Photo library acknowledgements
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For PEM Friends: Isobel Davies, Ingrid Thompson and Dr Andy Heath. Isobel gathered together the team, initiated funding, and encouraged patients to provide images. Andy proposed the original Photo Library concept targeted at primary care physicians. He designed and implemented the image collection, filtering, display and diagnostic web-based systems, and created the database of photographs and metadata.
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Sophie Kibbler is Clinical Photographer. She applied her professional criteria to select the final images used in the library from the large number of photographic donations.
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Dr Tim Cunliffe, is a GPwER in Dermatology & Skin Surgery, Executive Chair of the Primary Care Dermatology Society, and author of pcds.org.uk, the fastest growing dermatology website in the world. He provided suggestions about the image metadata and authored the Diagnostic Tool text.
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Dr Phil Hampton is a Consultant Dermatologist and specialises in a number of skin conditions including psoriasis, pemphigus and pemphigoid, and rosacea. He checked the text used in the Diagnostic Tool.
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Dr Sonia Gran is an Assistant Professor at the Centre of Evidence Based Dermatology. She reviewed the progress of the project and made a variety of contributions.
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All the patients with pemphigus and pemphigoid conditions who donated photographs.
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The British Association of Dermatologists (BAD) who provided a grant to fund this work.