19th Congress of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology

The 19th edition of the Congress of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden, from 6 to 10 October 2010. Prof. Aldo Morrone, NIHMP Director General, and Dr. Roberta Calcaterra, dermatologist at the NIHMP will participate in the Congress on 9 October speaking about: “Skin and poverty: 12-years experience with homeless people”; “Podoconiosis: An unusual form of elephantiasis”; “What has been learned in Mekele Ethiopia”.

The Institute will also present the following scientific posters:

PAEDIATRIC Dermatology

Skin diseases in Ethiopian children and adolescents: A retrospective study carried out in Tigray Region
A. Morrone, M.C. Paino, F. Dassoni, V. Padovese, G. Franco, E. Maiani, R. Calcaterra, R. Marrone (Rome, Italy) 
Skin diseases in immigrant children in Italy
A. Morrone, R. Calcaterra, E. Maiani, R. Fazio, M. Valenzano, G. Franco (Rome, Italy)

TROPICAL Dermatology

Irregular migration in the Mediterranean Sea and skin infectious diseases
A. Morrone, T. D’Arca, M. Di Stefano, M.S. Diku, C. Germelli, D. Maggio, E. Maiani, R. Marrone, V. Padovese, C. Pajno, H. Rodriguez, M.C. Segneri, G. Troia (Rome, Italy)
Scabies: Our experience in Tigray (Ethiopia)
A. Morrone, F. Dassoni, V. Padovese, G. Franco, M.C. Pajno, R. Marrone, R. Calcaterra (Rome, Italy)