Dermatologists

Pascale Guitera is Dermatologist from France who specialises in skin tumours. She has been granted the Fellowship of the Australasian College of Dermatology. She has completed a PhD in collaboration with the Curie Institute (one of Europe’s leading scientific institutions) on instrumentations for the diagnosis of skin tumours (dermoscopy, digital monitoring, total body photography, in vivo reflectance confocal microscopy, 75MHz high frequency ultrasound, magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and multiphoton microscopy). She has a particular interest in the technique of in vivo confocal microscopy that allows doing non invasive “optical” biopsy. She is considered to be one of the top ten world expert in this field.

Dr Andrea Jopp-McKay was the first dermatologist to join Melanoma Institute Australia in January 2009, thereby extending the Institute’s multidisciplinary framework to include dermatology specialist services. Andrea graduated from the University of Sydney in 1984, and gained postgraduate experience at Fremantle and Concord Hospitals as well as Prince of Wales Randwick, and a short period in Philadelphia in the US. Andrea has been in private practice since 1994 mainly in Mosman. She served rural areas for over a decade with regular clinics in Bathurst. Her aim is to improve the early diagnosis of melanoma in high risk individuals, while caring for patients’ other sun-related skin problems skin conditions associated with treatment modalities for melanoma.