Honorary Professor Amanda Oakley

Amanda Oakley was a Bristol graduate and first worked at Waikato Hospital as a house surgeon and medical registrar. She trained as a dermatologist in Auckland, London and Durham (UK) and returned to Waikato as a consultant in 1987. She is the senior Dermatologist and Head of the Department of Dermatology at Te Whatu Ora Waikato. Amanda — a founder of DermNet NZ — was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2018 for her services to dermatology.
Amanda is passionate about the Internet and its use for diagnostic teledermatology, medical education and consumer health education — and now the opportunity to recruit artificial intelligence to improve equity of access to specialist dermatological care. She is an honorary member of MelNet. 

Professor Cliff Rosendahl

Cliff Rosendahl is a general practitioner of over 50 years’ experience, with a background in rural and metropolitan general practice and forensic medicine. Over the last two decades his clinical and academic focus has transitioned from generalist general practice to the early diagnosis of skin cancer and melanoma. He has collaborated with colleagues in Brisbane and Vienna to research the early diagnosis of melanoma and together they have published and disseminated the diagnostic algorithms Chaos and Clues and Prediction without Pigment. Cliff is a professor at the University of Queensland, Australia and a ‘Distinguished Visiting Professor’ at Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran. He has published over 110 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and co-authored two textbooks on skin cancer diagnostics, published in 9 and 4 languages respectively.