Due to the uncertainties induced by the COVID-19 situation where many participants are unable to travel, we have decided to make the 5th Nordic Dermoscopy Course virtual including pre-recorded sessions and quizzes followed by a live full-day webinar on January 15, 2021. Registered participants will be sent more detailed information about the course once we get closer to the date. We hope for your understanding regarding the difficult decision of changing the course to a virtual meeting.

Nordic Course on Laser Dermatology (NDA course) is postponed due to the pandemic. Information on new dates will be given as soon as they are settled. 

NDA Research grant 2020 was open for application until Oct. 30^th, 2020.

Residents in dermatology and venereology and recently approved specialist dermatologists working in Nordic countries were eligible to apply, and research projects investigating dermatological diseases with few funding possibilities and planned Nordic collaboration were considered advantageous.

NDA research committee evaluated the applications according to their clinical and scientific importance and feasibility. The research committee received several applications from Finland, Sweden, and Denmark, and the proposed research projects were found to be in general of high quality and research objectives were considered clinically and scientifically relevant. A few projects included Nordic collaboration.

The following two Nordic applicants and PhD-research projects were selected as grant recipients Dec. 8^th, 2020:

Kristina Viiklepp (Finland): Classical pathway of complement system in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma

Philip Curman (Sweden): Development of novel treatments for a rare severe skin condition: Darier disease.

Both grant receivers received 30,000 SEK, and will present an update and preliminary results of their research projects to the NDA board for publication on the NDA website and in Forum for Nordic Dermato-Venereology within one year.

NDA board and NDA research committee congratulates the grant receivers and wishes all the applicants success with their research projects!

Due to the current travel and meeting restrictions, course organizers Robert Gniadecki, Gregor Jemec and John Paoli have been forced to postpone the 7th Nordic Course on Skin Surgery until it is viable to hold the meeting live in Copenhagen again as in past years. For more info, please visit:  http://nordicdermatologycourses.org/nordic-course-on-skin-surgery/

Due to the uncertainties induced by the COVID-19 situation where many participants are unable to travel, we have decided to make the 5th Nordic Dermoscopy Course virtual including pre-recorded sessions and quizzes followed by a live full-day webinar on January 15, 2021. Registered participants will be sent more detailed information about the course once we get closer to the date. We hope for your understanding regarding the difficult decision of changing the course to a virtual meeting.

Nordic Dermatology Association (NDA) has now opened the application process for a NDA Research Grant of 60,000 SEK. Read more here

The 3rd Nordic course in Virtual Dermatopathology is intended for trainees and specialists in dermatology, pathology and dermatopathology. The focus is on clinical-pathologic correlation using virtual (digital) slides and the course is more advanced than the basic dermatopathology courses in Nordic dermatology residencies. 

Scientific faculty:
Ellen Mooney, MD, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland. (Course Director)
Werner Kempf, Kempf und Pfalz, Histological Diagnostics, Zürich & Dept. of Dermatol., Univ. of Zürich.
Jacqueline M. Junkins-Hopkins, MD, Geisinger Medical Clinic, Danville, PA USA.
Tammie Ferringer, MD, Director of Dermatopathology, Geisinger Medical Clinic, Danville, PA USA.

Nordic dermatology is alive and well
The covid-19 pandemic has changed the way we practice and meet. Nearly all recent scientific and administrative meetings in the Nordic national societies of dermatology and venereology have been held digitally on Zoom or similar web-based platforms. We have all learned how to adapt.

The board of the Nordic Dermatology Association was scheduled to meet at Kastrup on March 27, but that meeting had to be cancelled.  Instead, the NDA board held a digital meeting on Zoom on September 23 discussing several items concerning Nordic cooperation in our specialty.

The course has been moved online due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

https://nordicdermatology.com/nivdp-welcome

The course is intended for trainees and specialists in dermatology, pathology and dermatopathology. The focus is on clinical-pathologic correlation using virtual (digital) slides and the course is more advanced than the basic dermatopathology courses in Nordic dermatology residencies. 

Participants will be introduced to the digital software, followed by informative lectures by the faculty on various aspects of dermatopathology.

In the self-assessment exam, participants will get first-hand experience using their laptops to access the software, which contains cases with clinical information and photographs, as well as digital slides. This will be followed by case discussions by the speakers.

Further information on the Programme, Venue and Registration is available here.

We extend a warm welcome to you to join us in Reykjavik and hope to see you there.

https://nordicdermatology.com/nivdp-welcome

https://nordicdermatology.com/icelandic-society-dermato-venereology/

http://nordicdermatologycourses.org/nordic-course-on-skin-surgery/

http://nordicdermatologycourses.org/nordic-dermoscopy-course

Now the NDA course proposals are approved by all members of the NDA Education Committee. Please find them here: https://nordicdermatology.com/nda-guidelines-course-proposals/. Also a form for proposal for new NDA courses has been added to the website under the menu “Nordic Courses”.