Pr Peter Elsner

Professor of Dermatology and Chairman, Department of Dermatology, University Hospital of Jena, Germany

Prof Dr Peter Elsner was trained at the Medical School, Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg (Germany) between 1974 and 1981. After serving as a military physician, he was a resident in dermatology and allergology at the Department of Dermatology of the University of Würzburg. In 1987, he received Board Certification as a specialist for dermatology and completed his habilitation thesis as a lecturer. Between 1988 and 1989 he worked as Visiting Research Dermatologist at the Department of Dermatology, UCSF, San Francisco (USA). From 1991-1996, he was consultant and professor at the Dermatology Department of the University Hospital Zurich (Switzerland).

In 1997 he accepted the position as professor of dermatology at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (Germany). Professor Elsner published more than 600 scientific papers and is the author of more than 20 books. His main research fields of interest include contact dermatitis, epidemiology and toxicology of dermatologic disorders as well as non-invasive measurement methods in dermatology.
He is member of numerous scientific associations, Member of the Board of the German Dermatologic Society (Deutsche Dermatologische Gesellschaft, DDG) and Past Chairman of the Working Group for Occupational and Environmental Dermatology (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Berufs- und Umweltdermatologie, ABD) in the DDG.