Soyer H. Peter, MD, FACD

Professor of Dermatology at the University of Queensland, in Brisbane/Australia. He has come to Queensland from the Medical University of Graz, in Austria, where he was Professor of Dermatology and Director of the Research Unit for Teledermatology.

Special research areas are clinical dermatology, dermatopathology and dermato-oncology. His main teaching interest is dermoscopy of pigmented skin lesions with special emphasis on the clinico-pathologic correlation.

Dr. Soyer has been working more than 20 years in this field and has published numerous articles and a few books on dermoscopy. In 2000 he coordinated the International Consensus Net Meeting on Dermoscopy.

Dr. Soyer is president of the International Dermoscopy Society ( http://www.dermoscopy-ids.org/ ) and past president of the International Society of Teledermatology (http://www.teledermatology-society.org/).