Professor Joel G. DeKoven 

Dr Joel DeKoven is a Consultant Dermatologist and Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto, Canada. His clinical subspecialty interest focuses on the diagnosis and management of allergic contact dermatitis and the evaluation of complex allergic and work-related skin disease. Dr DeKoven is currently a consultant in the Division of Dermatology at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, and the Occupational Disease Specialty program at St. Michael’s Hospital. For over a decade, he was the Director of the Dermatology Residency Training Program at the University of Toronto.

Dr DeKoven earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and his medical degree from the University of Manitoba. He worked as a full-time emergency physician in Winnipeg and then completed residencies  in both public health and preventative medicine and dermatology at the University of Toronto. He has specialty designations from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in both disciplines and is a Fellow of the American Board of Dermatology. As part of his training in public health, he obtained a Masters Degree of Health Sciences in community health and epidemiology. Subsequently, he was the AIDS physician for the City of Toronto Department of Public Health.

Dr. DeKoven is the current President of the North American Contact Dermatitis Group (2019 – ), a member of the Centre for Research Expertise in Occupational Medicine at the University of Toronto and is a consultant for the Workers Safety and Insurance Board of Ontario. He has served on the Board of Directors of the American Contact Dermatitis Society. Nationally, he has been the President of the Canadian Contact Dermatitis Society and is currently a member of expert advisory panels  of the Canadian Dermatology Association (Skin Health Program Expert, Sun Protection Program Expert).