2024-05-22

WSHD Madagascar | XIXth International Congress of Dermatology

SOMADER (Société Malgache de Dermatologie)

Accreditation

WSHD Madagascar | XIXth International Congress of Dermatology

Madagascar

2024-05-22

Organized by SOMADER (Société Malgache de Dermatologie)

2024-05-22

SOMADER (Société Malgache de Dermatologie)

Accreditation

INTRODUCTION

10:30 - 10:35

Introduction to ILDS

HENRY W. LIM is the former Clarence S. Livingood chair and chairman of the Department of Dermatology (1997-2017), Henry Ford Health, Detroit, Michigan, USA. Dr. Lim has served as president of the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD), American Board of Dermatology, and International Union of Photobiology. In 2023, he was elected as president of the International League of Dermatological Societies. He has received 15 presidential citations from the AAD, and in 2020, he was awarded an Honorary Membership of the AAD. Dr. Lim is honorary member of the following international dermatological societies: Austria, France, the Philippines, China, the Baltics, Spain, Taiwan, Peru and CILAD. He has published more than 570 articles and edited 11 textbooks, and is recognized as a leading international expert on photodermatology

10:35 - 10:45

Artificial intelligence in support of a WHO educational tool for primary health care workers dealing with skin neglected tropical diseases and common skin conditions

Dr. José-Antonio Ruiz-Postigo qualified from the Medical School of Autonomous University of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. He is a post-graduate holder in Tropical Medicine and International Health, and he further pursued his interest in research by completing his PhD at the University of Barcelona. His thesis was on the epidemiology and control of human African trypanosomiasis in the municipality of Kissama, Angola. He has been working on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) for 28 years, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa and the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region. Since 2013, he is based at WHO headquarters where he led the World Leishmaniasis Control Programme for the period 2016-2019. In 2020 he joined the newly created team on Skin Neglected Tropical Diseases at WHO headquarters. Since then, his main work has been related to the creation of the WHO mobile app on Skin NTDs, which includes a section on artificial intelligence, alongside the establishment of a channel for online courses at OpenWHO and the implementation of a global web-based surveillance at WHO for data collection, analysis and dissemination on leishmaniasis and skin NTDs.

10:45 - 11:00

Effectiveness and financial savings of integrating mass drug administration for Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) into an existing Polio campaign in Madagascar

I am a WHO Country Representative in Mauritius and Madagascar respectively since October 2016 to April 2022 and May 2022 up to date. Before that, I worked as regional adviser for health system and financing (2007 to 2011) and Regional Office for Africa (May 2011 to September 2016). Before joining WHO, I have been working as a Dean of School of Public Health, National University of Rwanda from 2004 to 2007; District medical office (DMO) and Regional medical officer (RMO) in the Ministry of Health, Kigali, Rwanda for more than 10 years. I published and produced several papers and technical manuals and tools in national and international journals. In term of my educational background, I am a Medical Doctor; I have a master’s in public health; an Advanced degree in Health planning and Health Policies; a PhD and HDR in Medical Sciences specialized in Health Policies and Health Economics. I am knowledgeable and experienced in diplomacies by representing WHO in meeting and function organized by the government of Mauritius and Madagascar, collaboration with other UN agencies, civil society including NGOs, I am also appointed as Designated Official a.i. of UNCT in Mauritius and Madagascar since 2016 which gives me an experience of coordinating UN agencies and Development Partners (Bilateral and multilaterals) and cross cutting issues related to the mandate of UN agencies. In term of technical support, In my position as Country Representative, I strongly supported Mauritius and Madagascar for building and sustaining resilient health systems by development of evidence-based policies, strategies and plans, tackling communicable and noncommunicable diseases, preparedness and responses of outbreaks and naturals catastrophe, integration of interventions and partnerships, management of the office among others.

