World-renowned Polish-American dermatologist Lidia Rudnicka has been a major contributor to the fields of melanoma prevention, hair diseases and scleroderma research. Currently chairman of the Department of Dermatology at Medical University of Warsaw, she was previously chairman of the Department of Dermatology CSK MSWiA (Central Clinical Hospital of Ministry of Internal Affaires) in Poland. Rudnicka is associate editor of the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, president of the Polish Dermatological Society, regional editor for the International Journal of Trichology and first president of the International Society of Trichoscopy. She has co-authored and authored in excess of 200 book chapter and articles, mostly covering biological therapies, videodermoscopy, autoimmune skin diseases, epidemiology of skin diseases, trichoscopy, and managing medical institutions.

Born in Chicago, USA, Rudnicka studied in Europe in Bonn and Cologne before graduated with a medical degree from Warsaw Medical School . She then studied for a PhD in medical sciences in and a habilitation degree before landing the roles of Assistant Professor and Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Dermatology at Warsaw Medical School. Since 2008 she has continued to work at the Medical University of Warsaw as a professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences. Rudnicka has also worked overseas, in American and European institutions: Food and Drug Administration in the USA, Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and the University of Liège in Belgium.