Assoc. Prof. John Walter Frew
Director of Research, The Skin Hospital, Sydney
Staff Specialist Dermatologist Liverpool Hospital, Sydney
Dermatologist, Holdsworth House, Sydney
A/Prof John Frew is a fellow of the Australasian College of Dermatologists. He completed his medical degree (with Honours) from the University of New South Wales in 2009, followed by a Masters of Medicine in clinical epidemiology from the University of Sydney in 2011 followed by completion of his dermatology specialist training in 2016 and PhD from Flinders University. He then completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the prestigious Rockefeller University in New York City between 2018-2020 (under the guidance of Professor James Krueger) identifying immunological pathways and novel therapies for the treatment of Hidradenitis Suppurativa.
Dr. Chia-Yu Chu
President, Taiwanese Society for Investigative Dermatology (TSID)
CEO, International Medical Service Center
Professor, Department of Dermatology National Taiwan University Hospital
Dr. Chia-Yu CHU is currently Professor of Dermatology at National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan. His main research interests include atopic dermatitis, urticaria, drug eruptions, and autoimmune blistering diseases. During 2008-2010, he was a Visiting Professor in the University of Paris XII. In the past 15 years, he has been involved in many international clinical trials including novel treatments for atopic dermatitis, urticaria, pemphigus and pemphigoid. He also collaborated with several international research groups to investigate the basic immunologic mechanisms, natural history, and disease burden of atopic dermatitis and urticaria. He is also involved in the development of novel anti-IgE treatments for urticaria and atopic dermatitis. As a dermatologist specialized in immunology and allergy, he has published more than 17 book/chapters and 258 articles about atopic dermatitis, drug eruption, urticaria, and autoimmune blistering diseases in many prestigious journals like NEJM, Lancet, JACI, Allergy, JAAD, JAMA Dermatology, and JEADV.
Assoc. Prof. Hyun Je Kim
Dermatologist, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul
Immunologist, Seoul National University, Seoul
Leader, Lab of Immune Tolerance, Seoul
A/Prof Hyun Je Kim is a Korean physician-Scientist. He completed his medical degree (with Honours) from the Seoul National University College of Medicine in 2007, followed by completion of his dermatology specialist training in 2012 and PhD in 2017 from Samsung Medical Center and Seoul National University. He then completed a post-doctoral fellowship between 2017-2019 (under the guidance of Emma Guttman-Yassky and Miriam Merad) sponsored by Pfizer. He established one of the largest multi omics data generation and analysis pipelines in Korea using various human samples including inflammatory skin diseases.
Professor Dedee Murrell
MA(Cambridge) BMBCh(Oxford) MD(UNSW) FAAD(USA)
FACD FRCP(Edin) DSc (Oxford)
Chair, Department of Dermatology, St George Hospital,
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Professorial Fellow, The George Institute of Global Health, Sydney
Professor Dedee Murrell completed medical training at Cambridge and Oxford Universities, 3 years of internal medicine in the UK and USA, dermatology training at UNC-Chapel Hill, a fellowships in dermatopharmacology at Duke University, blistering diseases and cell biology at New York University, and then became  a clinical scholar in psoriasis and epidermolysis bullosa at Rockefeller University with Jim Krueger, completing a doctorate on the pathogenesis of blistering disorders.
She has developed and validated outcome measures for pemphigus, pemphigoid and EB and designs and conducts clinical trials of new therapies for blistering diseases and inflammatory dermatoses. She has edited 6 books on blistering diseases, including the textbook, Blistering Diseases.
She was President of ICD2021, the quadrennial congress of the Intl Society of Dermatology and world-first ‘dermathon’, whose board she has served on since 2011 and Secretary-General of the World Congress of Itch held in Sydney in 2019. She has delivered invited lectures in 50 countries.
Dr. CHEUNG Christina Man-tung
Consultant of the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics
Chief of Division of Dermatology at the Prince of Wales Hospital
Dr. CHEUNG Christina Man-tung is a specialist in Dermatology and Venereology from Hong Kong. She is a Consultant of the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics and the Chief of Division of Dermatology at the Prince of Wales Hospital. She also serves as Honorary Clinical Associate Professor for the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Board member for Dermatology and Venereology Specialty Board of Hong Kong College of Physicians. Her subspecialty interests include inflammatory dermatoses, autoimmune blistering diseases, and drug eruptions.