Lecturers
All our lecturers are internationally known specialists working in Paediatric Dermatology and Dermatology. To see which lecturers speak on which courses see individual courses.
Dr Alex Barnacle
Alex Barnacle is a paediatric IR at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, the largest paediatric IR unit in Europe and one of the busiest in the world. Originally from Zimbabwe, she trained in the UK and Australia and has been at Great Ormond Street Hospital since 2003. Her main clinical interests are vascular anomalies, renal stone disease and interventional oncology. She has served as President of the Society for Pediatric Interventional Radiology (SPIR). She sits on various committees within the UK Royal College of Radiologists, CIRSE and BSIR, and founded the UK’s Paediatric IR UK platform. She has worked alongside a team in Sri Lanka over several years to develop a national paediatric IR service there and is passionate about the promotion and development of IR for children in all parts of the world.
Dr Eulalia Baselga
Department of Dermatology, Hospital Sant Joan de Deu, Barcelona, Spain
Eulalia Baselga is currently the Head of Dermatology at the Hospital Sant Joan de Deu, Children’s Hospital and Associate Professor, Universitat de Barcelona. She coordinates a European Referral Center for Vascular anomalies and the Vascular Multidiciplinary clinic at Hospital Sant Joan de Deu.
Her main area of research are hemangiomas and vascular anomalies. She is currently PI in a research grant on genotype, phenotype and clinical outcomes in vascular lesions.
Dr. Baselga has authored over 160 articles in International journals and over 17 chapters in books. She is member of the Spanish Society for Paediatric Dermatology, American Academy of Dermatology, American Dermatologic Association, Society for Pediatric Dermatology, , Sociedad Latinoamericana de Dermatologia Pediatrica and in the board of the European Academy of Paediatric Dermatology. She is on the editorial board of Actas Dermo-Sifilogáoficas, and Pediatric Dermatology. She is in the Scientific Committee of ISSVA
Dr Nigel Burrows
Dr Nigel Burrows is a consultant dermatologist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. After his postgraduate training he completed an MD in Cambridge on the Molecular Genetics of the Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS). He runs a genodermatoses clinic with a special interest in the Inherited Disorders of Connective Tissue. He is a past President and Secretary of the BSPD. He is a Medical Advisor for the two UK EDS patient support groups, a committee member of the International EDS consortium and Chair of the International EDS skin working group. He has written the book chapters on Inherited Disorders of Connective Tissue for Rook’s Textbook of Dermatology, Harper’s Textbook of Pediatric Textbook, Dermatology (Bolognia) and the Oxford Textbook of Medicine.
Dr Hiva Fassihi
MA MD FRCP
Dr Hiva Fassihi is a Consultant Dermatologist and the Clinical Lead for the National XP Service at St John’s Institute of Dermatology, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust. She is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at King’s College London and has a strong background in translational research. She has expertise in skin cancers and photoprotection, photodermatology, paediatric dermatology and genetic skin disorders.
Prof Ilona Frieden
Ilona Frieden is a Professor of Pediatrics and Dermatology. Until July 2018 she was chief of the Division of Pediatric Dermatology at the University of California, San Francisco, where she has been a faculty member for nearly 40 years. She has a career-long interest in infantile hemangiomas and helped chair and co-author the American Academy of Pediatrics hemangioma clinical practice guidelines. She has won numerous awards includingMentor of the year and the Rose Hirschler award from the Women’s Dermatological Society, the Thomas Pearson Memorial award of the American Academy of Dermatology, the Dermatology Foundation’s Lifetime Career Educator Award, and the Alvin Jacobs Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics. She has been President of the Society for Pediatric Dermatology, President of the American Board of Dermatology and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Dermatology, and is currently Past-President of the International Society for the Study of Vascular Anomalies and President of the Pediatric Dermatology Research Alliance. For 12 years she was co-editor-in-chief of the journal, Pediatric Dermatology. She has authored more than 300 articles and numerous book chapters.
Dr Mary Glover
Consultant Paediatric Dermatologist, Great Ormond St Hospital for Children, London
Mary Glover is consultant in Paediatric Dermatology at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH), London. She trained in medicine at Cambridge University, and then in paediatrics, dermatology and paediatric dermatology in London. She leads the complex vascular anomalies service at GOSH.
