Dr. Balak is a dermatologist at the Department of Dermatology of the Leiden University Medical Center (Leiden, Netherlands), where he combines patient care with teaching responsibilities and research. His clinical interests are centered on the impact and management of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. His scientific interests include translational medicine, clinical drug development, and evaluation in the field of chronic immune-mediated inflammatory skin diseases, such as psoriasis. As a 2019 IPC Fellow, he studied with Dr. Alice Gottlieb at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, New York, and attended the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV) Congress. While in New York, he observed Dr. Gottlieb’s clinics with complex and therapy-recalcitrant cases of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. He joined residents in didactics programs and ground rounds and participated in ongoing psoriasis-research projects (IDEOM).