About Tony Pearce

About Tony Pearce RN AACNEM - Specialist Trichologist and State Registered Nurse.

Tony Pearce is a specialist trichologist* and registered nurse. His professional area of interest is female hair loss from nutritional-metabolic-hormonal or autoimmune disturbance.

Tony’s expertise in this field is (in large part) due to the on-going mentoring of Mr. Arthur Chan - Research Pharmacist, Dr. Phillip Van Zanden (UNSW) and the Doctor whose research everybody follows - Dr. John Lee.

Tony Pearce was the first to identify two forms of androgenic alopecia in women – true genetically-inherited type, and ‘acquired’ androgenic alopecia from metabolic/hormonal compensatory mechanisms.

Children and adolescents presenting with Alopecia areata are also a significant part of Tony’s practice. His research has established food allergies (predominantly Gluten + Dairy intolerance) as a persistent trigger for Alopecia areata in young people.

Tony operates two clinics in Sydney and one in Melbourne. He also provides an informational website and online consultation service for those seeking accurate information, diagnosis and treatment - www.hairlossclinic.com.au .

Professional affiliations:

  • NSW Nurses’ + Midwives Registration Board
  • Australasian College of Nutritional + Environmental Medicine (ACNEM) -Associate Member
  • Society for Progressive Trichology (Founding Member)
  • Haircare Foundation Associate
  • Professional collaboration: Australasian Hair Transplant Institute (Dr. Johnathan Chan)

 

Tony is dedicated to having the hair loss industry regulated through a compulsory Trichology qualification standard and governing body.

 

 

*A qualified Trichologist has studied & successfully completed an Academic Trichology Educational Program (The Trichological Society, UK)

Tony Pearce – specialist trichologist and registered nurse.Tony Pearce – Blogger

Hi!! This is Tony Pearce, and WELCOME to my world!!

You don’t know me but I’m a baby boomer whose childhood spanned the 50’s & ‘teenaged’ on through the 60’s! I jinxed school & fare-evaded a suburban train – it wasn’t called City Rail then – to see the Beatles at their McLeay Street, Potts Point Hotel on that rain-soaked winter’s day in 1964!

So this whole ‘Blog’ thing truly is a strange phenomenon to me (and what does “Blog” mean anyway??). I still wonder over the marvelous technology that is the internet - bringing people from around the world into my office to consult with me or ask for my opinion on this or that trichology issue! But to this “slider” from an Australia of another time, it’s a bit like writing a letter to your Nanna or school-friend during the Christmas holidays – lot’s to ‘waffle-on’ about, but nothing of which is particularly profound!

I’ve already discovered my Blog allows me to be quite self-indulgent - I’ll attempt to keep that in check as best I can! However in the area I decided to specialise – female hair loss from hormonal-nutritional-metabolic disturbance – things move quickly indeed. And my professional passion for this is such, that as I come to learn about it I want you to know also…

No doubt too I’ll often be on my soapbox ‘raging & railing’ over untrained hair loss ‘quacks’ that still are be able to get away with promising guaranteed ‘miracles’ if you’re willing to part with thousands of dollars!

I believe I’ve experienced enough of life in the past 57 years to have an opinion! I see my Blog as the perfect medium to do just this … ‘social comment & Be Damned’ as the saying goes! My other hedonistic venture is to write a book on politics (from a Baby Boomer’s perspective of course!)