11:00 - 11:13

NTDs in Neglected people

Aldo Morrone is Scientific Director of the San Gallicano Dermatological Institute (IRCCS), a hospital founded in Rome (Italy) in the 1725 by the Pope Benedictus XIII. Expert in Tropical Dermatology and poverty-related diseases, in the last 40 years he focused his attention on the health of migrants, asylum seekers, refugees and homeless people, developing transcultural medicine and sensitizing institutions on the Health of the groups at risk of social exclusion. He was General Director of San Camillo Forlanini General Hospital in Rome and the Founder and first General Director of National Institute Migration and Poverty (NIMP), a public scientific Institute for research on Migration’s Diseases. Author of over 750 scientific articles in national and international peer-reviewed journals and 60 books. Latest books published: Dermatology of Human Mobile Population, MNL Ed., 2004; Health System and Skin Diseases: the Case of Ethiopia, Di punto in bianco Ed., 2007; Case Management Algorithms & Atlas for Lebanon, Armadilla, 2015; La speranza ferita: storia delle mutilazioni genitali femminili, Franco Angeli, 2017; Skin Disorseders in Migrants, Springer, 2020; Covid-19 tra mito e realtà. Luci e ombre della pandemia che ha travolto il pianeta, Armando, 2021; Atlante di Dermatologia Tropicale (Minerva Medica), in press. He coordinated and performed several clinical and scientific missions in Lebanon, Africa, Middle East, India, Latin America and South-Eastern Asia. From 2013 to 2017 he was Vice President of the International Society of Dermatology (ISD). He is member of Community Dermatology Committee, as well as of numerous International Scientific Societies. As well as Honorary President of the International Institute of Social Medical Anthropological Sciences (I.I.S.M.A.S) and Scientific Director of the annual International Workshop “Culture, Health and Migration” held at the National Council for Research in Rome, he is President of the Annual International Congresses on Dermatology and Global Health in Ethiopia, in collaboration with Tigray Ministry of Health. In the 2017 he was awarded the Castellani-Reiss Medal, the highest honor of the ISD, given for lifetime achievement in International Dermatology, Migration and Community Dermatology. Rome, lì 17.02.2022

11:13 - 11:32

Bridging gaps in Dermatology training in Africa and GLODERM

Dr. Esther Freeman M.D. Ph.D. is a dermatologist and epidemiologist, specializing in global health dermatology. She has worked to improve healthcare, especially those affectedby HIV, in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and southeast Asia since 2003. She has collaborated with the World Health Organization since 2011, to establish guidelines for the treatment of HIV-associated skin conditions in the developing world. She has won the American Academy of Dermatology’s Member Making a Difference Award, as well as the most highly cited author in the area of epidemiology in AIDS in 2009. Her current work centers around Kaposi’s sarcoma, a potentially deadly tumor associated with HIV that first appears on the skin. Her work has been supported by the National Institute of Health (NIH), the American Skin Association, the Harvard Center for AIDS Research, and the Medical Dermatology Society.

11:32 - 11:39

The Role of Phototherapy in 2024 and Beyond

11:39 - 11:56

Skin NTDs in Madagascar, where we are?

Docteur F RAPELANORO RABENJA Professeur Titulaire en Dermatologie-Allergologie- MST Ancien Chef de Clinique Assistant en Mdecine Interne Et Maladies Tropicales / DESS en Gestion de Projets Universit de Bordeaux II / Universit dAntananarivo

12:00 - 12:15

DISCUSSIONS

CHROMOBLASTOMYCOSIS, SPOROTRICHOSIS AND MYCETOMA

Prof. Dallas S, Prof. QUeiroz-Telles F, Prof. Santos DW, Prof. Cornet M, Prof. Ramarozatovo LS, Prof. Mokni M

14:30 - 14:45

Addressing Fungal neglected tropical diseases through global partnerships

Dallas Smith is an epidemiologist with the Mycotic Diseases Branch at the U.S. CDC. His main research interests include fungal neglected tropical diseases, dimorphic fungal diseases, and antifungal stewardship.

