ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

Philippe Autier

University of Strathclyde Institute of Global Public Health at iPRI, International Prevention Research Institute

VP Population Research

Philippe Autier was born in Brussels, Belgium, and received a Doctor of Medicine degree from the Université Libre de Bruxelles and a diploma in tropical medicine from the Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp in 1983. He started his professional life by joining the humanitarian non-governmental organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), where he helped in Honduras (1985 and 1986), and later in Chad (1987-88) as the medical coordinator of projects conducted by a team of about 50 expatriates and 200 Chadian health workers. In 1988-89, Ph Autier was the first head of the medical department of MSF-Belgium. Ph Autier is one of the founder and a board member of the organisation AEDES (www.aedes.be) that provides expertise in public health to low and middle income countries. In 1990 he received a Fulbright fellowship with a grant from the Frank Boas Foundation to study at Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, where he was awarded an M.P.H. In 2011, he received a PhD degree from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam for his works on the cutaneous melanoma. Philippe Autier has been head of the Prevention and Screening Department of the Jules Bordet Institute in Brussels (1992-95 and 2002-2005), Deputy Director at the European Institute of Oncology in Milano (1995-2000), and Group Head at the International Agency for research on Cancer in Lyon (2000-2010). Philippe Autier is a leading figure in several fields including research on the cutaneous melanoma and breast cancer, especially in domain related to the causation, prevention and early detection of these cancers. He is also much involved in the clinical testing of new methods for cancer detection and in health technology assessment. In 2013 he was appointed as Professor at Strathclyde University. Philippe Autier is Vice President, Population Research, at the International Prevention Research Institute.

Jean‑François Doré

INSERM

Emeritus Research Director

Jean-François Doré was born in 1940 in Fécamp, France, graduated LSc Nat from the Faculty of Sciences, University of Paris, and obtained a Doctorate in Human Biology (Experimental Oncology) from the Faculty of Medicine, University Paris XI. He joined INSERM (French National Institute for Health and Medical Research), and worked in Villejuif (Institute of Cancerology and Immunogenetics) and Lyon (Léon Bérard Cancer Centre) where he was Director of an Immunology and Experimental Oncology INSERM Research Unit. Now retired, he is INSERM Emeritus Research Director (at INSERM Unit 1265 “Radiations: Defense, Health, Environment”, Lyon). Jean-François Doré’s main activities are on human melanoma, exposure to natural and artificial ultraviolet radiation and skin cancer prevention. He was a founding member of the EORTC Melanoma Group. He serves as an expert for the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (Anses). A former president of the European Society for skin cancer prevention (Euroskin), he is currently president of Sécurité Solaire, a WHO collaborating centre. He was awarded the Order of Merit of the French Republic (Knight, 1978).

Sara Gandini

European Institute of Oncology

Group Leader, Department of Experimental Oncology

I am Tenure Group Leader at the Department of Experimental Oncology in IEO (Milan).

Since 2016 I am adjunct professor in medical statistic at University “Statale di Milano”. I am director of the Molecular and pharmaco-epidemiology unit, supervising postdoctoral fellows, PhD students and master students.

PhD in Public Health (Birmingham, UK), MSc in Biometry (Reading, UK), MSc in Statistics (Bologna Italy, score 110/110 with honors, first class degree).

200 publications in peer reviews journals, about 60 as first or last name. H-index 58 (google scholar), 47 (Web of Science).

Member of the Steering Committee of the EORTC Melanoma group and of the Ethical Committee of Multimedica (Milan). Past President of Euroskin, independent non-profit scientific society, aimed at primary skin cancer.

In 2018, I was senior staff scientist at the division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in IEO. I worked for 20 years providing constant consultation in a wide range of areas including statistical design of experiments and clinical trials, protocol development, analysis of data and interpretation of results. I conducted extensive research in cancer epidemiology, including systematical reviews and meta-analyses, with the goal of better understanding cancer aetiology.

