Wolf-Henning Boehncke, MD MA
Professor and Chair, Department of Dermatology
Division of Specialties in Medicine
University of Geneva
Geneva, Switzerland

Wolf-Henning Boehncke earned his M.D. as a fellow of the German Scholarship Foundation in Kiel and Glasgow, and received his postdoctoral training at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda/USA. Following assignments at the University Hospitals in Kiel and Ulm he became Full Professor and Head of the Section of Allergy/Immunology at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main. Since 2012, he is the Chairman of the Dermatology Unit at Geneva University.

Prof. Boehncke is a board member of numerous psoriasis initiatives, including the German psoriasis registry (PsoBest©) and the network to improve psoriasis management (PsoNet©) as well as the German psoriasis patients organization. He is the current president of the Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis (GRAPPA) and an active member of the International Psoriasis Council (IPC).

His research focuses on the pathogenesis of inflammation on which he published landmark papers in the New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Medicine, and Nature, several of these were honoured by distinguished prizes including the Galenus-von-Pergamon prize.