
Meeting
ISDT Annual Meeting
12th Tropical Dermatology Annual Meeting under the theme “Global Dermatology and One Health”.

- Date
- 6 September 2025
- Venue
- Rostock
Programme
Friday, 5 September 2025
- 19:00
- Networking meeting with dinner Borwin Hafenrestaurant, Rostock; registration required
Saturday, 6 September 2025
- 08:30 – 08:45
- Welcome coffee and trade exhibition
- 08:45 – 09:00
- Welcome and introduction Steffen Emmert, Rüdiger Panzer
- 09:00 – 10:10
- Opening lectures XP, PD inhibitors and news; the end of USAID in Africa; counterfeit medicines
- 10:10 – 10:40
- Coffee break
- 10:40 – 12:00
- Interdisciplinary guest lectures Vaccinations, climate change from the perspective of mosquitoes, plasma medicine, toxins of poison dart frogs
- 12:00 – 13:00
- Infectiology Leishmaniasis, dengue and other arboviroses, gonorrhoea 2025
- 13:00 – 13:30
- Announcements from the board
- 13:30 – 14:30
- Lunch snack and trade exhibition
- 14:30 – 15:45
- Reports from around the world Uganda, Cambodia, Moshi, Venezuela and chronic parasitoses
- 15:45 – 16:15
- Coffee break
- 16:15 – 17:00
- Closing lectures Senior Expert Service, skin tumours in albinism in Namibia, multidrug-resistant Trichophyton indotineae
- 17:00 – 18:00
- Closing remarks
Sunday, 7 September 2025
- all day
- Advanced seminar cancelled
About the meeting
The 12th Tropical Dermatology Annual Meeting of the ISDT was held under the main theme “Global Dermatology and One Health”. The Rostock programme combined travel and tropical dermatology with interdisciplinary contributions from tropical medicine, zoology, the Friedrich-Löffler-Institut and the Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology.
Key facts
- Date: 6 September 2025; networking meeting on 5 September
- Venue: Hörsaal MED of the Universitätsmedizin Rostock, Schillingallee 70, 18057 Rostock
- Organiser: Department and Outpatient Clinic for Dermatology and Venereology of the Universitätsmedizin Rostock
- Organisation: OA Dr. med. Rüdiger Panzer
- Certification: 8 credit points of the Ärztekammer Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Programme highlights
Among other topics, the programme covered new developments in xeroderma pigmentosum, the consequences of the end of USAID in Africa, counterfeit medicines, vaccinations relevant to dermatology and travel medicine, climate change and mosquitoes, plasma medicine, leishmaniasis, dengue and arboviroses, gonorrhoea 2025 as well as reports from Uganda, Cambodia, Moshi, Venezuela and Namibia.
Scientific leadership
- Prof. Dr. med. Steffen Emmert (Universitätsmedizin Rostock)
Dr. med. Rüdiger Panzer (Universitätsmedizin Rostock)
Prof. Dr. med. Esther von Stebut (Uniklinik Köln)