A/Prof Foley is a Dermatologist in Melbourne. He is the Director of Research at the Skin Health Institute and the Head of Dermatology Research at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne. He is a visiting medical officer to the Photobiology, Dermatology Biologics, and Dermatology Investigation clinics at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne and the Phototherapy, Atopic Dermatitis, and Psoriasis Advanced Targeted Therapies clinics at the Skin Health Institute.
A/Prof Foley is an international thought leader in the use of biologic agents. He has been an investigator in over 180 clinical trials and has over 200 published manuscripts.
He has been a councillor on the International Psoriasis Council (IPC) since 2012, is a founding member of the Australasian Psoriasis Collaboration, and is a former steering committee member of the Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis (GRAPPA), now a member of GRAPPA Treatment Recommendations – Psoriasis Workgroup.
He currently holds leadership positions in the following groups:
- The Australasian Dermatology Registry
- The Australian Psoriasis Treatment Goals and Australian Atopic Dermatitis Management Consensus,
- The Asia-Pacific Management of Generalized Pustular Psoriasis Consensus,
- The Modified Delphi Panel for Psoriasis Management in APAC
- The Asia Pacific Rare Diseases Symposium
- The Treat-to-Target in Atopic Dermatitis International Consensus
- The My Psoriatic Arthritis Expert Advisory Group
- The International Dermatology Outcome Measures (IDEOM) Psoriatic Arthritis Musculo-Skeletal Symptoms workgroup.