His main research field is the clinical diagnosis of melanoma and, particularly, the development of more accurate methods for the early recognition of melanoma. He is author of numerous scientific articles concerning dermoscopy for the diagnosis of pigmented skin lesions and early recognition of melanoma. He is also author of 3 books on the subject. Dr. Argenziano is Secretary of the International Dermoscopy Society and is the Congress Secretary of the First Congress of the International Dermoscopy Society in Naples in April 2006 (http://www.dermoscopy-ids.org/).

Visiting dermatologist to the Mater Hospital, South Brisbane. Dermatologist for 'Tele-Derm, National', an online educational and consultational service in dermatology. Censor for the Australasian College of Dermatology.

Special interests; tele-dermatology, medical education, cutaneous malignancy, acne, systemic disease and the skin.

Inaugural 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 dermatopathology dermoscopy and teledermatology.

His main research interest is teledermatology with special emphasis on the virtual dimension
of clinico-pathologic correlation. In 2002 he started together with Gerald Gabler and
Rainer Hofmann-Wellenhof the telederm.org ( www.telederm.org ) project.

In 2006 he organized the First World Congress of Teledermatology in Graz/Austria.
Dr. Soyer is President of the International Dermoscopy Society ( www.dermoscopy-ids.org/ ) and
President of the International Society of Teledermatology ( www.teledermatology-society.org/ ).