TASK
FORCES
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.
Aims and duties
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.
Task Force 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.
Please note that the Task Force roster is being updated.
Acne/Rosacea/Hidradenitis Suppurativa
Christos Zouboulis
Gregor Jemec
Artificial Intelligence in Dermatology
Josep Malvehy
Harald Kittler
Giovanni Pellacani
Autoimmune Blistering Diseases
Enno Schmidt
Patsatsi Katerina
Contact Dermatitis
Ana M Giménez-Arnau
Ana Balato
Cosmetic Dermatology
Christopher Rowland Payne
Ljiljana Medenica
Pierre Andre
Dermatology for Cancer Patients
Vincent Sibaud
Azael Freites Martinez
Gabriella Fabbrocini
Dermato-pathology
Franco Rongioletti
Maria Teresa Fernandez-Figueras
Eczema/Atopic Dermatitis
Mette Deleuran
Andreas Wollenberg
Sebastien Barbarot
Epidemiology
Marlies Wakke
Emilie Sbidian
Genodermatoses
Johann Bauer
Christine Bodemer
May El-Hachem
History of Dermatology
Chukwudi Nwabudike
Michael Geiges
HPV Infection
Mihael Skerlev
Gerd Gross
Arne Vikström
Laser Dermatology and Energy Based Devices (EDB)
Leonardo Marini
Hans-Joachim Laubach
Ashraf Badawi
Melanoma
Monika Arenbergerova
Ketty Peris
Mycology
Ditte Marie Saunte
Roderick Hay
Carmen Rodriguez – Cerdeira
Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer
Mahtab Samimi
Ettore Minutilli
Myrto Trakatelli
Nurses in dermatology
Sheila Ryan
Elfie Deprez
Occupational Skin Disease
Swen Malte John
Thomas Rustemeyer
Office Management
Monica Gniadecka
Georges Reuter
Rolf Ostendorf
Paediatric Dermatology
Ramon Grimalt
Zsuzsanna Szalai
Patient Advocacy
Catherine van Montfrans
Aleksandra Lesiak
Phlebology
Felizitas Pannier
George Sorin Tiplica
Catherine Van Montfrans
Pruritus
Sonja Ständer
Adam Reich
Jon Anders Halvorsen
Psoriasis
Jo Lambert
Luis Puig
Psycho-dermatology
Laurent Misery
Anthony Bewley
Flora Balieva
Quality of Life and Patient Oriented Outcomes
Pavel Chernyshov
Lucia Tomas-Aragones
Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI)
George Sorin Tiplica
Derek Freedman
Angela Robinson
Skin Ageing
Gürkan Kaya
Joachim Fluhr
Skin Diseases in Pregnancy
Christina Ambros-Rudolph
Robert Muellegger
Julia-Tatjana Maul
Skin in Organ Transplant Recipients (OTRs)
Alexandra Geusau
Carla Ferrandiz-Pulido
Mirjam Nägeli
Tattoos and Body Art
Nicolas Kluger
Hugues Cartier
Teledermatology
Linda Tognetti
Elvira Moscarella
Paola Pasquali
Tropical Dermatology
Federica Dassoni
Andreas Montag
Rosemarie Moser
Urticaria / Angioedema
Torsten Zuberbier
Vasculitis and Vasculopathy
Cord Sunderkötter
Erkan Alpsoy
Marzia Caproni
Vitiligo
Nanja Van Geel
Julien Seneschal
Wound Healing
Marco Romanelli
Jürg Hafner
Anne Dompmartin-Blanchere
Contact us
For further information, please contact the Task Force Office at taskforces@eadv.org.
If you are an EADV Member and wish to contact directly one of the Task Force leaders, you may also go to the members’ search option “Find a member”, in your myEADV section