EADV Task Force Urticaria / Angioedema
Mission
The Urticaria Task Force aims to advance the understanding, diagnosis, and management of urticaria through collaborative research, consensus-building, and education. It strives to harmonize clinical practice, improve patient outcomes, and address unmet needs by integrating scientific evidence with real-world clinical expertise.
The Urticaria/ Angioedema Task Force aims to advance the understanding, diagnosis, and management of urticaria through collaborative research, consensus-building, and education. It strives to harmonise clinical practice, improve patient outcomes, and address unmet needs by integrating scientific evidence with real-world clinical expertise.
The Urticaria Task Force pursues its mission through the following activities:
- Developing consensus definitions and recommendations
- Contributing to and supporting international guidelines and evidence-based clinical practice
- Initiating and coordinating multicentre research projects
- Designing and conducting Task Force–initiated surveys to address clinical gaps and practice patterns
- Organising and contributing to scientific sessions, workshops, and educational activities within EADV
- Promoting standardisation of terminology and outcome measures across studies and clinical care
- Collaborating with international networks to strengthen global impact
- Supporting knowledge dissemination through publications, newsletters, and digital platforms
- Identifying unmet clinical and research needs and proposing innovative solutions
Task Force composition
- Chair: Torsten Zuberbier, Germany
- Co-chair: Emek Kocatürk, Türkiye
- Werner Aberer, Austria
- Sabine Altrichter, Austria
- Annick Barbaud, France
- Carsten Bindslev-Jensen, Denmark
- Mojca Bizjak, Slovenia
- Hanna Bonnekoh, Germany
- Pavel Chernyshov, Ukraine
- Razvigor Darlenski, Bulgaria
- Ragip Ertas, Türkiye
- Ignasi Figueras Nart, Spain
- Joachim Fluhr, Germany
- Ana Gimenez-Arnau, Spain
- Margarida Goncalo, Portugal
- Clive Grattan, Great Britain
- Stamatios Gregoriou, Greece
- Alexander Kapp, Germany
- Zeynep Keskinkaya, Türkiye
- Pavel Kolkhir, Germany
- Caroline Mann, Germany
- Melba Lucia Munoz Roldan, Germany
- Iman Nasr, Oman
- Sinem Örnek, UK
- Manuel Pereira, Portugal
- David Pesqué, Spain
- Indrashis Podder, India
- Michael Rudenko, UK
- Andac Salman, Türkiye
- Peter Schmid-Grendelmeier, Switzerland
- Angele Soria, France
- Petra Staubach, Germany
- Ozlem Su Küçük, Türkiye
- Simon Francis Thomsen, Denmark
- Vesna Trajkova, North Macedonia
- Gino Vena, Italy
- Susan Waserman, Canada
- Bettina Wedi, Germany
- Yikui Xiang, China
- Anna Zalewska-Janowska, Poland