3rd Allergy and the Skin Study Day

Tuesday 12th November 2013

Programme

9:30

Registration

Session 1 – Chair: Carsten Flohr

10:00- 10:05

Welcome & Introduction

Dr Carsten Flohr,
St Thomas’ Hospital

10:05-10.30

Photoallergy and photo patch testing – an update

Dr Robert Sarkany,
St Thomas’ Hospital

10:30- 10:55

The new BAD guidelines for the management of TEN   

Dr Daniel Creamer, King’s College Hospital

10:55-11:20

Tea/Coffee

Session 2 – Chair: Clive Grattan

11:20-11:50

Drug reactions – when to worry?

Dr Mike Ardern-Jones, University of Southampton

11:50-12:15

Q&A session with panel experts

12:15-13:15

Lunch

Session 3 – Chair: Jonathan White

13:15-13:40

Update on chronic urticaria management guidelines

Dr Clive Grattan,
St Thomas’Hospital

13:40-14:10

Omalizumab for the treatment of chronic urticaria

Prof Marcus Maurer, Berlin, Germany

14:10-14:40

How not to miss autoinflammatory diseases masquerading as urticaria?

Dr Karoline Krause, Berlin, Germany

14:40-15:05

Tea/Coffee

Session 4 – Chair: Carsten Flohr

15:05-15:35

Mechanisms of chronic itch and scratch – AA Anniversary Lecture

Prof Gil Yosipovitch, Winston Salem, USA

15:35-16:05

Management of chronic itch

Prof Thomas Luger, Munster, Germany

16:05-16:30

Q&A session with panel experts

16:35

Closure - Carsten Flohr, 
St Thomas’ Hospital