AN ONLINE CLINIC ON SKIN CANCER & SUN SAFETY
Patient support charity SCKIN (The Karen Clifford Skin Cancer charity) has teamed up with NHS Choices and talkhealth to present an Online Clinic on Skin Cancer & Sun Safety.
Clinical experts will be available to answer all your questions about issues surrounding skin cancer & sun safety. Offering advice on ways to protect your skin from the harmful sun rays, what to do if you think you are at risk of skin cancer and also to provide you with valuable help and guidance.
Our experts have a wealth of knowledge and information they can share with you. From 22 - 28 July 2011 you can post the questions that you would like our panel of experts to comment on, and enter into discussions with the experts. If you would like to be sent a reminder the day the clinic goes live just click here.
Professor John Hawk BSc MD FRCP FRACP Emeritus Professor and recent Head of the Photobiology Unit, St John’s Institute of Dermatology, St Thomas’ Hospital and King’s College, London, UK, John Hawk studied at St Mary’s and Guy’s Hospitals, London and at Harvard Medical School, Boston. Professor John Hawk was a founder in 1988 of the British Photodermatology Group, and a founding member of the American Photomedicine Society and is still on both of these committees. He is currently President of the European Society for Photodermatology and Congress President of the World Congress on Cancers of the Skin. He has written multiple scientific papers, book chapters and books, and was formerly editor of the journal, Clinical and Experimental Dermatology.
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Professor Brian Diffey Emeritus Professor of Photobiology, Dermatological Sciences - Newcastle University, Brian Diffey is also an international authority on sun protection. Professor Diffey has a wealth of experience in the field of suncare particularly within the area of skin photobiology and the measurement of human exposure to natural and artificial ultraviolet radiation, its effects in normal and diseased skin, and environmental and behavioural aspects of sun exposure. |
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Dr Neil Shroff Dr Neil Shroff is a partner GP at Keyworth Health Centre Nottingham. His special interest is in skin cancer, working closely with Consultant Dermatologists. He also runs the Principia Community Dermatological Service from the Keyworth Health Centre. Dr Shroff qualified in 1995 at Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School where he initially trained in surgery, specialising in plastic survery. He also has a diploma in Clinical Dermatology (Barts & London).
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Dr Andrew Wright BMedSCi LRCP MRCS MB ChB FRCP Dr Andrew Wright has been a Consultant Dermatologist at Bradford teaching hopspital NHS trust since 1990. He was trained at Edinburgh and Sheffied and qualified at Sheffield in1981. |
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