Proceeding report of the Second Symposium on Hidradenitis Suppurativa Advances (SHSA) 2017

Eran Shavit (1) , Afsaneh Alavi (1) , Falk G. Bechara (2) , Richard G Bennett (3) , Marc Bourcier (4) , Ricardo Cibotti , Steven Daveluy , John W Frew , Amit Garg , Iltefat Hamzavi , Lauren K Hoffman , Jenny Hsaio , Joslyn Sciacca Kirby , Hadar Lev-Tov , Erin Martinez , Robert Micheletti , Haley Naik , Aude Nassif (5) , Cynthia Nicholson , Angie Parks-Miller , Zarine Patel , Vincent Piguet (1) , Mayur Ramesh , Barry Resnik , Christopher Sayed , Gregory Schultz , Aamir Siddiqui , Jerry Tan (6) , Ximena Wortsman , Michelle A Lowes (7)

1 University of Toronto
2 RUB - Ruhr University Bochum
3 UCLA - University of California [Los Angeles]
4 UdeS - Université de Sherbrooke
5 CMIP - Centre Médical de l'Institut Pasteur
6 UWO - University of Western Ontario
7 Rockefeller University [New York]

The 2nd Annual Symposium on Hidradenitis Suppurativa Advances (SHSA) took place on 03-05 November 2017 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. This symposium was a joint meeting of the Hidradenitis Suppurativa Foundation (HSF Inc.) founded in the USA, and the Canadian Hidradenitis Suppurativa Foundation (CHSF). This was the second annual meeting of the SHSA with experts from different disciplines arriving from North America, Europe and Australia, in a joint aim to discuss most recent in-novations, practical challenges and potential solutions to issues related in the man-agement and care of Hidradenitis Suppurativa patients. The last session involved clinicians, patients and their families in an effort to educate them more about the disease

Keywords: hidradenitis suppurativa; symposium

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Life Sciences [q-bio]; Human health and pathology; Life Sciences [q-bio]; Human health and pathology; Dermatology

Eran Shavit, Afsaneh Alavi, Falk G. Bechara, Richard G Bennett, Marc Bourcier, et al.. Proceeding report of the Second Symposium on Hidradenitis Suppurativa Advances (SHSA) 2017. Experimental Dermatology, 2019, 28 (1), pp.94-103. ⟨10.1111/exd.13849⟩. ⟨pasteur-02547208⟩