Prof Alan Irvine
Professor of Dermatology
Alan Irvine is a Consultant Dermatologist in Children’s Health Ireland and St. James’s Hospital, Dublin, and Professor of Dermatology, Trinity College Dublin. He trained in Belfast, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London and was a Fulbright Scholar in Children’s Memorial Chicago/Northwestern University. He is a recognised expert in epithelial genetics, characterisation of the skin barrier, disease mechanisms in, and therapy of atopic dermatitis. He has published more than 250 peer reviewed papers, many in high impact journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, Nature Genetics, mostly on atopic dermatitis and genetic skin disease. His international awards include the 2006 Times Higher Education Supplement Research Project of the Year and 2007 Paul Gerson Unna Prize (German Dermatology Society). He has delivered several named/prize lectureships including the MB Sulzberger (AAD, 2018), Watson-Smith (RCP Edinburgh, 2015), Dolovich (AAAAI, 2013) Lectures. Alan was an inaugural director of the International Eczema Council, an international body of experts dedicated to the study and treatment of atopic dermatitis. In 2019 he was elected to the Royal Irish Academy.
Prof Veronica Kinsler
Professor of Paediatric Dermatology and Dermatogenetics
Veronica Kinsler is Professor of Paediatric Dermatology and Dermatogenetics at Great Ormond St Hospital for Children, London. As an international expert and researcher in childrens’ skin diseases, she is invited to speak around the world in this field. She has particular expertise in naevi, other birthmarks, problems of pigmentation, rare or undiagnosed skin diseases, and genetic skin diseases. She is President of the European Society of Paediatric Dermatology 2020-2022, and President of the World Congress of Paediatric Dermatology in 2021. She has appeared on BBC News, Sky News, BBC Radio 4 and ITV This Morning, talking about childrens’ skin diseases.
Dr Anna Martinez
Consultant Paediatric Dermatologist, Great Ormond St Hospital for Children, London
Dr Anna Martinez is a senior consultant in Paediatric Dermatology Great Ormond Street Hospital and Honorary Senior Lecturer at The Institute of Child Health, University College London. Anna trained at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and was appointed as a Consultant in Paediatric Dermatology January 2003. Since her appointment Anna has led the Nationally Commissioned Service for Epidermolysis Bullosa. Anna is a major contributor to research as Chief Investigator and Principal Investigator on a rolling programme of clinical trials into novel therapies in paediatric dermatology.
Prof John McGrath
Professor of Molecular Dermatology
John McGrath is Professor of Molecular Dermatology and head of the Genetic Skin Disease Group. He is also an honorary Consultant Dermatologist for the Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. He qualified from Guy’s Hospital in 1985, and trained in dermatology and dermatopathology at St John’s Institute of Dermatology in London. His research background is in electron microscopy and molecular biology. He is a recent President of the European Society for Dermatological Research and currently serves on the editorial board of 9 international journals, including being the section editor for genetics for the Journal of Investigative Dermatology. Since August 2018, he has been the Head of St John’s Institute of Dermatology.
Dr Tess McPherson
Dr Tess McPherson is consultant dermatologist and clinical senior lecturer in Oxford university hospital where she runs the paediatric services and a specialist adolescent skin clinic. Her specialist interests are adolescent dermatology and patient experiences, education and information. She is an executive committee member of the BSPD and BADBIR and lead clinician on the skins section of patient experiences site healthtalk.org. She is currently writing a book for young people with skin conditions – ‘comfortable in your skin’ to be published 2021 OUP.
Prof Jemima Mellerio
Professor of Dermatology, St John’s Institute of Dermatology, Guys and St Thomas’ hospital, London.
Prof Jemima Mellerio trained in dermatology in South London at St John’s Institute of Dermatology and King’s College Hospital. Undertaking her MD at St John’s Institute on Genotype-Phenotype Correlations in Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) sparked an interest in genetic skin fragility disorders that has endured. She has been a consultant dermatologist since 2003 and is based at St John’s Institute of Dermatology, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, London where she is Chief of Dermatology and leads the Adult Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) Service which provides clinical care for around 500 individuals with EB. She also worked as the dermatologist to the Paediatric EB Service at Great Ormond Street Hospital for almost 15 years until recently. Jemima’s clinical interests are EB, Mendelian genodermatoses, and general paediatric dermatology. She has established a large tertiary referral service at St John’s for both adults and children with genetic skin disease, overseeing the care of a large cohort of patients with ichthyosis, palmoplantar keratodermas, other disorders of keratinisation and ectodermal dysplasias. She has active clinical and laboratory research interests in many different aspects of genetic skin disease including gene discovery and phenotyping, a longitudinal prospective study in recessive dystrophic EB, and translational research of new therapies for genodermatoses including cell and gene therapy. She has published widely and lectured nationally and internationally on these areas.
