Professor Rodney Sinclair

Biography

Professor Rodney Sinclair is Professor of Dermatology at the University of Melbourne and Director of Epworth Dermatology.  He is Past-President of the Australasian Society for Dermatology Research, the Australasian Hair and Wool Research Society and the Skin and Cancer Foundation of Victoria. Prof Sinclair is the co-author of the section on Dermatology in the Oxford Textbook of Medicine, Rook’s Textbook of Dermatology and Bologna’s Dermatology.  He is lead author of Therapeutic Guidelines- Dermatology and has over 500 research publications. Prof Sinclair convened the World Congress of Cosmetic Dermatology in Melbourne in 2006 and the World Congress of Hair Research in Cairns in 2010.   He also convened the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australasian Society for Dermatology research each year from 1999-2012.  He is Secretary General of the International Society of Dermatology Congress scheduled to be held In Melbourne in 2021. In 2012 Professor Sinclair published an article on Skin Cancer prevalence and cost  in Australia in the Medical Journal of Australia that triggered a Commonwealth House of Representatives Parliamentary enquiry entitled Skin Cancer in Australia: Our National Cancer that reported in 2015.

Research Interest

Dermatology and skin care