​Dr Shinichi Imafuku graduated from Kyushu University in 1991 and completed his dermatology residency at the Department of Dermatology, Kyushu University. He subsequently conducted research on herpesvirus infections at the University of Maryland at Baltimore. After returning to Japan, he focused on clinical dermatologic research and became Professor and Chair of Dermatology at Fukuoka University in 2014. His current research interests include infectious skin diseases caused by herpes simplex virus (HSV) and varicella-zoster virus (VZV), psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, and genetic skin disorders such as neurofibromatosis. Dr Imafuku also serves as a board member of the Japanese Dermatological Association and leads multicenter registry studies on psoriasis in Japan.

Dr. Cheng-Che Lan received his MD degree from National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, and his PhD degree from Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Currently, Dr. Lan is the Professor and Chair of the Dermatology Department at Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, as well as the Deputy Dean of Biomedical Artificial Intelligence Academy at Kaohsiung Medical University. Regarding his involvement in the scientific community, Dr. Lan is executive director of the Taiwanese Dermatological Association (TDA) and director of the Taiwanese Society for Investigative Dermatology (TSID). Currently, he is the editor-in-chief of Photodermatology, Photoimmunology & Photomedicine and Dermatologica Sinica (the official journal of TDA and TSID), as well as the section editor for the Journal of Dermatological Science. He also serves as the President of the Asian Society of Pigment Cell Research and is a council member of the International Federation of Pigment Cell Societies.

A/Prof Adriene Lee has been a dermatologist since 2005 and works in private practice in Melbourne. She is a visiting dermatologist at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne and North Western Regional Health Services, Burnie, Tasmania. She is a Clinical Associate Professor within the Department of Medicine at St Vincents Hospital, Melbourne University. She has an interest in medical dermatology, in particular contact dermatitis.

A/Prof Lee has a particular interest in education and training. She has sat on multiple College committees over the last 20 years . She was the Dean of Education from 2018-2021 and more recently completed 7 years as a Board Director and her term as President of the Australasian College of Dermatologists. She is a regional director for the Global Access to Skin Health Observatory Study and a Commissioner for the Lancet Commission on Skin Health. She is the current Chair of Workstream 2 (Screening Intervention and Management Pathways) of the Roadmap for a National Targeted Skin Cancer Screening Program.

Henry W. Lim is the former Clarence S. Livingood chair and chairman of the Department of Dermatology (1997-2017), Henry Ford Health, Detroit, Michigan, USA. Dr Lim has served as president of the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD), American Board of Dermatology, American Dermatological Association, American Society for Photobiology, and International Union of Photobiology. In 2023, he was elected as president of the International League of Dermatological Societies, which consists of over 200 international societies from over 100 countries as members, representing over 180,000 dermatologists. He was bestowed an Honorary Membership of the AAD in 2020, and in March 2026, he was awarded the AAD Gold Medal, the highest honor given by the AAD. He has published more than 700 articles and edited 11 textbooks (with over 43,000 citations in Google Scholar with an h-index of 105).

A/Prof Adrian Mar is a Melbourne-based dermatologist.  He served as Head of the Department of Dermatology at Monash Health for 18 years and holds an appointment as Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Monash University.  He has a subspecialty interest in vitiligo and co-founded the Vitiligo Clinic at the Skin Health Institute.  He is also a co-founder of Digital Dermatology, a teledermatology platform launched six months ago.

Professor Miles Prince is an Australian haematologist and Professor of Medicine at both Melbourne and Monash Universities. He is the Professor/Director of Cancer Immunology and Molecular Oncology at Epworth Healthcare and also a Haematologist at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.

He is a very active clinician, also overseeing clinical and laboratory research – the latter involving stem cell research and cancer immunology. He has been involved in numerous clinical trials of new therapies for blood cancers and has been the Principal Investigator of over 200 clinical trials. He has published over 550 peer-reviewed manuscripts. He has been the one of the lead investigators on trials for cutaneous and peripheral T cell lymphoma leading to the regulatory approval of brentuximab vedotin, vorinostat, romidepsin, extracorporeal photophoresis and denileukin diftitox.

He is Co-Chairman of the Australian Cutaneous T cell Lymphoma Network and co-leader in the T cell Lymphoma group of the Australia Lymphoma Alliance. He has previously served on the Board of the International Society of Cutaneous Lymphoma and is currently on the Steering Committees of the T cell Project 2.0 and the Prospective Cutaneous Lymphoma International Prognostic Index (PROCLIPI). He has served on the Lymphoma Hub Exec Steering Committee (www.lymphomahub.com) since 2012 and the Multiple Myeloma Hub Exec Steering Committee member (www.myelomahub.com) since 2017.

