Wakayama Medical College

e-Derma:2010

Department of Dermatology Wakayama Medical University

professaer

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).

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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
Doctors
4) autoinflammatory syndrome
5) aesthetic dermatology