About Tony Pearce

‘The Duality of Me…’

Anthony Pearce – Specialist Trichologist

Tony Pearce RN is a specialist trichologist and a registered nurse.

Tony is the Clinical Director of National Trichology Services in Australia & Trichology of Virginia/DC in the United States.

From the mid 1980’s Tony pursued a nursing management career path in areas as diverse as Military Health, Private Hospital Day Surgery, & Drug/Alcohol Rehabilitation. Together with his psychiatric nursing qualifications, his experience gained in these sundry fields has given Tony immeasurable skills for relating to people from all walks of life.

In the 1990’s Tony successfully completed a Trichology Educational Program – achieving the highest-ever finals mark to that time. For that endeavor he was awarded the 1998 TAFE NSW Industry Award for Trichology.

Tony Pearce is the only consulting trichologist from a hospital-trained healthcare background – in Australia most trichologists are hairdressers. This affords him a more thorough understanding of the numerous issues affecting hair loss or scalp problems, which can vary from the simple to the medically serious – utterly testing the diagnostic skills of any practitioner. By his select use of detailed investigative testing and “condition-specific” treatments, Tony has now largely overcome the hit or miss dilemma associated with most other therapies.

Tony Pearce is acknowleged as Australia’s leading Specialist for women’s hair loss issues (Private survey of Doctors, Hairdressers & women seeking treatment – 2006). His clinical research 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. Tony Pearce is Analytical Reference Laboratory’s (ARL) official lecturer on Hormone Imbalance & Hair Loss issues.

Finally, Tony practices trichology in close association with leading authorities in hormonal balance (endocrinology), & bio-stimulating laser light therapy. He pioneered Class 3 laser therapy in clinical practice within Australia. His friend & mentor, Mr. Arthur Chan, is a world leader in hair loss research.

Tony’s professional affiliations include:

• Registered Nurse (Nurses and Midwives Board of NSW)
• Founding Member – Society for Progressive Trichology

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 IT-‘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 54 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 – a chapter at a time – and post it on my Blog.