{"title":"The photobiology legacy of Nikiforos Kollias, PhD—1941‐2016","authors":"H. Lui","doi":"10.1111/phpp.12517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/phpp.12517","url":null,"abstract":"This issue of Photodermatology, Photoimmunology, and Photomedicine commemorates the contributions and legacy of Dr. Nikiforos Kollias, an outstanding skin biophysicist affectionately known as \"Nik\" to those who worked and trained with and under him. After Nik earned his PhD studying low temperature thermal transport properties of metals, he launched a scientific career that encompassed teaching and research in Kuwait and the United States, where he became fascinated with light and its interactions with the skin.","PeriodicalId":20060,"journal":{"name":"Photodermatology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75682325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Phototherapy achieves significant cost savings by the delay of drug‐based treatment in psoriasis","authors":"J. Foerster, R. Dawe","doi":"10.1111/phpp.12511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/phpp.12511","url":null,"abstract":"Although used for decades in psoriasis, access to phototherapy is becoming increasingly restricted. Besides patient inconvenience, this is in large part to do with a perception of “high cost.” We previously reported a comprehensive analysis of direct and indirect phototherapy treatment cost. However, no robust data exist on the actual savings associated with providing phototherapy in the treatment pathway.","PeriodicalId":20060,"journal":{"name":"Photodermatology","volume":"1 1","pages":"90 - 96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83688775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}