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)
- 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
- Clinical prof. Kaoru Tsujioka
- Clinical prof. Chiaki Ohta
- Clincal assistant prof. Takashi Yoshimasu alopecia
- Instructor. Tomoo Kishi skin tumor, laser therapy
- Instructor. Katsuyuki Okamoto skin surgery
- Instructor. Nozomi Yonei cosmetoimmunology
- Instructor. Takaharu Ikeda collagen disease
- Instructor. Chikako Kaminaka non-invasive therapies to cancer
- Senior Resident. Seiko Toyozawa
- Ayako Kimura
- Resident. Tatsuya Shimomatsu
- Naotaka Doi
- Hayato Furue
- Visiting researcher. Naoya Mikita UVA1 and lupus
- Graduate school
- Mizuho Nishiyama
- Kimiko Maruyama
- Mariko Ishiguro
- Hong-jin Li
- Kayo Kunimoto
- Mikiko Uede
- 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
