Assoc Prof Rosemary Nixon (Dermatologist)
- Name
- Assoc Prof Rosemary Louise Nixon AM
- Qualifications
- Bachelor of Medicine / Bachelor of Surgery Monash University Australia 1981
- Occupation
- Dermatologist
- Occupational and Environmental Medicine Specialist
- Gender
- Female
- Languages Spoken
- English
- Medical Specialties
- Occupational and Environmental Medicine
- Phone
- 03 8414 9995
- Fax
- 03 8414 9996
Associate Professor Rosemary Nixon AM qualified as a Fellow of the Australasian College of Dermatologists in 1988, and has worked in general dermatology since then. She is additionally qualified in occupational medicine, and holds the distinction of being the only person to have Australian qualifications in both dermatology and occupational medicine. She completed all her degrees at Monash University and trained predominantly at Prince Henry’s Hospital, at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and at St Johns Hospital for Diseases of the Skin in London.
She was Unit Head, Dermatology at Monash Medical Centre from 1991 to 2001 and a Visiting Dermatologist at Southern Health until 2017. She started Australia’s first Occupational Dermatology Clinic in 1993. In 2001, she established the Occupational Dermatology Research and Education Centre (ODREC), a small research group working in the area of occupational dermatology, at the Skin and Cancer Foundation, which has been recently renamed as the Skin Health Institute.
She divides her time between the Occupational Dermatology Clinic at the Skin Health Institute, ODREC and her practice in general dermatology which recently relocated from East Melbourne/Fitzroy to Heidelberg Dermatology.
She has published over 170 scientific papers, numerous book chapters and is a member of the prestigious International Contact Dermatitis Research Group, representing Australasia.
Her many roles for the Australasian College of Dermatologists have included Councillor 1997-2000; member, Victorian Faculty Executive 1994-2013; examiner 2006-2011; Chair, Victorian Faculty 2011-2013 and currently spokesperson on contact dermatitis. She has been a Board Member of the Skin and Cancer Foundation from 1989-2000 and from 2008 on and is currently President of the Skin Health Institute. The Skin Health Institute is a not-for-profit tertiary referral sub-specialty dermatology centre based in Carlton.
In 2010, she was appointed Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Monash University and in 2012 she was appointed Honorary Clinical Associate Professor, University of Melbourne, Department of Medicine, St Vincent’s Hospital. In 2017, she was honoured with membership of the Order of Australia, for "significant service to community health in the field of occupational dermatology, as an academic and researcher, and to professional standards."
- Affiliated Clinics
- Heidelberg Dermatology
- Skin Health Institute
- Affiliated Organisations
- Australasian College of Dermatologists (ACD)
- Affiliated Universities
- University of Melbourne
- Monash University
- Topics
- Occupational dermatitis
- Contact dermatitis
Practice Locations
Melbourne
- Heidelberg Dermatology
- Address
- 5 Burgundy Street
Heidelberg VIC 3084
Australia
- Phone
- 03 8414 9995
- Fax
- 03 8414 9996
