The course is open to all dermatologists wishing to acquire a basic knowledge of photodermatology, including of phototherapy. All essential aspects of the subject will be discussed.
This course is organised by Prof. Piergiacomo Calzavara-Pinton in Brescia, Lake Garda, Italy on Friday 17th and Saturday 18th of November 2017.
For more information, please download our Preliminary Programme ( format, size: 724kb).
Committee Members Rik Roelandts, Jean Krutmann and Giovanni Leone at the ESPD Photodermatology Day, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2010 Dr Gillian Murphy at the ESPD Photodermatology Day, Lisbon, Portgual, October 2011
The second European course in Photodermatology was held on the 16th and 17th May 2014. It was a joint ESPD and National Photobiology Unit Beaumont & Mater Hospitals training course. The course was opened to all dermatologists wishing to acquire a basic knowledge of photodermatology, including of phototherapy. All essential aspects of the subject was discussed, with sessions on basic photobiology and photophysics, normal human skin responses to ultraviolet irradiation, photocarcinogenesis , the photodermatoses and their investigation, sunbed effects, vitamin D matters, photoprotection and phototherapy. A clinical session demonstrating photodermatology patients and a visit to photodermatology investigation unit was also included.