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Rick Hoekzema In 2012 Rick Hoekzema (1956) was appointed professor at the VU and head of both the VUmc and AMC departments of dermatology, whereas Menno A. de Rie (1956) became professor at the UvA, vice-head of both departments and coordinating head of research. The two had been friends and colleagues for many years, starting in the 1980s as young PhD students at the Central Laboratory of the Netherlands Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service (CLB, currently Sanquin). There, Hoekzema had completed his PhD thesis, ‘Studies on normal and Low-Molecular-Weight C1q’, after which he worked as a basic immunologist at the Interuniversity Institute of Ophthalmology, one of the research institutes of The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Following his dermatological training at the AMC, Hoekzema had been a staff member at the Academic Hospital Maastricht. In 1999 he returned to Amsterdam to build a large practice offering training qualifications in dermatology and general practice at the Onze Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis (OLVG). He combined this with a part-time appointment at the AMC teaching trainees and supervising dermatopathology. Since 2012 Hoekzema and De Rie have been actively engaged in integrating the departments of der- matology of VUmc and AMC. The dermato-allergology unit at the AMC was closed in October 2012 and since then patients are referred to VUmc for allergological tests. At the same time, patients from VUmc with severe skin conditions requiring hospital admission are now referred to the AMC. Staff members and trainees work in both departments for specific supervising tasks and training, and local teaching sessions for dermatology trainees are held jointly. Clinical and basic researchers and laboratory technicians from both departments increasingly collaborate under a combined research council. References 1. Kalsbeek GL, Cormane RH.“Bound” complement in the skin of patients with chronic discoid lupus erythematosus and systemic lupus erythematosus. Lancet 1964; 2(7352): 178-80. 2. Wachters DH, Frensdorf EL, Hausman R, et al. Keratosis palmoplantaris nummularis (“hereditary painful callosities”). Clinical and histopathologic aspects. J Am Acad Dermatol 1983; 9: 204-9. 3. Nieboer C, de Hoop D, van Loenen AC, et al. Systemic therapy with fumaric acid derivates: new possibilities in the treatment of psoriasis. J Am Acad Dermatol 1989; 20: 601-8. 4. Starink TM, Meijer CJ, Brownstein MH. The cutaneous pathology of Cowden’s disease: new findings. J Cut Pathol 1985; 12: 83-93. 5. Starink TM, van der Veen JP, Arwert F, et al. The Cowden syndrome: a clinical and genetic study in 21 patients. Clin Genet 1986; 29: 222-33. 6. Starink TM, Houweling AC, van Doorn MB, et al. Familial multiple discoid fibromas: a look-alike of Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome not linked to the FLCN locus. J Am Acad Dermatol 2012; 66: 259. 119 BWEADVSMGFINCORR:Opmaak 1 21-07-2014 17:40 Pagina 119