14:45 - 15:00

Sporotrichosis in Brazil

Infectious Diseases Specialist, Full Professor of Medicine, Department of Public Health. Federal University of Parana, Brazil

15:00 - 15:15

Fungal neglected tropical diseases (NTDs)

Infectious Disease Specialist Master and PhD from the Federal University of São Paulo Currently works at the Presidente Dutra University Hospital of the Federal University of Maranhão and Researcher at IDOR (the D'Or Institute for Research and Education)

15:15 - 15:51

Difficultés de prise en charge de cas difficiles de chromomycose à Madagascar

RAMAROZATOVO Lala Soavina MD

15:51 - 16:04

Utilisation de la spectrométrie de masse VITEK MS PRIME pour l'identification en routine des agents responsables de la sporotrichose à partir de cultures de biopsie cutanée

Depuis 2019, Tahinamandranto Rasamoelina est Responsable Scientifique du Centre d’Infectiologie Charles Mérieux de la Faculté de Médecine de l’Université d’Antananarivo, Madagascar. Il est diplômé de Doctorat en Biotechnologie, Instrumentation, Signal et Imagerie pour la Biologie, la Médecine et l’Environnement préparé au sein de la communauté Université Grenoble Alpes. Il a depuis 10 ans travaillé sur les mycoses profondes (Chromoblastomycose, Sporotrichose et mycétome) avec les dermatologues du CHU de Befelatanana et l’équipe mycologue et parasitologue du laboratoire TIMC de l’Université Grenoble Alpes. Depuis 2020, il est la personne focale sur le diagnostic de la lèpre et la détection des résistances aux antilépreux. Il est parmi les co investigateurs principaux sur sites aux études collaboratives sur la bilharziose à Madagascar réalisées avec les partenaires nationaux et internationaux

16:05 - 16:12

Mycetoma in North Africa

Dr Mourad MOKNI is professor of dermatology in the faculty of medicine of Tunis, University al Manar2 and head of the dermatology departement of la Rabta Hospital in Tunis. He is also head of the Research Laboratory LR18SP01 Public Health and infections. He is member of many national and international dermatological societies and medical commitees. Reviewer of more than 10 indexed dermatological journals. He is associate editor of 3 dermatologic journals.He is author of more than 270 scientific articles in indexed journals. He also wrote multiple chapters of Texbooks and Medical encyclopedies. He is Editor of the Texbook “Dermatologie infectieuse’ Elsevier-Masson in 2014. He is member of the Dermatology TAG group for the WHO International Classification od Diseases ICD 11. He is consultant for WHO for cutaneous leishmaniasis. He participate in some field missions, co-authored the WHO guidelines ofmanagement of leishmaniasis EMRO and EURO regions and collaborate in international courses for Neglected Tropical diseases

16:12 - 16:12

DISCUSSIONS - Session 2

RAMAROZATOVO Lala Soavina MD

ATOPIC DERMATITIS

16:30 - 16:38

GADA: Mapping the global burden of AD

Carsten Flohr studied at Cambridge and Oxford Universities and then trained in both paediatrics and dermatology. He was the first UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinician Scientist in Dermatology (2009-2014) and also held a Career Development Fellowship from the NIHR (2014-2020). Carsten Flohr is Chair in Dermatology and Population Health Sciences at King’s College London and Honorary Consultant in Dermatology as well as Research & Development Lead at St John’s Institute of Dermatology, Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK. Professor Flohr has a particular interest in population-based dermatology research and clinical trials with a focus on atopic eczema. For instance, he is Chief Investigator of the NIHR-funded TREatment of severe eczema in children Trial (TREAT), which compares ciclosporine with methotrexate in children with recalcitrant atopic eczema. He is also Chief Investigator of the UK-Irish Atopic Eczema Systemic Therapy Register (A-STAR) and the EU Horizon 2020 Joint Program Initiative-funded Trans-Foods and the Mind & Skin consortia. The Flohr Group also investigates host-skin and gut microbiome interactions in inflammatory skin disease. In addition, Professor Flohr leads the International League of Dermatological Societies (ILDS) Global Atopic Dermatitis Atlas project. Professor Flohr is a Founding Director of the International Eczema Council and Past President of the British Society of Paediatric and Adolescent Dermatology. He is also Founding Editor of the Evidence-Based Dermatology Section of the British Journal of Dermatology and the Clinical Trials Editor of the F1000 Atopic Dermatitis Section.

