Transplant Recipients (OTRs)

Alexandra Geusau	Austria	Chair
Carla Ferrandiz-Pulido	Spain	Co-chair
Mirjam Nägeli	Switzerland	Co-chair

Tattoos and Body Art

Christa de Cuyper	Belgium	Chair
Patrycja Rogowska	Poland	Co-chair
Hugues Cartier	France	Co-chair

Teledermatology

Linda Tognetti	Italy	Chair
Elvira Moscarella	Italy	Co-chair
Paola Pasquali	Spain	Co-chair

Tropical Dermatology

Rüdiger Panzer	Germany	Chair
Niels Horst	The Netherlands	Co-chair
Lara Maul-Duwendag	Switzerland	Co-chair

Urticaria / Angioedema

Torsten Zuberbier	Germany	Chair
Emek Kocatürk	Turkey	Co-chair

Vasculitis and Vasculopathy

Cord Sunderkötter	Germany	Chair
Erkan Alpsoy	Turkey	Co-chair
Marzia Caproni	Italy	Co-chair

Vitiligo

Nanja Van Geel	Belgium	Chair
Julien Seneschal	France	Co-chair

Wound Healing

Marco Romanelli	Italy	Chair
Anne Dompmartin-Blanchere	France	Co-chair
Jürg Hafner	Switzerland	Co-chair

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