Our Mission
Our Mission
The Australasian Blistering Diseases Foundation (ABDF) is dedicated to providing information and support to patients with rare auto-immune and hereditary blistering diseases. Being diagnosed with a rare, life-threatening and incurable disease can be quite frightening for patients and their families. Our aim is to assist patients and their families to deal with this fear by helping them to understand their disease through education sessions and seminars, to provide support through discussion groups and forums as well as advice on living with the disease. The ABDF also funds valuable research into the cause, diagnosis and treatment of blistering diseases and is an advocate for increasing public awareness and educating health care professionals on this rare group of diseases.
Professor Dedee F Murrell
MA(Cambridge), BMBCh(Oxford), FAAD(USA, MD(UNSW), FACD, FRCP (Edin), DSc (Oxford) Head of Department, Senior Staff Specialists Dermatologist, St George Hospital, Conjoint Professor, University of NSW Professor Fellow, The George Intsitute for Global Health, Sydney
“Professor Murrell is a gem amongst Australia's Dermatologists - her professionalism and dedication to healing her patients is a rare find. She has solved a very complex case for my mother and we are all extremely grateful for her services. If there is an award for overall best doctor and practice Professor Dedee Murrell should be given that award.”
“I still regard Prof Murrell as one of the best doctors I’ve ever encountered, I will always appreciate her as both a caring physician and great human.”