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Concise yet complete overview of the pathophysiology and clinical features of hidradenitis suppurativa, together with and an accessible review of the most up-to-date methods of diagnosis and management, providing clinician's with an excellent quick reference tool
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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Harvard Medical School , Boston, USA
Alexa B. Kimball
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Department of Dermatology, Univ of Copenhagen Roskilde Hosp Department of Dermatology, Roskilde, Denmark
Gregor B.E. Jemec
About the editors
Dr. Kimball has served on multiple non-profit boards including the Society for Investigative Dermatology, where she was elected vice president; the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy; and the Hidradenitis Suppurativa Foundation. She is also President of the International Psoriasis Council and actively involved in the philanthropic campaigns of several non-profit scientific and medical organizations.
Dr. Kimball received her MD from the Yale School of Medicine, her MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and dual bachelor's degrees in molecular biology and public and international affairs from Princeton University. She completed an internship in medicine at the then-Beth Israel Hospital, her residency in dermatology at Stanford University Medical Center and a clinical research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health.
Gregor B.E. Jemec, MD, DMSc, is the founding Chairman at the Department of Dermatology, Zealand University Hospital and full
Professor at the Health Sciences Faculty of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has broad academic interests in many fields of dermatology and one of his main areas of interest is hidradenitis suppurativa. He was awarded his medical doctorate for early research into hidradenitis by the University of Copenhagen in 1998, and the Inaugural Hidradenitis Suppurativa Foundation Outstanding Investigator award by the Hidradenitis Suppurativa Foundation at the First International Research meeting on Hidradenitis Suppurativa in Dessau, Germany 2006.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hidradenitis Suppurativa
Book Subtitle: A Disease Primer
Editors: Alexa B. Kimball, Gregor B.E. Jemec
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50594-7
Publisher: Adis Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-50593-0Published: 29 March 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-50594-7Published: 20 March 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 53
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Dermatology