Monday, 26th May 2025
09:00 – 09:30 Welcome and introduction
09:30 – 10:00 Hypersensitivity reactions
10:00 – 10:30 Flea allergy
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45 Food allergy (Critically appraised topics)
11:45 – 12:30 Atopic dermatitis - Epidemiology, pathogenesis, and clinical presentation of canine atopic dermatitis
12:30 – 13:15 Diagnostic Approach to the pruritic dog (Exclusion diagnosis of atopic dermatitis)
13:15 – 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 – 15:15 Microbiome/Skin barrier /Secondary infections
15:15 – 16:00 Otitis externa – PSPP, causes, pathogenesis, management
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:30 Clinical cases, wrap up
Tuesday, 27th May 2025
09:00 – 09:45 Skin and serological testing for IgE sensitization in dogs
09:45 – 10:30 Allergen-specific immunotherapy in dogs
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45 Systemic therapy of canine atopic dermatitis
11:45 – 12:30 Topical therapy of canine atopic dermatitis
12:30 – 13:15 Feline allergies (Part I – epidemiology, clinical presentation, diagnostic approach)
13:15 – 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 – 15:15 Feline allergies (Part II - treatment)
15:15 – 16:00 Other hypersensitivities (Insect bite hypersensitivities/Venom insect/Mosquito bite, mastocytosis/urticaria pigmentosa like dermatitis, Urticaria, contact dermatitis, drug hypersensitivities)
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:30 Practical and straightforward cases (including clinical clues, history interpretation, cytology (ear/skin) cyto and interpretation of these - feline and canine, 1 x new and 1 x recheck)
Wednesday, 28th May 2025
09:00 – 09:45 Autoimmune diseases in dogs and cats: Introduction
09:45 – 10:30 General principles of immunosuppression
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45 Autoimmune diseases of the epidermis: Pemphigus
11:45 – 12:30 Sterile pustular dermatitis, Erythema multiforme/Stevens Johnson syndrome/Toxic epidermal necrolysis
12:30 – 13:15 Autoimmune diseases of the epidermis: Cutaneous lupus
13:15 – 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 – 15:15 SLO
15:15 – 16:00 Autoimmune diseases of melanocytes (incl. VKH-like and AA)
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:30 Clinical cases, Wrap up
Thursday, 29th May 2025
09:00 – 09:45 Basement membrane zone – structure
09:45 – 10:30 Autoimmune diseases of the epidermal basement membrane
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Vasculitis/ischemic dermatopathies
12:30 – 13:15 Autoimmune diseases of the adnexa (Seb. Adenitis/mural folliculitis, alopecia areata, pseudopelade/PLIMF)
13:15 – 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 – 16:00 Clinical cases/Quiz (or Part I immune-mediated diseases of the dermis)
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:30 Clinical cases of participants, Wrap-up
Friday, 30th May 2025
09:00 – 10:30 Selected immune-mediated diseases of the dermis
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 13:15 Immunosuppressive treatment
13:15 – 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 – 16:00 Clinical cases
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:30 Self-assessment, Wrap-up