My group work on primary and secondary cancer prevention projects, as well as on prognostics and predictive biomarkers of solid tumors. Our projects are aimed to integrate and assess the importance of epidemiological factors in translational and clinical research. With our researches, we would like to create the basis of personalized prevention and therapeutic programs for cancer that will integrate molecular, genetics and epidemiological risk factors.

http://www.semm.it/content/sara-gandini
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sara_Gandini

Alan Geller

Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health

Senior Lecturer on Social and Behavioral Sciences

TBC

Dr. Rüdiger Greinert

Euroskin

Secretary General

TBC

Dr Brian Køster

Danish Cancer Society

Senior Scientist

• Master of Science, Biochemistry, University of Copenhagen and Ph.D. Health Science, University of Southern Denmark
• Senior Scientist, Danish Sun Safety Campaign, Danish Cancer Society
• 15 Years of experience from Danish Cancer Society, University of Copenhagen and University of Southern Denmark
• Participant in international collaborations, work groups, advisory boards etc.
• Publication areas
  • Skin cancer prevention, campaign evaluation
  • Questionnaire validation, UV - measurements
  • Cost efficiency, cancer projections
  • Experimental behavioural interventions
  • Basic research, vitamin D
  • General cancer prevention (Tobacco control, Alcohol use, Physical Activity & Diet)
• 2 Kids (Rebecca 14 y, Emil 18 y)

Robyn Lucas

Research School of Population Health, College of Health and Medicine The Australian National University

Professor, Environment, Climate and Health & Head, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health

Prof Robyn Lucas is an epidemiologist and specialist public health physician. She is Head of the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. She has recently retired as the lead author for health for the United Nations Environment Programme Environmental Effects Assessment Panel for the Montreal Protocol on Ozone Depletion. Her research focuses on understanding the balance of risks and benefits of sun exposure, and tailoring public health messages for optimal sun exposure. She has had a particular interest in vitamin D, and non-vitamin D benefits of sun exposure for autoimmune disorders such as multiple sclerosis. She works in multi-disciplinary teams with collaborations nationally within Australia and internationally to understand the effects of sun exposure on immune function, public health messaging framed around the UV index and the moderating effects of skin colour, and the public health, research, and clinical implications of inaccurate and imprecise vitamin D assays. As an Australian and New Zealander, she comes from a context of very high skin cancer incidence, so that considerations of public health messages around sun exposure are nested within that context.

Sven Malte John

Dept. Dermatology, Environmental Medicine, Health Theory, UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRUECK

Professor and Chairman

Occupational dermatology, including the implementation and scientific evaluation of systematic interdisciplinary approaches to the prevention of occupational skin diseases with an emphasis on workers’ education strategies (“Osnabrueck model”). SMJ wrote 187 papers (h-index 34) and is lead-editor of major textbooks in the field, incl. Kanerva’s Occupational Dermatology, Springer, 3rd edition. He coordinates the Pan-European awareness raising EADV "Healthy Skin@Work campaign (Slogan: “Your skin. The most important 2m² of your life!”), which is an official partner of EU OSHA “Healthy Workplaces”. He chaired the EU Horizon 2020 COST Action “StanDerm” (TD 1206), which successfully developed evidence based standards on prevention and management of occupational skin diseases, incl. occupational keratinocytic skin cancers (JEADV 31, Supplement 4 [2017]). StanDerm comprised 31 European countries and more than 150 experts in the field of occupational dermatology. He is also member of the ILO “Core Experts Group on the Guidance Notes on Diagnostic and Exposure Criteria for the Occupational Diseases List” and the WHO “InterSun project advisory committee” as well as the lead reviewer to the current ILO/WHO global burden of occupational diseases project (“Joint methodology”, WG 4: Skin Cancer by UV).

Craig Sinclair

Australia Cancer Society

Head of Prevention at the Cancer Council Victoria

Adjunct Associate Professor Craig Sinclair is the Head of Prevention at the Cancer Council Victoria, Australia where he is responsible for the development and delivery of population-wide cancer prevention and screening programs. He is also Director of the World Health Organisation's (WHO) Collaborative Centre for UV Radiation and co-chair of the World Meteorological Organisation’s (WMO) UV and Ozone Scientific Advisory Group. He has expertise in skin cancer, vitamin D and sun protection and population health approaches to reduce cancer risk. He is an author of over 35 peer reviewed publications including the most recent WHO publication on artificial tanning devices: Public Health Interventions to Manage Sunbeds. In 2010, the United States Environment Protection Agency (EPA) awarded Craig with an EPA Montreal Protocol Award for his substantial contribution to human health protection.

