History of department
Department of Dermatology, Wakayama Medical University was founded in 1945. The first chairman was Prof. Nishimura, who had studied the pathogenesis of collagen diseases biochemically. The second chairman was Prof. Mishima, who has been studying the whole world of malignant melanoma. The third chairman was Prof.Aoki and the forth was Prof. Matsunaka. In 1999. Dr. Fukumi Furukawa was elected as the fifth chairman( books, reviews and articles from 1978).
ICCLE2008 EUSCLE
35thJSID(2010)
International workshop of Hydroxychloroquine on Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus (pdf)
- Staff and speciality
- Prof. & chairman Fukumi Furukawa collagen disease, atopic dermatitis
- Associate prof. Yuki Yamamoto chemical peeling, skin tumor
- Assistant prof. Nobuo Kanazawa autoinflammatory syndrome, drug eruption
- Clincal assistant prof. Takashi Yoshimasu alopecia
- Instructor. Katsuyuki Okamoto skin surgery
- Instructor. Takaharu Ikeda collagen disease
- Instructor. Chikako Kaminaka non-invasive therapies to cancer
- Instructor.Naoya Mikita
- Instructor.Mariko Ishiguro
- Resident. Tatsuya Shimomatsu
- Yutaka Inaba
- Katsunori Tanaka
- Hisako Okuhira
- Graduate school
- Kimiko Maruyama
- Hong-jin Li
- Kayo Kunimoto
- Mikiko Uede
- Yenan Wang
- Research projects
- 1) lupus erythematosus: cutaneous lupus
- 2) atopic dermatitis: therapeutic effects of novel immunosuppressants
- 3) skin cancer: application of chemical peeling
- 4) autoinflammatory syndrome
- 5) aesthetic dermatology
