Aesthetic Dermatology during the Pandemic
Invited Speakers:
Dedee Murrell MA (Cambridge) BMBCh (Oxford) FAAD (USA) MD (UNSW) FACD FRCP(Edin)
Professor & Dept Head, Dermatology, St George Hospital, University of NSW, Sydney, Australia
Dr. Dedee F. Murrell is Professor and Head, Dept of Dermatology at St George Hospital, Sydney, Australia. Graduated with honours in Medicine from the University of Cambridge (pre-clinical) in 1984 and Oxford (clinical medicine) in 1987 and subsequently completed general medical training at Oxford, Cambridge and Duke Universities, followed by dermatology residency training at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
Dr. Dedee F. Murrell got many awards and she is serving as a member of American Board of Dermatology, Society for Investigative Dermatology (USA), Australasian Society For Dermatological Research and many more.
President of Australian Society for Dermatology Research
President of Australian Blistering Disease Foundation
International Board Member, European Academy of DermatoVenereology EADV at EADV
Founding CO-Editor Int Journal of Womens Dermatology,Board of Directors,
Research Interest
Dr. Dedee F. Murrell research interests include Acne, Epidermolysis bullosa , Psoriasis, Blistering disorders, Skin cancer.
Research on therapeutics in skin diseases since 1989
Director of clinical trial centre since 1996
Trials on psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, basal cell carcinoma, actinic keratoses, epidermolysis bullosa, pemphigus, pemphigoid, acne, rosacea
Basic research on pathogenesis of bullous disorders - genetic and autoimmune
Specialties: Clinical trials
Medical dermatology
Autoimmune Blistering disorders
Epidermolysis bullosa
Shadi Kourosh, MD, MPH
Dr. Kourosh is a board certified dermatologist and Assistant Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School.She is a graduate of the Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, where she was chosen by the faculty and her peers for awards in Leadership, Outstanding Professionalism and Humanism as a physician.
Dr. Kourosh is committed to patient advocacy and solving public health problems for patients with skin disease. She developed the Skin Advocate iPhone App, a free iPhone application that connects patients with patient advocacy organizations for their skin conditions. She has published and been recognized in the news and many publications, and served as Editor-in-Chief of Dialogues in Dermatology, the American Academy of Dermatology's official podcast and internationally subscribed educational program for physicians.
Dr. Kourosh serves as the Dermatology Department's Director of Community Health.
She is the founding director of the Clinic for Pigmentary Disorders at Massachusetts General Hospital, and the founder and director of Project Phoenix, MGH's pro-bono tattoo removal program.
Dr. Kourosh has won numerous awards including Massachusetts General Hospital's Clinician-Teacher Award, Harvard Medical School's Dean's Community Service Award, and the Ernesto Gonzalez Award for outstanding service to the Latino Community. In 2020 she was named one of Medscape's 25 Rising Stars in Medicine.