Psoriasis: Targets and Therapy

Dr Tina Bhutani

Dr Bhutani

Department of Dermatology, The University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

Dr. Tina Bhutani is an Associate Professor in the Department of Dermatology at UCSF where she serves as Co-Director of the Psoriasis and Skin Treatment Center and Director of the Dermatology Clinical Research Unit. She is passionate about improving the care and lives of patients with psoriasis, eczema, and other inflammatory skin disorders. In addition to patient care, she has an expertise in clinical research and is involved in many trials focusing on the development of new treatments for these diseases and learning more about mechanisms of disease initiation and maintenance.

Her independent research focuses on assessing and improving quality of life and mental health in patients with psoriasis and eczema. She is currently conducting studies to characterize sleep health in psoriasis patients and studying the impact of chronic sleep disturbance on disease severity, quality of life, and the development of associated comorbidities. Dr. Bhutani received her medical training at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and completed her dermatology residency, including a chief resident year, at UCSF.

Professor Enzo Errichetti

Professor Errichetti

Institute of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, University of Udine, Udine, Italy

Enzo Errichetti is Associate Professor at the Institute of Dermatology (Department of Medicine) of the University of Udine (Italy). He is the President of the Italian Association of Non-Invasive Diagnostics in Dermatology (AIDNID), Member of European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR) Task Force “Points to Consider for the definition of clinical and imaging features suspicious for progression to psoriatic arthritis, 2021 22D”, Executive Board member of the International Dermoscopy Society (IDS), Chair of the IDS Task Force on “Imaging in Skin of color”, and Chair of the Società Italiana di Dermatologia medica, chirurgica, estetica e di Malattie Sessualmente Trasmesse (SIDeMaST) Task Force on “Ethnic Dermatology”.

Internationally recognized as one of the pioneers and top experts about the dermoscopic applications in non-invasive diagnosis of inflammatory, infectious and infiltrative dermatoses (General Dermatology) as well as the use of dermoscopy in skin of color for neoplastic and non-neoplastic dermatoses. He is also active in the field of psoriasis, especially on the study of transition from psoriasis to psoriatic arthritis. He has been coordinator of several international multicentric studies involving research centers of 27 different countries in the world (EUROPE: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Poland, Serbia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland; ASIA: Saudi Arabia, Japan, India, Israel, Iran and Turkey; AMERICA: Argentina, Brazil, Chile and the United States of America; OCEANIA: Australia; AFRICA: Egypt, Guinea, Morocco, Nigeria and Rwanda). He is author of around 200 papers published in international peer-reviewed journals and over 50 book chapters as well as editor of four international books on dermoscopy and psoriasis.

He is also Section Editor/Associate Editor/Editorial Member of PubMed/Scopus indexed International Dermatological Journals (Dermatology and Therapy; Clinical, Cosmetic and Investigational Dermatology; Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology; Dermatology Practical and Conceptual; Italian Journal of Dermatology and Venereology; The Open Journal of Dermatology; Dermatology Reports; Turkish Journal of Dermatology; and Dermatopathology) and served as reviewer for more than 60 international journals and was awarded as top peer reviewer in 2017, 2018 and 2019 by Publons.