Skin disease specialist Jaana Panelius works as the chief specialist in Helsinki University Hospital’s skin disease clinic. She guides and consults specialising physicians and specialists, teaches medical students, and takes part in the clinic’s research projects on the skin symptoms of Lyme’s disease and connective tissue diseases.
She is also in charge of the outpatient clinics for connective tissue diseases (such as dermatomyositis, scleroderma and systemic lupus erythematosus, or simply lupus) and autoimmune diseases involving blisters (such as pemphigoid, pemphigus and dermatitis herpetiformis.
