Professor/chief physician at Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine Units: Section of Medicine, Dermatology and Venereology
1A, målpunkt B41, enheten för medicin, Norrlands Universitetssjukhus Umeå universitet, by1a, B41, NUS, 901 85 Umeå
Marcus studied medicine in Frankfurt, Vienna and Edmonton. During his studies he started his psoriasis research with a thesis on the immunogenetics of psoriasis under the guidance of Enno Christophers and Wolfram Sterry. The German research council (DFG) funded his postdoc at the laboratory of Georg Stingl in Vienna from 1993-95. Thereafter, he completed his specialist training at the Charité in Berlin. He was appointed associate professor of dermatology at the NTNU in Trondheim, Norway in 2000. Since 2002 he has been working at Umeå university, where he was appointed head of the division of dermatovenereology in 2012, full professor and distinguished teacher in 2014. His main research interest is besides melanoma and genodermatoses psoriasis. He founded the Swedish national psoriasis registry PsoReg in 2006 and co-founded the international PsoNet register. He serves on the editorial boards of three medical journals and is an associate editor for the British Journal of Dermatology. Marcus serves as senior advisor for several public agencies and organizations.
• Head of the Swedish psoriasis register, PsoReg, Co-founder & steering board the European psoriasis registry, Psonet
• Responsible dermatologist, project management of the National guidelines for psoriasis, the National Board of Health and Welfare (SoS)
• Member of the program committee, the Swedish Society of Medicine
• Editorial board: BMC Dermatology, Clinical Drug Investigation, Journal of Clinical Medicine
• Associate Editor: British Journal of Dermatology
• Expert advisor:
- the Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment (SBU)
- Swedish Medical Products Agency (MPA)
- The Swedish psoriasis patient organisation
• Coordinator:
- The educationally awarded teachers network @ Umeå univ.
- Master thesis (30 ECTS), medicine program, Umeå univ.
- Psoriasis research, the medical biobank Umeå
- Dermatology, Västerbotten county pharmaceutical committee
• Pubmed
• ResearchGate
• Publons
• LinkedIn
