Meet our experts!

Tess is a Clinical Nutritionist and holistic skin specialist supporting individuals navigating eczema and TSW through personalised, root-cause nutrition, functional testing, and gut health strategies designed to promote skin healing from within. Through her virtual clinic, she works with clients worldwide to identify and address underlying drivers of chronic skin inflammation, guiding sustainable, long-term skin health. Tess is also a peer-reviewed researcher and published author on nutritional approaches to skin health, integrating clinical practice with scientific research to deliver evidence-based care.

Michelle is the founder of Empowered Eczema taking a different approach to healing. After naturally overcoming her biggest flare at 22 years old through diet, supplements, and overall lifestyle transformation she now helps people do the same. She has a “listen to your body” approach. 

Sienna is the creator of Where It’s Soft, offering nervous-system-informed meditations specifically for those navigating Topical Steroid Withdrawal. With lived experience of TSW and a background in psychology, she brings an understanding of how stress and hypervigilance impacts the body physically. 

She shares hope from the other side of healing and aims to create a soft place to land while your body finds its way back there itself. Her work focuses on calming the nervous system, meeting yourself with kindness, and helping recovery feel possible and supported.

Prof.SandipanDhar is an internationally acclaimed dermatologist and a pioneer in Pediatric Dermatology and Atopic Dermatitis in India. Currently he is the Professor and Head of Pediatric Dermatology at the Institute of Child Health, Kolkata.With over three & half decades of clinical, academic, and research experience, he has made landmark contributions to pediatric dermatology and eczema or atopic dermatitis, including being the principal investigator of India’s first long-term & robust cohort study on pediatric atopic dermatitis. Dr.Dhar has authored more than 325 scientific publications and five books, including India’s first textbook on Pediatric Dermatology and contributed chapters in more than 60 books in dermatology.

He has served as Chief Editor of leading dermatology journals and played a key role in their international indexing. Founder of the Society for Eczema Studies (2022), he continues to advance research,education, and patient care across India and globally. A sought-after international speaker, he has delivered over 320 lectures in India and more than 120 lectures worldwide and has received numerous prestigious awards for his contributions to dermatology.

He has been the Vice President & Chairman, Mentorship Committee of International Society of Pediatric Dermatology. He has also been the Councilor & member of the Education & Research Committee of International Eczema Council(IEC), USA , Steering Committee Member of Global Atopic Dermatitis Atlas(GADA), London and Scientific Member, SPIN, France.