Kenji Sato

Kenji Sato is a Japanese dermatologist at Hannan Chuo Hospital who has run topical-steroid-free care, including inpatient steroid withdrawal, for atopic dermatitis since the 1990s. Social media credits him with No Moisture Therapy, which Zhu et al. (Cureus 2025) describe as a regimen withdrawing both steroids and moisturisers that “has not been rigorously tested”. He co-authored the Fukaya et al. 2016 cohort of steroid-free care, in which emollients were still allowed.

Connections

• No Moisture Therapy — credited originator of NMT, source: Zhu Cureus 2025