SPIN - Skin Inflammation & Psoriasis International Network

Newsletter n°32 - MAY 2020

First of all, SPIN team sincerely hopes you and your loved ones are all well in these troubled times. We wish good luck to all of those, who have started the deconfinement.

FOCUS ON

SPIN COVID-19 Resource Center

As a network whose mission is ‘to improve the quality of healthcare for patients suffering

from chronic inflammatory skin diseases’, it is important for us to support you by sharing

information related to the potential impact of this pandemic on patients. That is the reason

why, a COVID-19 resource center page has been created recently on our website.

Here is the summary of our content material:

SPIN's support to the development of 3 registries → PsoProtect via https://psoprotect.org, SECURE-AD via https://covidderm.org and SECURE-Alopecia via http://securealopecia.covidderm.org/

SPIN’s Scientific Committee’s recommendation as EADV Psoriasis Task Force for patients under systemic treatments. Read More from EADV

NEWS FROM THE WEBOFFICE

Atopic Dermatitis Directory

In light of SPIN's expansion to include other major chronic skin disorders, our goal in

the second half of 2020 is to build a list of the services available to AD patients in

dermatology centers in the world. It will be available within SPIN’s website. As done in the past

for Psoriasis, this tool will be developed with the support of our national representatives.

In Memoriam-Prof Nelida Raimondo (Argentina)

SPIN team has learned with great sadness of the death of Nelida Aurora Raimondo on

January 7th, 2020. She was a PSO Scientific Committee member but also as PSO National

representative for Argentina and helped a lot building an efficient collaboration between our

international network and the Argentinian network.

EVENTS

Postponed

-4th National Psoriasis Symposium/SPIN Symposium, Bodrum, TURKEY: due to the COVID-19

pandemic, the 4th National Psoriasis Symposium in Bodrum, expected on April 16-19, 2020 has

been postponed. We were looking forward to having a SPIN symposium during their national

event. It has been tentatively rescheduled on October 15-18, 2020. We will keep you posted.

-ASDV (African Society of Dermatology & Venerology) congress, Nairobi, KENYA: due to the

COVID-19 pandemic, this meeting had to be cancelled as well. No new date is available for the

moment. For more information please check www.asdvafrica.org.

Upcoming

-SIMID 2020 / 3rd European Workshop on Skin Immune Mediated Inflammatory Diseases,

Verona, Italy: this congress planned on 24-26 September, 2020 will be converted to a digital

session. For more information please check www.simid2020.org.

-29th EADV congress, Vienna, AUSTRIA: the annual congress planned on October 28 - 1

November, 2020 will for now go ahead as planned and the PSO Task Force meeting will take

place on October 28^th, 2020 from 8 to 10am.

For more information about EADV congress please check www.eadv.org.

KIND REMINDERS

Sharing experience:

Please remember that you can share your work and activities with the whole

network through our newsletter and our website’s news section. Just send us an email ! We are

here also to foster international collaborations.

Country Sites: do you remember this tool?

It is an important feature of SPIN’s website, which allows (among other options) the

registration of your national psoriasis or your atopic dermatitis working group or your patients’

association. This way you become visible at international level to dermatologists, GPs, patients

suffering from those diseases. If not done yet, please take some time to register! Read more...

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