Dra. Cristina Schepers Gassner

 Professional experience

• More than 30 years of experience
• Dermatologist at Clínica Planas de Barcelona (2001 - present)
• Internship as a Specialist in Dermatology at the DAP Nou Barris de Barcelona (1999 - 2002)
• Professional activity in polyclinic centers of Barcelona (1997 - 2001)
• Principal investigator in the project "Dendritic cells in autoimmune and inflammatory skin diseases", in the Department of Dermatology of the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona (1997 - 1999)
• Internship as an optional specialist in Dermatology, at the CAP Sant Andreu in Barcelona (1997)
• Contract Dermatologist collaborator in the Department of Dermatology Hospital Clinic of Barcelona. Section: dermatological surgery (1997)
• Resident MIR in the specialty of Medical-Surgical Dermatology and Venereology in the Department of Dermatology of the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona (1993 - 1996)

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 Sub-specialties

• Medical-surgical dermatology and Venereology. Expert in treatments for acne, skin cancer, skin spots, peeling and photodynamic therapy.

 Teaching posts

• More than 18 courses, seminars, lectures and congresses given

 Education

• Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the Central University of Barcelona (1986 - 1992)
• Degree in Medicine and Surgery (1992)
• Licentiate Examination: Outstanding and Extraordinary Degree Award (1992)
• Opposition MIR. Order Number: 71. Place: Medical-Surgical Dermatology and Venereology. Place: Hospital Clínic de Barcelona (1992)
• MIR Training in Internal Medicine. Including rotation in the section on systemic diseases (1993)
• MIR training with guards in the Emergency Medicine Service of the Clinical and Provincial Hospital of Barcelona (1993 - 1995)
• MIR training in Dermatological Surgery: biopsies, simple exeresis and direct sutures (1993)
• MIR training in the dermatology room. Assistance to dermatological patients in a hospitalization regime for the diagnosis and treatment of bullous, inflammatory diseases and polychemotherapy regimens for patients affected by malignant melanoma and cutaneous linformas (1994)
• MIR Training in the Dermatology Dispensary: ​​assistance of dermatological patients in ambulatory regime, including patients affected by autoimmune diseases, porphyrias and sexually transmitted diseases (1995)
• MIR Training in Advanced Dermatological Surgery: performing dermatological surgery techniques (grafts, flaps), cryosurgery, surgical interventions with general anesthesia, including ganglionic emptying, ocular enucleations, pharyngostomas, reconstructions of nose, lip and ear, microtrepanation. Mohs controlled microsurgery technique (1997)
• Training in Dermatopathology in the United States as a service commission approved by the Teaching Commission of the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona (1997)
• Stay as a Service Commission at the Institute for Dermatopathology at the Jefferson Medical Center in Philadelphia. Study with Dr. Ackerman. 250 daily biopsies, including benign and malignant inflammatory and malignant pathology (with special interest in melanocytic lesions). Familiarization with the immunohistochemical techniques used in Dermatopathology. Participation in sessions and research projects of the Department of Dermatology of the Jefferson Medical Center (1996)
• Doctorate courses at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Barcelona. 33 credits in Dermatological Morphophysiology (1994 - 1996)
• Participation in the research project on the study of the complement attack complex in skin lesions of Dermatomyositis. This project is part of the Immunodermatology research line of the Department of Dermatology of the Hospital Clínic and is supported by the FISss Grant (1995 - 1997)
• Inscription in the project of doctoral thesis, in the registry of the Faculty of Medicine: "Dendritic cells in Dermatomyositis: Study in skin, muscle and photoinduced skin lesions", in the University of Barcelona (1997)
• Principal investigator in the project "Dendritic cells in autoimmune and inflammatory skin diseases", in the Department of Dermatology of the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona (1997 - 1999)
• Research Sufficiency - Faculty of Medicine of the University of Barcelona (1998)
• Reading of the doctoral thesis with obtaining the degree of Doctor Cum Laude in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Barcelona (2001)
• Assistance to more than 18 international specialized training courses
• Assistance to more than 8 national continuing education courses

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 Publications and conferences

• He has written dozens of articles on a national and international level individually and collaborating with other prestigious dermatologists
• More than 18 courses, seminars, lectures and congresses given
• Assistance to more than 18 international congresses of the specialty
• Assistance to more than 24 national specialty congresses
• Author of more than 27 specialty scientific articles

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 Prizes and awards

• Extraordinary Degree Award - Faculty of Medicine, Central University of Barcelona (1992)
• End of Residence Award with the number 1 and Emili Letang Award granted by the Hospital Clínic i Provincial de Barcelona for the development of the doctoral thesis project (1996)
• Participation in the research project on the study of the complement attack complex in skin lesions of Dermatomyositis. This project is part of the Immunodermatology research line of the Department of Dermatology of the Hospital Clínic and is supported by the FISss Grant (1995 - 1997)
• Scholarship awarded by the Cosmetic and Therapeutic Working Group of the Spanish Academy of Dermatology and Venereology for attendance at the Meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology of San Francisco (1996)
• Award of the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics of the Universitaets Frauenklinik Marburg of Germany (1988)
• Award from the Department of Internal Medicine - Endocrinology of the University Hospital of Neuperlach, Munich, Germany (1989)
• Award from the Department of Gastroenterology of the Michigan State University, College of Osteophatic Medicine, in the United States (1990)
• Primary Care Award ("Primary Health Care Project"), at Sint Radbout University Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (1991)
• Award of the Department of Endocrinology-Andrology of the Free University Hospital, Amsterdam, Holland (1991)

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 Professional membership

• Member of the Joventuts Mèdiques de Catalunya i Balears. President international exchanges section (1987 - 1990)
• Member of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands
• Member of the Catalan Academy of Dermatology
• Member of the Spanish Academy of Dermatology and Venereology
• Member of the Spanish Group of Dermatology and Psychiatry
• Member of the Spanish Group of Surgery and Cutaneous Oncology

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