All posts tagged author interviews

Inherited variants in the MC1R gene and survival from cutaneous melanoma: Author Interview

Inherited variants in the MC1R gene and survival from cutaneous melanoma: a BioGenoMEL study. Author Interview:  Dr. Julia A Newton Bishop Professor of Dermatology, Section of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Leeds, Cancer Genetics Building, St James’s University Hospital  Leeds, LS9 7TF What are the main findings of the study? This study [...]

Human Risk of Infection with Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme Disease Agent, in Eastern US – Author Interview

Human Risk of Infection with Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme Disease Agent, in Eastern United States Author Interview:  Maria Ana Diuk-Wasser PhD Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) at the Yale School of Medicine. Read the Press Release and View Map of Lyme Disease Risk What are the main findings of the study? This study identifies area of high [...]

Prevalence of eczema and food allergy is associated with latitude in Australia: Dr. Osborne

Author Interview: Nicholas J. Osborne, PhD European Centre for Environment and Human Health, Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Exeter, Truro, United Kingdom Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia What are the main findings of the study? The main findings of the study was that eczema, [...]

Small UV B dose every second week sufficient to maintain summer Vit D levels: Dr. Bogh

A small suberythemal ultraviolet B dose every second week is sufficient to maintain summer vitamin D levels: a randomized controlled trial Author interview: Morten Bogh MD, PhD What are the main findings of the study? Our objective was to define the frequency of ultraviolet-B (UVB) exposure necessary for maintaining sufficient summer serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 (25(OH)D) levels during a 16-weeks [...]

Ultrasound in dermatology: Principles and applications – Dr. Kleinerman

Ultrasound in dermatology: Principles and applications Author Interview: Rebecca Kleinerman, MD Department of Dermatology Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York, New York We wrote a review article about the use of ultrasound technology in dermatology.More and more, we are reading about ultrasound as both a diagnostic and therapeutic entity in our field. It was first used in [...]

Psoriatic Arthritis: Authors’ Interview Drs. Day & Goodman

Psoriatic Arthritis Authors’  Interview: Michael Sean Day, MD, MPhil and Susan Goodman, MD From the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases, New York, NY (Dr. Day), and the Department of Rheumatology (Dr. Goodman), Hospital for Special Surgery, New York. What are the main findings of the review? DMARDs (disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs) and biologics are the mainstay [...]