Dr. Dedee Murrell

Professor Dedee Murrell is Chair of the Department of Dermatology at St George Hospital, University of NSW, in Sydney, Australia, since 2004. She was born in England, of mixed Irish and English heritage. She completed medical training at Cambridge and Oxford Universities, 3 years of internal medicine in the UK (Oxford & Cambridge) and USA (Duke), dermatology training at UNC-Chapel Hill mentored by Drs R.Alan Briggaman, Edward J O'Keefe, Ray Gammon, Jo-David Fine and Nancy Thomas, a fellowship in dermatopharmacology at Duke with Elise Olsen, blistering diseases and cell biology at New York University (Howard Hughes Fellow), and an NIH Physician-Scientist funded clinical scholar at Rockefeller University in the Krueger Lab, focussing on psoriasis and epidermolysis bullosa (EB). She holds a doctorate on the pathogenesis of blistering disorders, her main subspecialty interest, and her current research focusses on the development and validation of clinical outcome measures for EB and autoimmune blistering diseases to enable clinical trials to proceed in these orphan diseases.