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Dermatology research Professor H. Peter Soyer, MD, FACD, has been recently appointed by the University of Queensland to chair the newly founded Dermatology Group on July 1, 2007. He is located at the Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH).
He has published many articles in high-ranking journals in the fields of dermatology, dermatopathology & pathology and also in oncology. The content of his scientific oeuvre represents research in clinical dermatology and dermatopathology with special emphasis on clinico-pathologic correlation. He has particularly published numerous articles in dermoscopy of pigmented skin lesions and he can be regarded as one of the pioneers of this non-invasive diagnostic method in Europe and possibly worldwide. In the last years he focused his scientific activities on teledermatology, teledermatopathology and teledermoscopy and established recently a Research Unit of Teledermatology within the Department of Dermatology at the Medical University of Graz. In 2002, Professor Soyer founded the telederm.org project, an Internet platform for freely available teleconsultations in dermatology.
Professor Soyer is co-founder and currently president of the International Dermoscopy Society and was congress president of the First Congress of the International Dermoscopy Society held this April in Naples. He is also co-founder and president on the International Society of Teledermatology and organized the First World Congress of Teledermatology in Graz in November 2006. On the national level in Austria he is auditor of the secretary-treasurer of the Austrian Society of Dermatology and member of the National Telemedicine Taskforce.
He is on the editorial board of Dermatology of several high-ranking dermatological journals and has initiated several high profile postgraduate educational activities on dermoscopy including an annual “International Short Course on Dermoscopy” held annually in July in Graz and a purely e-learning “International Dermoscopy Diploma”, which started in October 2006 on the Virtual Medical Campus of the Medical University of Graz.
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