HS Provider Resource Hub
Practical resources for clinicians caring for people with hidradenitis suppurativa.
Access provider-focused treatment guidance, procedural education, and HS Connect resources in one place. Use this page as a starting point for deeper learning and clinical conversations around HS care.
Three provider resources. One place to find them.
This hub brings together HS Connect’s current provider-facing resources so clinicians can move quickly between treatment guidance, procedural education, and the Dear Dermatologist resource.
Treatment Guidelines
Review published guidelines for the treatment and management of hidradenitis suppurativa.
View guidelines →Deroofing Videos
Access instructional and real-procedure videos focused on deroofing techniques for HS.
View procedure videos →Dear Dermatologist
Open the HS Connect Dear Dermatologist provider resource.
Read the full letter →Treatment Guidelines
HS Connect’s Treatment Guidelines page brings together published guidance for the treatment and management of hidradenitis suppurativa symptoms.
Go directly to the guidelines
Use the dedicated Treatment Guidelines page to review the published clinical guidance currently collected by HS Connect.
Provider-focused: the guidelines are intended for clinicians.
Published resources: use the linked page as the central location for available guidance.
Clinical context matters: treatment decisions should be individualized to the patient.
Deroofing Videos
The HS Connect Deroofing Videos library includes instructional and procedure-based videos demonstrating deroofing approaches used in HS care.
Watch the procedure library
The current library includes an HS deroofing instructional video, deroofing of sinus tracts, and a punch deroofing procedure video.
The linked videos show real procedures and may contain graphic medical imagery.
Instructional content focused on HS deroofing.
Real-world procedural demonstrations.
One dedicated location for the current HS Connect deroofing video library.
Every Diagnosis
Begins With a Person.
Clinical guidelines, procedures, and treatment plans matter. But before any of those comes a patient who has often spent years living with pain, shame, fear, and isolation.
“I wish you knew how much courage it took me to come to this appointment today.”
Dear Dermatologist
A letter from Brindley Brooks describing what patients hope every clinician understands before the appointment begins.
Dear Dermatologist,
I wish you knew how much courage it took me to come to this appointment today, how embarrassed I am to talk about this, let alone show it to you. I don’t even like looking at myself in the mirror and now I have to show this to someone else. I know you’re a doctor and I shouldn’t be fearful, but I don’t know how you could expect someone not to be.
“I wish you knew how much courage it took me to come to this appointment today.”
I’m here because I’ve reached a point where this has impacted my life so much that I don’t know what else to do; I feel alone, gross, ashamed and depressed. I am in constant pain when dealing with a flare, I am embarrassed that it’s gotten this bad and don’t know what can be done about it.
I haven’t told most people in my life about this, I have kept it a secret for so long and I don’t know what to do now that I’m here, trying to get help. I’ve been doing this on my own for so long, I don’t know what to expect from my visit here today.
Here’s what patients like me need so desperately from you:
- I need to be reminded this my HS is not my fault.
- I need to be told this disease can impact anyone.
- I need a partner in my treatment. I’m not a “sprint” patient, I’m a “marathon” patient.
- I need hope for a better life with HS.
- I need validation that my mental health struggles and my pain are real.
- I need trustworthy information.
- I need to know there are others like me.
- I need an urgent flare plan.
- I need to know you will walk with me through this journey.
“I’m not a ‘sprint’ patient. I’m a ‘marathon’ patient.”
What I don’t need is to leave your office feeling more shame than I came in feeling. I don’t need to be told to lose weight or quit smoking. I don’t need statistics that don’t help me navigate today. I need compassion and partnership.
I wish you could understand the impacts this disease has had on my life—physically, mentally, emotionally, socially, and financially. There isn’t a part of my life that hasn’t been impacted by my HS.
“There isn’t a part of my life that hasn’t been impacted by my HS.”
If I had the courage to tell you all of this, I would have, but coming into this office today was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. Please stand by me while I begin my HS journey.
Brindley Brooks