He is a Fellow of the Academy of Health & Medical Sciences and in 2014 Miles was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for distinguished services to medicine particularly in the areas of blood cancer research, patient care and philanthropy leadership.

Professor Ingrid Winship AO is a clinician scientist in Clinical Genetics, Cancer Genetics and Dermatology. In 2006 she became the Inaugural Chair of Adult Clinical Genetics at the University of Melbourne and The Royal Melbourne Hospital. She was also at this time appointed as Melbourne Health’s Executive Director of Research and during her 12-year tenure launched the Clinical Trials Research Centre in the city campus. Professor Winship is currently a Director of the Boards of the Australian Genome Research Facility and Global Variome. She is immediate past Chair of the Australian Health Ethics Committee and a at that time was member of the of the NHMRC Council (2018-2024). She served a term on the Board of the Australasian College of Dermatologists (2017- 2020). 

She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) on Queen’s Birthday 2020 for ‘distinguished service to medicine, particularly to clinical genetics and research, to cancer prevention, and as a role model and mentor.’ In 2023 she was awarded the Australasian College of Dermatologists Silver Medal for Outstanding Services to Dermatology.

Dr Lisa Abbott is a dermatologist and former barrister. After completing degrees in Medicine, Law and Politics at the University of Sydney, she trained across major tertiary centres in NSW and Victoria.

Lisa has a strong interest in digital health, access to care, and the evolving role of AI and teledermatology in clinical practice. She is a member of the College’s Digital Health Committee and co-author of its teledermatology guidelines. She regularly speaks on medicolegal issues affecting doctors in a changing technological landscape, supervises registrars and educates medical students as a Clinical Associate Lecturer at the University of New South Wales.

Her clinical work spans medical and surgical dermatology, with particular interests in acne, inflammatory skin disease, hyperhidrosis and teledermatology.

Dr Arif Aslam is a Consultant Dermatologist and fellowship-trained Mohs micrographic surgeon with over 20 years’ experience in medicine. He specialises in the treatment of complex and high-risk skin cancers, and has trained and worked across the UK, New Zealand and Australia, bringing a well-rounded, international approach to his practice.

He completed his specialist dermatology training in Manchester before undertaking a Mohs fellowship at Oxford Dermatology in Perth, Western Australia.

Dr Aslam now focuses exclusively on skin cancer and Mohs surgery. He works in the NHS at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust as well as in private practice. He’s known for his calm, patient-focused approach and takes pride in achieving excellent clinical and cosmetic results.

Austen is a Consultant Dermatologist at Royal Perth Hospital who has a passion for environmentally sustainable healthcare. Austen is a member and incoming Chair of the Australasian College of Dermatologist’s Environment and Sustainability Group. In addition to her clinical role, Austen is Medical Advisor in the Sustainable Development Unit in the Western Australian Department of Health and is completing a Master of Public Health at the University of Western Australia. Austen has a special interest in the impacts of plastics on skin health and has recently published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology on this subject.

When not trying to save the planet, Austen enjoys spending time with her young family, yoga, gardening, baking and rescuing vintage furniture from verges.

Dr Desmond Gan is a Fellow of the Australasian College of Dermatologists (FACD). He is the principal dermatologist of a private dermatology group practice Melbourne Eastside Dermatology, and practices across all fields of dermatology in medical, surgical, cosmetic, and laser dermatology. He consults sessionally at the Skin Health Institute vitiligo and laser clinics, and is also a visiting dermatologist at The Alfred Hospital and Monash Medical Centre.

Dr Gan’s private practice is located at Eastern suburbs of Melbourne where he has developed subspecialty interest in laser therapy for patients with darker skin tones, especially those with Fitzpatrick Skin Types III and IV. He employs a wide range of energy-based devices in his practice to treat pigmentary concerns, vascular conditions, skin rejuvenation, and scarring. He currently holds Key Opinion Leader KOL positions with energy based device company Candela Medical ANZ and Solta Medical Australia.

A/Professor Simone M Goldinger is a specialist dermatologist, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Queensland’s Frazer Institute, and Consultant Dermatologist at Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane. A Fellow of the Australasian College of Dermatologists (FACD), she brings over 15 years of international experience across clinical practice, translational research, and multicentre clinical trials.

