Dédée Murrell
Professor, Faculty of Medicine Head, Department of Dermatology University of New South Wales St. George Hospital Sydney, Australia
Biography
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.
