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Derk Pieter Bruynzeel Thomas Rustemeyer Derk Pieter Bruynzeel (1943) was appointed Professor in Environmental and Occupational Dermatology in 1992, confirming his important contribution to patient care and research in this field. After Bruynzeel’s retirement in 2008, Thomas Rustemeyer (1967), who had joined the staff in 2001, became the new head of the dermato-allergology unit. In 2014 he was appointed as professor of dermato-allergology and occupational dermatology at VUmc. In 2000 Willemze left the department to take on the new chair of dermatology at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). Naturally, Willemze also moved his successful research line on cutaneous lymphomas to Leiden. In Amsterdam, the resulting vacancy for a leading investigator in experimental dermatology was filled by cell biologist Sue Gibbs, who came from Leiden where she had been involved in research on skin cultures and wound healing. This was also the year in which the VU University Faculty of Medicine and AZVU merged on an organisational level and the academic hospital was renamed VU Medical Center (VUmc). In the following decade the department reached a stable phase, emphasising the training of good clinical and dermatopathological skills among its students, and further expanding its main research lines on wound healing and dermato-allergology, respectively. In 2011 Starink decided to step down from his managerial role and to devote his remaining years prior to retirement to his main interests: teaching, supervising and dermatopathology. At that time, the Boards of VUmc and AMC (Academic Medical Center, the academic hospital of the UvA) had already created plans for an alliance, with a view to a potential merger of the two academic hospitals. Meanwhile, the retirement of Professor Jan Bos had created a vacancy for a new department head of dermatology at the AMC. The Boards of VUmc and AMC reached the decision to appoint two professors, entrusting them with the management of both departments. 118 Contact allergy for primula; plant allergy is one of the areas of interest of the department. BWEADVSMGFINCORR:Opmaak 1 21-07-2014 17:40 Pagina 118