16:38 - 16:56

Atopic Dermatititis: A Global Health Perspective

Alain Taïeb is professor emeritus of Dermatology at Bordeaux University. He established theNational Reference Centre for Rare Skin Disorders in 2005. He was until 2019 Director of INSERM 1035 research lab “Biotherapy of genetic diseases, inflammatory disorders and cancer” (BMGIC). He set up the European Task Force on Atopic Dermatitis in 1990, and the Vitiligo European Task Force in 2003, which are the current official ad hoc tasks forces of the EADV. He has authored more than 700 articles in peer-reviewed journals and more than 60 chapters in multiauthored books. In addition, he published “History of Atopic Dermatitis” with Dr Wallach and Tilles, in 2004, and two textbooks “Neonatal Dermatology” with Drs Enjolras, Wallach and Vabres (2009) and “Vitiligo” with Dr Picardo (2010- second edition 2019). His major topics of interest are pediatric dermatology, genodermatoses, atopic dermatitis, vitiligo and pigment cell disorders. He has received several awards and distinctions from the Society for Pediatric Dermatology, the European Society of Pediatric Dermatology, the International League of Dermatological Societies, the American Skin Association, and the European Society for Pigment Cell Research. H factor 68 (WoS). Dr Taïeb is currently President of the International Society of Atopic Dermatitis (ISAD).

16:56 - 17:14

Pathophysiology + Management of Pruritus in Atopic Dermatitis

Prof. Martin studied Medicine and Human Biology in Germany where he received his MD and PhD from University Marburg. He received his dermatology training at University in Muenster and Univ. California San Francisco. Professor Martin Steinhoff is now Chairman at the Dept. of Dermatology and Director of the Translational Research Institute as well as Residency Program Director at Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar. He is Full-Professor at Weill-Cornell Universities in New York and Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa University and Qatar University. Prof. Steinhoff’s main interest is neuroimmunology where his group described various new mechanisms like the first histamine-independent itch pathway, published in Nature Medicine, and described the first cytokine receptor on human sensory nerves which has led to development of new medications. Prof. Martin published around 300 peer-reviewed articles (H-index: 88), over 40 book chapters, and holds numerous patents. His research has been funded with >60 Mio Euro so far. His group received 2023 the PPM award to study precision medicine based pathways and new treatments for atopic dermatitis. Finally, Prof. Martin was also PI on various clinical trials and received several prestigious international research-awards, and is honorary member of several Societies for Dermatology.

17:14 - 17:24

Dermatite Atopique au Cameroun : Etats des lieux et perspectives

Dermatologue – Vénérologue – Allergologue Professeur Titulaire Agrégé (CAMES) ; Enseignant à la Faculté de Médecine et des Sciences Biomédicales (FMSB), Université De Yaoundé I (UYI), CAMEROUN Responsable du DES de Dermatologie-Vénérologie à la FMSB/UYI Chef de Service de Dermatologie de l’Hôpital Central de Yaoundé Auteur d’une centaine de publications dont un grand nombre dans des revues indexées ; Une soixantaine de communications orales et affichées dans des congrès nationaux et internationaux ; Trois grands centres d’intérêts : Les dermatoses immuno-allergiques Les dermatoses infectieuses y compris les maladies tropicales négligées La qualité de vie en dermatologie Membre de plusieurs sociétés savantes Vice-Président de la Société des Dermatologues d’Afrique Francophone (SODAF) Président de la Société Camerounaise de Dermatologie (SACADERM)

17:35 - 17:46

Sensitization patterns to inhalative allergens in AD patients: Madagascar and beyond

Danielle Fehr MD, PhD

17:46 - 17:54

Challenge sur la recherche sur la dermatite atopique à Madagascar.

Dermatologist-Internist, graduate of Faculty of Medecine Antananarivo and the University of Franche-Comté ● Head of clinic in Dermatology, Faculty of Medecine, Antananarivo (since 2016) ● Member of ADF (Association des Dermatologistes Francophones), International Society of Atopic Dermatitis (ISAD), European Academy of Dermatology-Venereology (EADV), Society for AIDS in Africa (SAA), Société Malgache de Dermatologie (SOMADER). ● Author of over 55 scientific papers (visible on www.researchegate.net / ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0003-2606-3539)

17:55 - 18:10

Dermatite atopique vu au service de Dermatologie du CHU Mahavoky Atsimo, Mahajanga

Naina Harinjara Razanakoto MD

18:10 - 18:30

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