Westmead Dermatology Striving towards disease-free skin
Hope.Action.Change At Westmead Hospital, we will be having our World Psoriasis Day celebration as we have been doing since year 2010. This time will be on the 27th of October at 6 pm. The World Psoriasis Day theme for 2016 is: Breaking barriers for People with Psoriasis FIGHT prejucide, stigmatization and discrimination RAISE awareness, understanding …
Written by Dr Shelley Hwang Diphencyprone (DPCP) is a topical immunotherapy that is often used to treat alopecia areata and warts. However, there has been some case studies describing its efficacy in treating in-transit melanoma tumours that are not suitable for neither surgery or radiotherapy. We have incorporated Royal Prince Alfred hospital’s DPCP protocol to …
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 Shelley Hwang Recently, we have published a review article describing “Cutaneous adverse events of new anti-melanoma therapies: classification and management” in Actas Dermo-sifiliograficas. The review article describes comprehensive summary of cutaneous adverse events that emerge with the use of systemic anti-melanoma therapies such as BRAF inhibitors, MEK inhibitors, a combination of BRAF …
The report on our study looking at the optimal delivery of phototherapy education to patients was published this week in the British Journal of Dermatology. Summary: This study aimed to improve the phototherapy safety knowledge of patients starting treatment. We designed a self-directed tablet-based education session, which covered the key phototherapy safety and responsibility messages …
Written by Ali Azimi Recently, our original research paper titled “In Silico Analysis Validates Proteomic Findings of Formalin-fixed Paraffin Embedded Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma Tissue” has been accepted for publication in the journal of Cancer Genomics & Proteomics (CGP). The manuscript will be published in the next available issue of CGP. CGP is an international …
During Westmead Hospital Week, the Department of Dermatology participated in the Melanoma Symposium. We presented our High Risk Melanoma Clinic, and the technologies that we are using to increase our sensitivity and specificity in detecting melanomas, and reduce the number of unnecessary surgeries: Total Body Photography, Sequential Digital Dermoscopy, and, very soon, Reflectance Confocal Microscopy. …
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. …
The Skin Hospital, a branch of the Skin and Cancer Foundation Australia, is the biggest provider of Mohs surgery in Australia. This is a very specialised technique to treat skin cancer that minimised the removal of healthy skin and increases the chances of complete clearance. At the Skin and Cancer Foundation Australia we are interesting …
