V E T F
  Vitiligo European Task Force

 

 

VETF Meeting in honor of Yvon Gauthier

"Vitiligo: The Koebner phenomenon revisited and other topics"

Bordeaux, March 1st, 2008

Organizers : Alain Taïeb and Mauro Picardo on behalf of the VETF, and
                      Association des Dermato-Vénéréologues du Sud Ouest  (ADVSO)

Venue:         Hotel Burdigala, Bordeaux

9h -13h (incl coffee break)

Chairs: Dorothy Bennett (London), Jean Paul Ortonne (Nice)

    Alain Taïeb (Bordeaux) : Yvon Gauthier and the Koebner phenomenon

    Mauro Picardo (Rome) : The Koebner phenomenon and in vitro susceptibility of
                                              melanocytes to physical and chemical stimuli.

    JP W Van der Veen (Amsterdam) : Occupational vitiligo: between Koebnerization
                                                                and elicitation.
    Nanja van Geel (Ghent) : The Koebner phenomenon and other selection criteria in
                                                surgical therapies for vitiligo

    Mats Olsson (Uppsala) : Transcriptional profile of melanocytes from vitiligo
                                              patients

    Adrian Tanew (Vienna) : Is it useful to combine topical treatments with narrowband
                                              UVB for vitiligo?

    Giovanni Leone (Rome) : The efficacy of different sources for targeted
                                                phototherapy in vitiligo

    Yvon Gauthier (Bordeaux) : Personal views and concluding remarks
 

Lunch (with discussion of ongoing VETF projects)

Afternoon proposal : visit of Bordeaux Wine Châteaux (St Emilion, Médoc or Sauternes)

Dinner : to be decided with ADVSO

VETF visit at the Vitiligo clinic of the National Skin Center (Singapore) - July 2007

Alain Taïeb, Mauro Picardo, on behalf of the other VETF members.
The definition and assessment of vitiligo: a consensus report of the
Vitiligo European Task Force.
PCR 20 (1), 27–35 (2007)
     (with permission from the PCR Editor)

 

Vitiligo_Report Barcelona 2006

 

 

Report on the 19th IPCC Vitiligo Symposium