The Program Director is Emilios Lallas, Professor of Dermatology-Venereology at the School of Medicine of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is specialized and is mainly involved in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of skin cancer and the management and monitoring of dermato-oncological patients.
He is Professor of Dermatology at the First University Dermatology Department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, which is housed at the Hospital of Venereological and Skin Diseases of Thessaloniki.
He is Scientific Director of the Center for Melanoma and Other Skin Cancers of Northern Greece, which is housed at the Hospital of Venereological and Skin Diseases of Thessaloniki.
He is the author of 467 original scientific papers published in international journals, which are available in the Pubmed Central electronic database (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=lallas+a). To date, there are more than 18000 references by other researchers to his research work (https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=mmRpGIkAAAAJ&hl=en).
He has introduced and documented innovative diagnostic methods in dermatoscopy for the identification of melanoma, basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma and inflammatory skin diseases.
He is the editor of 9 books by international publishing houses. He is also the author of many chapters on Dermatoscopy in books by international publishing houses and other publishers.
He participates as a principal investigator in European research programs in the field of diagnosis of melanoma and other skin tumors. He also participates in clinical trials of drugs for the treatment of metastatic melanoma, basal cell carcinoma and actinic hyperkeratosis.
For the year 2017 he has been ranked in the top 1% of peer reviewers worldwide. (https://www.dropbox.com/s/f2yi77d6fumdccn/Peer%20Review%202017%20Award.pdf?dl=0).
He participates in teaching the course of Dermatology to Medical students at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in the field of skin tumors.
He is the Director of the Postgraduate Program of Studies “Dermatoscopy” of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
He is the Scientific Director of the online Professional Certificate of Dermatoscopy program with students from countries on all continents.
He is a co-founder and one of the two instructors of the international training seminar “Dermatoscopy Excellence” (http://www.dermoscopyexcellence.org).
He participates as a teacher in the postgraduate programs of the Universities of Graz, Austria and Napoli, Italy in the subject of dermatoscopy.
He is a member of the International Doctoral Dissertation Supervision Committee of the University of Modena, Italy.
He has supervised the training of many young dermatologists from various countries in the diagnosis and management of skin tumors.
He is an invited speaker at most international, American, European and national dermatology conferences about diagnosis/treatment of skin tumors and an invited instructor at many local seminars on dermatoscopy in various countries.
He is President of the International Dermatoscopy Society (http://dermoscopy-ids.org).
He is a member of the Board of the European Association of Dermato-Oncology.
He is a founding member of the Hellenic Society of Dermatoscopy (http://www.hds-dermoscopy.gr).
