Gil Yosipovitch is the newly announced Chair of the Department of Dermatology and Director of the Temple Itch Center at Temple University School of Medicine, and is one of the world’s renowned experts in pruritus. Praveen Anand is Professor of Clinical Neurology and Head of the Centre for Clinical Translation at Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London, UK. Professor Anand is an internationally recognised scientist and clinical researcher in chronic pain.