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Conflicts of interest

Jennifer L. Hsiao is on the Board of Directors for the Hidradenitis Suppurativa Foundation, has served as a consultant for Boehringer Ingelheim, Novartis, and UCB, and has served as a consultant and speaker for AbbVie. Steven D. Daveluy is on the Board of Directors for the Hidradenitis Suppurativa Foundation, has served as a consultant for UCB, an investigator for InflaRx, UCB, Regeneron, and Pfizer, and has served as a consultant, investigator, and speaker for AbbVie. Marcia Hogeling has been an investigator for Celgene and Amgen. Michelle A. Lowes is on the Board of Directors for the Hidradenitis Suppurativa Foundation, has served on the advisory boards for Abbvie, InflaRx, Janssen, and Viela Bio, and consulted for Almirall, BSN Medical, Incyte, Janssen, Kymera, Phoenicis, and XBiotech. Christopher Sayed is on the Board of Directors for the Hidradenitis Suppurativa Foundation, and is a speaker for Abbvie and Novartis, a consultant for Aclaris, InflaRx, Abbvie, Novartis, and UCB, and an investigator for Abbvie, Novartis, UCB, InflaRx, Incyte, and Chemocentryx. Vivian Y. Shi is on the Board of Directors for the Hidradenitis Suppurativa Foundation (HSF), is a stock shareholder of Learn Health, and has served as an advisory board member, investigator, speaker, and/or received research funding from Sanofi Genzyme, Regeneron, AbbVie, Eli Lilly, Novartis, SUN Pharma, LEO Pharma, Pfizer, Incyte, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Aristea Therapeutics, Menlo Therapeutics, Dermira, Burt’s Bees, Galderma, Kiniksa, UCB, WebMD, TARGET-Pharmasolutions, Altus Lab, MYOR, Polyfin, GpSkin and Skin Actives Scientific. Terri Shih and Devea De report no conflicts of interest.

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Author contributions

Conceptualization: Jennifer L. Hsiao, Steven D. Daveluy, Marcia Hogeling, Michelle A. Lowes, Christopher Sayed, Vivian Y. Shi; Writing - original draft preparation: Terri Shih, Michelle A. Lowes, Jennifer L. Hsiao; Writing - review and editing: Devea De, Steven D. Daveluy, Marcia Hogeling, Michelle A. Lowes, Christopher Sayed, Vivian Y. Shi, Jennifer L. Hsiao; Supervision: Jennifer L. Hsiao