Rudolf Stadler

Biography Prof. Stadler started his medical career at the free university of Berlin under the chairmanship of Prof. C. E. Orfanos. From the beginning he was involved in the transition of dermatology from morphology and local therapies towards functional understanding of skin physiology and introduction of systemic compounds into dermatology, like retinoids and interferons. For these accomplishments he received the Oscar-Gans-Price of the German Society of Dermatology. He was involved as deputy secretary in the organization of the 17th World Congress of Dermatology in Berlin. In 1988 he was appointed deputy chairman of the Department of Dermatology, Klinikum Steglitz at the Free University of Berlin and thereafter moved as chairman to the University Clinic of Dermatology Minden, Ruhr University Bochum. In 2016 he received the German skin cancer prize. His main scientific interest is focussed on the development and advancement of dermatooncology, especially in cutaneous T-cell lymphoma a