Westmead Dermatology
Striving towards disease-free skin
As medical practitioners, we often promote healthy living to our patients. We encourage patients to exercise and stay active. However, often doctors face difficulties in balancing our lives with heavy workload, and finding right time to train and exercise can be challenging. Recently, one of our dermatology registrar Dr Tevi Wain has successfully completed Oxfam …
Written by Dr Cathy Zhao From August 25th to August 28th, the research team at Westmead Hospital attended the Combined Pacific Research Conference at Noosa, Queensland. The conference was held by The Australasian College of Dermatologists (ACD), the New Zealand Dermatological Society Inc. (NZDSi), Australasian Society for Dermatology Research (ASDR) together with the Japanese Dermatological …
Congratulations to Shelley Hwang on being awarded the University of Sydney Postgraduate Award and Cancer Research Network Postgraduate Conference Travel Grant. Also congratulations to Ali Azimi for being nominated as one of the three winners of the Postgraduate Research Seminars through Sydney Medical School-Westmead. He will be competing for the young investigator award in November. …
Written by Dr Shelley Ji Eun Hwang Recently, we have successfully held ‘Melanoma Monday in May’ education forum for the general public at Westmead hospital auditorium on 23rd of May. This forum was aimed at educating patients and their families from the diagnosis and treatment of melanoma. The first speaker was Professor Mann (geneticist) who …
Written by Dr Cathy Zhao My name is Cathy and I am a new research fellow at the department this year. The research team, consisting of Professor Pablo Fernandez-Penas, Dr Shelley Hwang (research fellow), Dr Marina Ali (research unit manager) and Ms Rupal Patel (clinical trials Admin officer) has been such a pleasure to work …
The 21st Annual Lorne Proteomics Symposium, organized by the Australasian Proteomics Society, was held between February 4th – 7th 2016 at the Mantra hotel and conference centre in Lorne, Victoria. The Symposium which was attended by more than a hundred scientists and researchers presented the latest developments in proteomics technologies and tools for the interpretation …
Ali Azimi, PhD student from our department has been on the organising committee for 2015 Cancer Life-span Symposium. Congratulations Ali for the great work! ***************** The 2015 Cancer Life-span Symposium was held on 9th of September at the Westmead Millennium Institute and more than 90 cancer researchers had attended the symposium. The symposium which was …
A/Prof Pablo Fernandez-Peñas was interviewed regarding sun protection and winter months. This interview appeared in the Manly Daily newspaper. The message is clear: “We can’t feel UV light, and the heat sensation is not related to the amount of UV light”. If you want to read the rest of the interview, you should be able …
Westmead Hospital week research symposium is on from 19th of August until 21st of August 2015. Dermatology has 5 posters (Poster numbers 18-22) on display covering recent topics in melanoma therapy including BRAF inhibitors and targeted immunotherapies. We are also presenting the exciting first set of data on proteomics analysis of squamous cell carcinoma, one …
First year Dermatology registrar Dr Burcu Kim has recently received 2 awards for her research, conducted at the Skin Hospital (Skin & Cancer Foundation Australia) with A/Prof Pablo Fernández-Peñas, titled ‘Scar outcomes in Dermatologic Surgery’. The Eileen Collins Memorial Prize, sponsored by the NSW faculty, and the Best Paper in the Registrars Forum at the …
