TEL. 03-3353-8111
〒162-8666 8-1, Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
Located in the heart of Tokyo, the Department of Dermatology at Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital treats approximately 110 outpatients and 8 inpatients per day. Outpatients with dermatological diseases covering all areas of dermatology such as eczema and dermatitis, urticaria, skin infections, acne, collagen diseases, vasculitis, and benign and malignant skin tumors visit the Department of Dermatology. Inpatient treatment includes educational hospitalization for atopic dermatitis, herpes zoster, bullosis, skin ulcers, and dermatologic surgery. We are able to provide care in all areas of skin diseases, and have specialized outpatient clinics for atopic dermatitis, psoriasis, urticaria, collagen diseases, vasculitis, and laser aesthetics. We have about 15 doctors who are committed to providing the best and safest medical care for our patients. As a university hospital, we also provide pre- and post-graduate education, which is our mission, and focus on training the future leaders of medicine. At the same time, through research, we are striving to elucidate diseases for which etiology and treatment methods are not yet known.
Our goal is to have a sense of mission and responsibility to society as a physician, and to acquire general dermatological knowledge and skills as a dermatologist. Pre-graduate education includes lectures on general dermatology, TBL education, and hospital training. Post-graduate education includes two years of initial clinical training, followed by five years of training as medical technicians (post-graduate trainees) under the supervision of medical advisors. Our department is blessed with an abundant number of patients, enabling students to gain sufficient clinical experience in dermatology. Our training curriculum is designed to enable students to acquire sufficient clinical skills as dermatology specialists. We strive to train doctors who can continue to provide high-quality medical care at the forefront of clinical practice even after obtaining a dermatology specialty, and also to train doctors who will be involved in the education and guidance of future generations.
Our goal is to conduct research that will ultimately contribute to patient care by taking up research themes that we have noticed during our examination of patients and developing and examining them. Our research has included research on the involvement of cytokines and chemokines in atopic dermatitis, research on elucidation of the changes in epidermal structural proteins in atopic dermatitis, clinical and pathological investigation of diseases with Livedo symptoms and cutaneous arteritis, investigation on the involvement of antiphospholipid antibodies in these diseases, epidemiological investigation of skin diseases in the elderly and efficient treatment methods, development of new diagnostic methods for tinea pedis, development of assessment tools for tinea pedis in diabetic patients, etc. We are also continuing research on proof of the decrease in intercellular lipid keratinocytes involved in the deterioration of barrier function in atopic dermatitis and the mechanism of decrease, on the etiological involvement and genetic identification of bacteria involved in facial dermatitis and its treatment, on the etiology and pathogenesis of small- and medium-sized vasculitis, the mechanism of autoantibody production in autoimmune bullous diseases, and the development of an objective evaluation method for color tone in skin diseases.
Naoko Ishiguro
Jun Yamagami
Yasuko Fukuya
Yuko Takenaka
We are preparing themes such as the dynamics of facial skin diseases and bacterial flora, the dynamics of inflammatory findings due to small- and medium-sized vasculitis and the search for long-term prognosis and involvement of microorganisms, the elucidation of the pathogenesis of autoimmune bullous diseases, and the development of an objective evaluation method for color tone in skin diseases.
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〒162-8666
8-1, Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
TEL +81-3-3353-8111