Following advanced training at the Melanoma Institute Australia with Professor Georgina Long, and international fellowships at Massachusetts General Hospital and UCSF, A/Prof Goldinger has led multidisciplinary dermato-oncology programs and established a Phase I clinical trial unit in Europe. She is a recipient of the 2026 Translational Research Institute Fellowship and serves on the ACD Training and Education Committee. Her research focuses on skin cancer therapeutics, cutaneous immunotoxicity of systemic cancer therapies, and AI-driven early detection, with publications in Nature Medicine, Science, and The Lancet Oncology.

Professor David Hare studied at the University of Melbourne and Guy’s Hospital, London.

He is a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne and for a number of years was the Coordinator of Cardiovascular Research for the University of Melbourne, as well as working as a cardiologist at Austin Health in Melbourne.

He has supervised over 90 research students and, each year, he has >1,000 international citations to his own personal research.

His research interests range include revascularisation strategies, familial hyperlipidaemia, basic molecular laboratory studies, heart failure, exercise, renal disease, diabetes, obesity, randomised clinical trials and the psychosocial aspects of heart disease, being the only cardiologist in the world who is also fully trained in psychiatry.

He received the AMRF Distinguished Scientist Medal (2011), was elected a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology 2013 for Scientific Excellence, was Australian of the Year Nominee 2020, and received the Order of Australia Medal (2021) for services to Cardiology.

His interest in lipids and prevention of heart disease included a period as Medical Director, National Heart Foundation (Vic Div) 1983-1990. Currently he is the Director of The Melbourne Lipid Centre.

Matthew is a specialist dermatologist at Novus Dermatology in Geelong and at Box Hill Hospital as part of Eastern Health.

He completed his postgraduate medical degree at Monash University and was awarded the overall dux of his medicine degree.

Matthew also completed an undergraduate degree in pharmacy at La Trobe University and was awarded the overall dux of his degree. Prior to the dermatology specialty training program in Melbourne, he completed a Master of Philosophy with honours at Monash University on the subject of melanoma with the Victorian Melanoma Service.

During his training, Matthew was awarded the Adrian Johnson memorial prize for the best paper/publication in the Australasian Journal of Dermatology by a College trainee as a lead author in a calendar year. 

Dr Ahmed Kazmi MRCP FACD is a Melbourne based dermatologist and clinical senior lecturer with a special interest in alopecia and inclusive dermatology. He is a passionate medical educationalist. He is excited to speak to the trainees about the important topic of optimising communication skills and developing skills for complex consultations.

Dr Giovanni Leone is a renowned Consultant Dermatologist and Scientific Coordinator at the Israelite Hospital in Rome, specialising in photodermatology and vitiligo treatment. Born in Rome in 1958, he earned his medical degree from the University of Roma, La Sapienza, and holds board certifications in Dermatology, Allergology, and Tropical Medicine. Dr Leone has led photodermatology units, developed innovative sunscreen testing labs, and supervised numerous students and residents. He has held leadership roles in the Italian Photodermatology Group and the European Society for Photodermatology, and is a member of several international dermatology societies. His research focuses on vitiligo, phototherapy, and photoprotection, with significant contributions as a principal investigator and course coordinator. Dr Leone is also an Associate Editor for “Photodermatology, Photoimmunology and Photomedicine,” CEO of Fototerapia Dermatologica in Rome, and head of the Vitiligo Unit at Columbus Clinic in Milan.

Dr Melissa Manahan is a Brisbane-based dermatologist.  She works in private practice and is a Visiting Medical Officer at a general medical dermatology clinic at the  Princess Alexandra Hospital. Melissa graduated from medicine with the University Medal at UQ in 2010. Before studying medicine, she worked as a pharmacist in both hospital and community settings.

Professor Victoria Mar is a Fellow of the Australasian College of Dermatologists and Director of the Victorian Melanoma Service at the Alfred Hospital. She holds an NHMRC Investigator Grant with a focus on early diagnosis of melanoma and skin cancer and surveillance of high-risk individuals, including the use of artificial intelligence. She is Chair of the Australian Centre of Excellence for Melanoma Imaging and Diagnosis, a Board member of the Melanoma and Skin Cancer Trials Group and leads a number of investigator-led clinical trials.

John is the Clinical Director of The Children’s Bioethics Centre (CBC) at The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne. The CBC provides clinical ethics advice to clinicians and the RCH executive, builds capacity in ethical thinking across the RCH campus through its education program and undertakes research in paediatric bioethics. In his clinical work, Prof Massie looks after children from birth to adolescence and is interested in discovering the child who has the disease and supporting their moral agency. Prof Massie has extensive experience caring for children with neuromuscular weakness requiring ventilator support and also works in the RCH cystic fibrosis clinic. John has published many papers and book chapters about paediatric respiratory medicine, ethics and the medical humanities. John edited the recently published book, ‘Deciding with Children’. John is the host of the CBC podcast show, Essential Ethics.

