Alicia Beatriz Cannavó

Professor Alicia Cannavo completed her post-doctoral studies at the Université Catholique de Louvain with Professor An Goossens) 1990 -1992; San Carlos Hospital, Complutense School of Medicine with Professor Luis Conde Salazar-Gomez in 1992, Madrid, Spain and 12 de Octubre Hospital with Professor Victoria Merinoin 1992 -1993, Madrid Spain. She also received a grant from the Argentinian Society of Dermatology to attend 49th Annual Meeting of American Academy of Dermatology 1990, Atlanta, USA.

She has been on numerous scientific committees including the World Congress of Dermatology, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2007) and the 10th Congress of European Society of Contact Dermatitis (ESCD), Malmo, Sweden (2010).

She was Chair of Cutaneous Allergy and Occupational Dermatology Group of Ibero Latinoamerican College of Dermatology (CILAD) (2012-2016) and Board of Executive Committee of Argentinian Society of Dermatology (2017-2019). She organised the International Contact Dermatitis Congress in association with the ICDRG in Rosario, Argentina in 2018.

Professor Cannavo is a co-author of ESCD Guidelines of Patch Testing (2015), the National Guidelines of Urticaria, Atopic Dermatitis (2020), and Contact Dermatitis and Occupational Dermatitis (2015).

She coordinates studies in contact dermatitis, occupational dermatology, chronic urticaria and patch tests about 200 patients/year. She collaborates in multicentre trials
Including within the European Society of Contact Dermatitis (ESCD), ICDRG and COST action – Standerm on the Prevention of Occupational Skin Diseases.

She is the author of 11 book chapters and more than 20 papers, mostly on contact dermatitis and occupational dermatoses and has performed more than 250 invited lectures.

Her current positions include Professor and Chair of Contact Dermatitis and Occupational & Environmental Dermatology Unit, Dermatology Department. Clinicas Hospital “José de San Martín”, Buenos Aires School of Medicine, Argentina. She is also
General Secretary of Argentinian Society of Dermatology ,Co-Chair of Cutaneous Allergy and Occupational Dermatology Group. Ibero Latinoamerican College of Dermatology (CILAD). In addition she is Member of Editorial Board of Dermatologia Argentina and Archivos Argentinos de Dermatología and Actualizaciones Terapeuticas Argentinas (Co-Editor).