Celebrating Anders Vahlquist in Uppsala, Sweden
HANNA NORSTED, PHD, SCIENTIFIC
WRITER
Acta Dermato-Venereologica, S:t Johannesgatan 22A, SE-753 12 Uppsala, Sweden.
E-mail: hanna.norsted@medicaljournals.se
A meeting was held on 20 September 2013 to celebrate the
career of Professor Anders Vahlquist, who was leaving his
position at the Department of Medical Sciences at Uppsala
University after a long and successful career at a clinical level
as well as in academia. The day, planned by Dr Ola Rollman
and coworkers, was spent at Uppsala University Hospital where
Anders has worked since 1976 up to now, with an interruption
of 9 years in Linköping in between.
Invited speakers had come from near and far to pay respect
to Anders. Professor Jonathan Rees from the University of
Edinburgh held a thought-provoking lecture entitled ‘From
Gutenburg to Zuckerburg’, where he discussed teaching and
learning in dermatology. He was joined by Dr Lisa Naysmith
from the Royal In?rmary Hospital in Edinburgh, who showed
encouraging results from her skin cancer clinic where they
always perform full body skin examinations, which greatly increase the chance to diagnose malignant melanoma. Professor
Kristian Thestrup-Pedersen from Nykøbing, discussed genetics in
dermatology by showing clinical pictures of genodermatoses,
such as Papillon-Lefevre syndrome. The discovery that this
syndrome was caused by a gene defect deciphered important
pathogenic mechanisms, not only in the skin (keratoderma)
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