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Jerry K. L. Tan MD FRCPC is an adjunct professor at the University of Western Ontario, the principal investigator of Windsor Clinical Research Inc., and in private practice in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. His MD was obtained at Queen’s University; internal medicine residency at the University of Toronto; and dermatology residency at the Universities of British Columbia and Michigan. His research focus is on acne, rosacea, clinical assessment methodology, patient-reported outcomes and medical decision-making. He was awarded a Canadian Dermatology Foundation grant in 2009 for decision-making and on development of decision aids and was the lead investigator for the Canadian Acne Epidemiology Project. He is the chair of the steering committee of the Canadian Acne Clinical Practice Guidelines project. He has served on the organizing committee of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research workshop on skin disease research priorities and is a therapeutic advisor on evidence-based review panels in Canada and the United States. He serves on the editorial board of various dermatology journals and is the chair of scholarship and co-chair of free communications committees, respectively, of the World Congress of Dermatology 2015. He has published more than 70 scientific articles in peer reviewed journals and has presented research findings at national and international meetings.

Dr Raj Kubba is MB, BS (Delhi University), MRCP (UK), FRCP (Canada), FRCP (Edinburgh) and he is a Diplomate of the American Board of Dermatology. He is also an adjunct Professor in the Department of Dermatology, at Boston University School of Medicine and he is the consultant of the Delhi Dermatology Group, at Kubba Clinic of which he is the owner, in New Delhi. During his carrier, he has various affiliations in different establishments as Addenbrooke’s Hospital at Cambridge, in England or the Queen’s University, at Kingston, in Ontario in Canada. Prof. Kubba has published numerous scientific articles in national and international journals about subjects like: phototherapy, contact dermatitis, Leishmaniasis, acne or Vitiligo. He is also the author of five book chapters. He is member of several organizations like the Committee of Global Alliance for Acne, the American Dermatological Association, the British Association of Dermatologists and European Academy of Dermato-Venereology.

Prof. Christos C. Zouboulis studied Medicine and Political Sciences at the National and Capodistria University of Athens, Greece. He was specialized in Dermatology and Venereology, Allergology, Andrology and Proctology at the University Medical Center of the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, where he also received his Doctorate and Habilitation grades and was named Professor of Dermatology and Venereology in 2000. Since 2005, he is Director of the Departments of Dermatology, Venereology, Allergology and Immunology at Dessau Medical Center (Dessau, Germany). Prof. Zouboulis has performed fundamental research on the sebaceous gland and acne, Dermato-Endocrinology and molecular ageing, skin stem cells, hidradenitis suppurativa/acne inversa as well as on Adamantiades-Behçet’ disease and cryosurgery. He was awarded several distinctions, among them the Oskar Gans Prize, the EADV Research Fellowship, the Felix Wankel Animal Protection Research Prize, the Paul Gerson Unna Prize and the Springer Prize for Dermatology and research grants on ageing, stem cells and hidradenitis suppurativa/acne inversa by the EU and the BMBF. Prof. Zouboulis has published over 500 scientific articles, 24 books, 100 book chapters, and 6 patents and he has given over 500 invited lectures. He is associate editor of Dermato-Endocrinology, co-editor of Rejuvenation Research, assistant editor of Dermatology, former associate editor of the Journal of Investigative Dermatology and active member of the editorial board and guest editor of several international scientific journals. Prof. Zouboulis is president of the European Hidradenitis Suppurativa Foundation and president of the European Society of Preventive, Regenerative and Anti-Aging Medicine (ESAAM). He is also chair of the Honours and Awards Committee of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV), chair of the EADV task force for acne and rosacea, chair of the F1000 Acne and Rosacea section, Chair of the Guideline Committees for Hidradenitis suppurativa / Acne inversa of the German Dermatological Society (DDG) and the European Dermatology Forum (EDF), founder of the Working Group Dermato-Endocrinology of the German Society of Dermatological Research and the Dermato-Endocrinology Circle of the German Dermatological Society, member of the Executive Committee and chair of the Epidemiology section of the International Society for Behçet’s disease, president of the Charity „Deutsches Register Morbus Adamantiades-Behçet e.V.“, and past president of the Hidradenitis Suppurativa Foundation Inc. He is also an honorary member of several civil and scientific societies and Dr. h.c. of the National and Capodistria University of Athens.

Elena Araviiskaia is a Dermato-venereologist and Professor in the Department of Dermatology and Venereology of First Pavlov State Medical University of Saint-Petersburg, Russia. She is the Head of the Postgraduate Educational Course in Cosmetic Dermatology, and a consultant at the Saint-Petersburg Institute of Beauty. Professor Araviiskaia studied medicine at First Pavlov Medical Institute of Saint-Petersburg and undertook her post-graduate training in dermatology in its Department of Dermatology and Venereal Diseases. In 1994, she was awarded a Dermatology Fellowship at Saint John’s Dermatology Hospital in London under the guidance of Professors Niel Smith and Robin Eady. Professor Araviiskaia is a member of many national and international societies, including the Board of the V.M. Tarnovsky Saint-Petersburg Society of Dermato-venerologists, European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, “Global Alliance Acne Treatment”, “Rosacea Advisory Board”. She is a member of the Editorial Board of “Vestnik Dermatologiii Venerologii” (Russia), "Dermatologia Clinichna" (Poland). Elena Araviiskaia has authored more than 150 papers on skin diseases and venereology, relating in particular to acne, facial dermatoses, cosmetic dermatology, dermato-pathology, and psycho-dermatology. Her PhD thesis was devoted to poikilodermic mycosis fungoides. She is author and editor of a textbook of Dermato-cosmetology. Additional publications include textbooks on acne, cosmeceuticals and urticaria, as well as chapters in textbooks on hair diseases, dermato-venereology for medical students, cosmetology handbook and others. Elena Araviiskaia is an author of the Russian National Guidelines on acne, rosacea and urticaria. Professor Araviiskaia is an active media presence, being a frequent participant in TV and radio programs devoted to acne, skin ageing, rosacea and general health.

Le Dr Olivier Revol est chef du Service de Neuropsychiatrie de l’Enfant à l’Hôpital neurologique au Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lyon et enseigne cette discipline à l’Université Lyon 1. Il est également le responsable du Centre de Référence des Troubles d’Apprentissage dans cet établissement. Pédiatre de formation, il passe sa thèse de médecine sur les aspects éthiques, juridiques et psychologiques des procréations médicalement assistées. Après avoir été interne des Hôpitaux psychiatriques de Lyon puis attaché chef de clinique de la Faculté de Médecine Lyon-Sud, le Dr Revol se spécialise en psychiatrie de l’enfant et de l’adolescent. En 2005, il devient chef du Service de Neuropsychiatrie de l’Enfant à Lyon. Les centres d’intérêts cliniques du Dr Revol sont les troubles du comportement chez les enfants et adolescents ainsi que leur prise en charge. Il a notamment écrit plusieurs ouvrages à destination du grand public où il trouve les mots justes pour aider des parents désœuvrés face à des situations difficiles. Ces travaux portent également sur la précocité intellectuelle, les difficultés scolaires et la dépression chez ces jeunes patients. Le Dr Revol est l’auteur de nombreuses publications dans la presse spécialisée et il est invité à présenter ces travaux dans de nombreux congrès nationaux et internationaux. En 2006, il a reçu les Palmes Académiques, distinction honorant un parcours académique d’exception.