Lill Tove Nilsen

Euroskin

Senior Advisor Optical Radiation, Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority

Lill Tove Nilsen is a Senior Optical Radiation Adviser at the Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (DSA) in Norway, where she has worked since 2001. She has her MSc degree (1992) and PhD degree (1996) within physical electronics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. She is now working with non-ionizing radiation in general, with main responsibilities within UV and optical radiation, research regarding health effects, monitoring radiation from sun, sunbeds and occupational sources, as well as engaged in public health and information.

In particular, Lill Tove Nilsen is coordinating DSAs strategic work to reduce incidence and mortality of skin cancer in Norway due to UV exposure from the sun and solariums. In March 2019, under Nilsen’s leadership, DSA published a national UV and skin cancer strategy with goals and proposed measures, formed together with relevant authorities and agencies and in cooperation with actors from stakeholder groups. Nilsen now coordinates the work of relevant authorities and professional communities in the follow-up of the measures under this strategy.

Lill Tove Nilsen was president of Euroskin in the period 2015 to 2017, past president from 2017 to 2019, and was the main organizer of the 8th Euroskin Workshop “From biomarkers to molecular epidemiology – skin cancer prevention by means of behaviour, supportive environments and early detection”, held in Bergen, Norway, in 2016. She is member of national and international scientific communities related to optical radiation, such as Euroskin, ESP and the WHO Global UV Project Advisory Group. She is collaborating with several national and European research institutes, on studies related to UV radiation and prevention of skin cancers, causes, health effects, sun tanning behaviour and cost-benefit studies, as well as related to UV monitoring (sun and sunbeds). She has been supervising several master students and been a member of three doctoral committees.

Emilie van Deventer

WHO

TBC

Dr. Beate Volkmer

Euroskin

Dr. rer. nat. Beate Volkmer obtained her diploma in biology at the University of Darmstadt and moved to the University of Göttingen for her Ph.D. working on repair processes in relation to the induction of chromosomal aberrations by ionizing radiation. Since 1995 she heads the Division of Molecular Cellbiology at the Dermatology Center in Buxtehude, Germany, with the research focus "UV-induced skin cancer development". She is a member of the German Radiation Protection Commission and advises the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety on the protection of the population in dealing with UV radiation. As a member of the Association of Dermatological Prevention (ADP) and the European Society of Skin Cancer Prevention (EUROSKIN), Dr. Volkmer is active in the field of primary and secondary prevention of skin cancer on the national and international level.

Ann Webb

Manchester University

Professor of Atmospheric Radiation

Ann graduated from Reading University with a BSc in Physics and Meteorology, then gained a PhD in Environmental Physics from Nottingham University and, later, a DSc from UMIST. She spent 3 years as a researcher in a medical environment in USA, applying her knowledge of sunlight to understanding its effects on human health. She returned to the UK, Reading University and work with a more atmospheric focus before joining UMIST as a lecturer in Physics, and then moving into the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at University of Manchester. There she is a Professor in the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences and until recently Associate Dean for Graduate Education. Her research work remains at the interface between disciplines with radiation measurement, particularly at UV wavelengths, and (sun)light as a central theme. A topical interest in which she specialises is vitamin D synthesis by the skin after exposure to (solar) UV radiation, while other work explores, for example, the scattering of radiation by ice crystals. The multidisciplinarity of Ann’s work is also apparent in the external positions she holds. In addition to several previous and current roles at the World Meteorological Organisation, she is a Past President of CIE (Commission Internationale de l’Eclairage), and a commissioner of the International Radiation Commission.

Martin Weinstock

Brown University

Professor of Dermatology, Professor of Epidemiology

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