Prof Edel O’Toole
Edel O’Toole is a clinical academic at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry with an active research group working on rare and common genetic skin disease biology and honorary consultant dermatologist at the Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust. She trained in Medicine at University College, Galway, Ireland, followed by general medical and dermatology training in Dublin and London. She was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow with David Woodley at Northwestern University in Chicago from 1994-1998. Her specialist clinical interests are ichthyosis and palmoplantar keratodermas. She is the current clinical lead for the British Association of Dermatologists Dermatology and Genetic Medicine network. She is Chair of the Medical Advisory Board of the Ichthyosis Support Group, is on the steering committee of Pachyonychia Project and is actively involved in 100K Genomes, a gene discovery project within the NHS.
Prof Tony Penington
Tony Penington is the Jigsaw Professor of Paediatric Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery in the University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics at the Royal Children’s Hospital. He is a specialist in the treatment of vascular anomalies, particularly vascular malformations. He oversees research in the Facial Sciences group at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and clinical research in all areas of paediatric plastic surgery including cleft lip and palate and craniofacial surgery. Until recently he was President of the International Society for the Study of Vascular Anomalies.
Dr Gabriela Petrof
Consultant Paediatric Dermatologist, Great Ormond St Hospital for Children, London
Dr Gabriela Petrof, MBBS, PhD holds a substantive Consultant post at Great Ormond street hospital where she is part of the Nationally Commissioned Highly Specialised Service of Epidermolysis Bullosa. She completed her Dermatology specialist training in London and the West Midlands and was awarded a PhD in cell therapies for the genetic condition ‘Epidermolysis Bullosa’ as part of the Genetic Skin Disease Group, King’s College London. Dr Petrof’s research led to numerous publications in high impact factor journals and presentations at national and international meetings.
Dr Satymaanasa Polubothu
Academic Paediatric Dermatologist
Maanasa Polubothu MD PhD is an academic consultant paediatric dermatologist, working and researching in the Paediatric Dermatology department of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children London. She trained in Medicine at Glasgow University, and in Paediatrics and Paediatric Dermatology in London. She undertook a laboratory research PhD in Molecular Genetics of paediatric dermatology diseases at University College London. She has won several awards for her research work, in particular into the genetics of arteriovenous malformations. She specialises in the clinical management and genetic investigation of Arteriovenous malformations and Generalised lymphatic anomalies, as well as other mosaic disorders.
Prof Dawn Siegel
Dawn Siegel, MD is a Clinical Professor in Dermatology at Stanford University. She is affiliated with Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital (LPCH) at Stanford and Stanford Hospital and Clinics (SHC). She received her medical degree from University of Wisconsin -Madison and completed her dermatology residency and pediatric dermatology fellowship at University of California San Francisco. She specializes in hemangiomas, birthmarks, vascular anomalies, and neurocutaneous syndromes. Her research interests are in hemangiomas and the related multiple congenital anomaly syndrome, PHACE (Posterior Fossa anomalies, Hemangiomas, Arterial anomalies, Cardiac defects, and Eye anomalies). She is the Director of the PHACE Syndrome Registry to study the pathogenesis and long term outcomes in PHACE.
Dr Lindsay Shaw
Consultant Paediatric Dermatologist, Bristol Children’s Hospital and Great Ormond St Hospital for Children, London
Lindsay Shaw is consultant paediatric dermatologist, dually trained and accredited in Paediatrics and in Dermatology, working in Bristol and Great Ormond St Hospital, London. Her clinical expertise is in inflammatory skin diseases, particularly morphoea/scleroderma, and vascular anomalies. She has a longstanding interest in Paediatric Dermatology training, and has contributed to the UK training curriculum for both paediatricians and dermatologists.
Dr Lea Solman
Consultant Paediatric Dermatologist
Lea Solman is a Consultant Paediatric Dermatologist at Great Ormond St Hospital for Children London. She trained in both Paediatrics and Dermatology, as well as in Paediatric Dermatology. Her specialist interest is in vascular anomalies, both in clinical practice and research, with particular expertise in infantile haemangiomas.