Associate Professor Vanessa Morgan is Head of Unit at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, consultant dermatologist at the Royal Children’s Hospital and runs a busy inner city dermatology practice.

Dr Jenny Nicolopoulos is the Clinical Lead of HS Biologics Clinic at The Royal Melbourne Hospital since 2003 and principal Clinician of Fairfield Dermatology Clinic. 

Jenny manages complex cases of Biologics HS and Psoriasis patients and is an expert in Metabolic Dermatology, a common root cause association of HS/Psoriasis. 

Dr Cathal O’Connor works as a consultant dermatologist in Cork and is dual-trained as a consultant paediatrician. He graduated from University College Cork and undertook basic training with the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland in both paediatrics and adult medicine, higher specialist training in both dermatology and paediatrics, a PhD with the Irish Clinical and Academic Training programme, followed by a fellowship in paediatric dermatology in London. He is author of several dermatology textbook chapters, has over 100 academic publications and has a special interest in paediatric dermatology, with primary research interests including inflammatory skin disease including atopic dermatitis, and genetic skin disease. His PhD examined sleep and neurodevelopment in infants with atopic dermatitis. He is the programme lead for the RCPI iHeed dermatology postgraduate course, the RCPI training course for isotretinoin in primary care, and the HSE pilot project of advanced triage for children with atopic dermatitis. He has been chosen as a ‘Future Leader’ by the executive boards of the European Society for Paediatric Dermatology and the European Society of Dermatological Research.

Dr Tam Quinn is a Plastic and Reconstructive surgeon based in Melbourne. After completion of her training in 2020, she completed a burns fellowship at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne as well as a head and neck fellowship at the Chris O’Brien Lifehouse and the Melanoma Institute of Australia in Sydney. Tam has public at Eastern Health and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre where she is the clinical lead for head and neck and at The Alfred Hospital where is a senior burn surgeon and serves on the Board of the Australia and New Zealand Burn Association. In addition to her clinical work Tam’s has a strong interest in education as well as multidisciplinary care.

Dr Marius Rademaker BM FRCP(Edin) FRACP DM FNZDSI FACD is a medical and paediatric dermatologist in New Zealand. He was born in the Netherlands, went to primary school in the USA, secondary school in Mexico City and Medical School in the United Kingdom. He has worked in New Zealand for 30 years and was an Hon Associate Professor (Auckland University School of Medicine) and Clinical Director/Head of the Dermatology Department, Waikato Hospital District Health Board. He has been on the Editorial Board of the AJD for over 25 years, having been a previous Editor-in-Chief.

Dr Rademaker has had a long interest in clinical research, pharmaco-vigilance and pharmaco-economics, having been chair of the NZ Medicines Adverse Reactions Committee (MARC) and deputy chair of the NZ Pharmacology and Therapeutics Advisory Committee (PTAC) which advises which medicines should be purchased by the NZ Government. He has been lead-author on a number of Australian/New Zealand consensus statements including on the management of acne, rosacea, atopic eczema, hand dermatitis and psoriasis, and has over 200 research publications.

Danny Rischin is a medical oncologist/clinician researcher at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Professorial Fellow, Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne. He is a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Leadership Fellow. From 2007 to 2021 he was the Director of the Department of Medical Oncology at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and served a 10 year term as Associate Editor of the leading oncology journal, The Journal of Clinical Oncology. Over his career his major clinical and research interests have been in the development of new treatments and novel biomarkers for head and neck and skin cancers. He has published extensively on these topics (> 320 publications, > 36,000 citations, h-index 83). He played a major role in the pivotal practice changing trials defining the role of immunotherapy in cutaneous SCC both in the advanced/metastatic and adjuvant settings, as well as the promising neoadjuvant trials.

A/Prof Susan Robertson is a consultant dermatologist in Melbourne and the current Director of Dermatology at the Royal Children’s Hospital, where she leads the epidermolysis bullosa (EB) clinical program. She completed her fellowship in EB at St John’s Institute of Dermatology and Great Ormond Street Hospital in London and has extensive expertise in the diagnosis and management of EB and genodermatoses and has published numerous papers in this field. A/Prof Robertson holds an honorary appointment at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and has been the principal investigator (PI) for EB clinical trials at the Melbourne Children’s Trials Centre.

