Amanda Oakley

Amanda Margaret Meredith Oakley CNZM is a New Zealand-based dermatologist, specialising in melanoma research and teledermatology. She is a founder and former editor-in-chief of DermNet.

Amanda Oakley CNZM
Oakley in 2018
Years active	1987–present
Known for	Founder of DermNet NZ
Medical career
Profession	Dermatology
Institutions	Waikato Hospital

Medical career

Oakley graduated from the University of Bristol in 1979, and completed postgraduate studies in Auckland, London and Durham before emigrating to New Zealand. She has been a practicing dermatologist at Waikato Hospital since 1987.^[1]

In 1995, Oakley and a group of New Zealand dermatologists created DermNet, a medical resource site focused on dermatology.^[2] Oakley learned how to code and programme to create the website, which was made to be a source of information for dermatologists and patients.^[3] DermNet was registered as a charitable trust in 2013.^[4]

Oakley has been the Clinical Director of the Department of Dermatology of the Waikato District Health Board, and currently teaches as an Honorary and Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Auckland's Waikato Clinical Campus.^[5] Oakley was the president of both the New Zealand Dermatological Society and the Australian and New Zealand Vulvovaginal Society from 2011 to 2013.^[6]

Honours

In March 2017, Oakley won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the New Zealand Charity Technology Awards for her tenure as creator and editor-in-chief of DermNet.^[7]

In November 2017, DermNet won the New Zealand Ministry of Health's Clinician's Challenge in the active project/development category for the proposal to train artificial intelligence software to recognise skin diseases in images through pattern recognition.^[8]

In the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours, Oakley was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to dermatology.^[9]

Selected publications

• Teledermatology. CRC Press (2002).
• Dermatology Made Easy. Great Britain: Scion Publishing Ltd (2017).

References

1. "New Zealand Dermatological Society Incorporated". Retrieved 26 March 2019.
2. "Queen's Birthday Honours for Amanda Oakley – Telehealth NZ". Retrieved 26 March 2019.
3. "Health Central — Saving skin: founding the world's best dermatology website". Retrieved 3 December 2019.
4. "Queen's Birthday Honours 2018 – Citations for Companions of the New Zealand Order of Merit". 4 June 2018. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
5. "Dr Amanda Oakley, of Hamilton, CNZM for services to dermatology – Office of the New Zealand Governor General". Retrieved 26 March 2019.
6. "eMedEvents Speakers – Amanda Margaret Meredith Oakley". Retrieved 28 May 2019.
7. ""Dr Amanda Oakley takes out TechSoup's Lifetime Service Award" – Scoop.co.nz". Retrieved 26 March 2019.
8. "Innovation reigns supreme in this year's Clinician's Challenge — Ministry of Health". Retrieved 15 April 2019.
9. "Queen's Birthday honours 2018 – citations for Companions of the New Zealand Order of Merit". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 4 June 2018. Retrieved 26 March 2019.