A/Prof. Rodrigues is a Melbourne based dermatologist with two decades of clinical experience. Her special areas of expertise include pigmentary disorders, skin of colour dermatology, photoprotection and laser and aesthetics in skin of colour. She serves as a consultant dermatologist in at the Royal Children’s Hospital and Skin Health institute and is the director of Chroma Dermatology, Australia’s first dedicated dermatology centre for pigmentary disorders and skin of colour located in the eastern and south eastern suburbs of Melbourne.

A/Prof. Rodrigues has a strong commitment to education and research. She has authored multiple textbook chapters, has published extensively and is a regular lecturer at local and international meetings.

Prof. Rodrigues currently serves as the President of the Asian Society for Pigment Cell Research and chairs the Global Council of the Skin of Color Society. She is also one of the Oceania Ambassadors for the upcoming 26th World Congress of Dermatology.

Adjunct Associate Professor Craig Sinclair is Head of Prevention and Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for UV Radiation at the Cancer Council Victoria.  He is the Chair of the Standards Australia Sunscreen committee and contributes to international public health guidance on UV matters, including as lead author of WHO’s Risk and Guidance note on Sunbeds and co-author of WHO’s Public Health Interventions to Manage Sunbeds. He is responsible for population-wide cancer prevention and screening programs including the world leading Quit and SunSmart programs.

Hayden Snow is a Sarcoma and Melanoma surgeon at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. He has a clinical and research interest in environmentally sustainable surgery and aims to improve the footprint of surgery through various roles at Peter Mac, University of Melbourne and the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. 

Dr Annabel Stevenson is a consultant dermatologist working at a number of public hospitals in SA and NT as well as in private practice. She has an interest in hair disorders and has undertaken a hair fellowship with Professor Antonella Tosti in Miami. She runs the Hair Disorders Clinic at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Adelaide.

Dr Ernest Tan is a Consultant Dermatologist and Head of Department at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and works in private practice at Burswood Dermatology. He is the Chair of the Australasian College of Dermatologists Mohs Surgery Committee. He is also a Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Western Australia. He has an interest in provision of Mohs surgery services to both privately insured and public hospital patients in the state of Western Australia.

Dr Tan has been actively involved in multiple clinical trials in the treatment of skin cancers, atopic dermatitis, psoriasis and solar keratoses. He has published over 25 articles in multiple peer reviewed journals. His special areas of interest in the field of Dermatology include the management of Skin Cancers with Mohs surgery, Atopic dermatitis, Psoriasis, and Melanoma.

Dr. Eugene Tan is a dermatologist and Mohs surgery practitioner based in New Zealand. He is a member of the Environmental Sustainability Group (ESG) of the Australasian College of Dermatologists, has published several articles on sustainability, and continues to collaborate with researchers globally on this topic.

Dr Philip Tong is a Fellow of the Australasian College of Dermatologists after completing his dermatology specialist training in NSW as the inaugural Dean’s Fellow in Dermatology, a joint initiative with The University of Sydney. He underwent world class-research and dermatology training in Sydney, Perth, Melbourne and London and is currently a Visiting Medical Officer at St Vincent’s Hospital, visiting scientist at Garvan Institute for Medical Research and in private practice in Sydney. His early research focus was in melanoma, biomedical imaging and skin immunology, however he now focuses his energy in utilising technology to improve dermatology access to patients through a virtual care platform called DermScreen.

Dr Sachin Vaidya is a fellow of Australasian college of dermatologist and works as dermatologist in his private clinics at Dermatology SA, South Australia. He also works as a visiting medical specialist at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital , The Royal Adelaide Hospital and Lyell Mac Hospital.
His interests are the management of pigmentary disorders, psoriasis, skin cancer, hair loss, paediatric dermatology and surgical dermatology. He has a broad experience in treating infectious skin diseases, vitiligo and pigmentary skin conditions. He has a strong academic interest and is involved in teaching students, registrars, and general practitioners.

Emma is a general dermatologist with an interest in vulval dermatology. She trained in the UK and moved to Melbourne in 2012, and now works in the vulval clinic at the Royal Women’s Hospital. Her current research interests include sexual function for women with vulval disorders, particularly lichen sclerosus.

Katy Wallace is an AHPRA Endorsed Nurse Practitioner in Melbourne with over 25 years of experience in dermatology -both locally and internationally.

Katy has trained extensively alongside leading international dermatologists in laser, energy-based devices and injectables with a particular interest in optimising skin health and synergistic multi-layered treatments.

She fulfils her passion for education with teaching and has co-authored articles under the stewardship of dermatologists with the ASCPD- of which 3 have won an international award.

Katy practices at The Dermatology Institute of Victoria, her own practice Skinline and is a clinical trainer for Merz Aesthetics.