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Dr. Ian Coulson BSc., M.B., B.S., F.R.C.P. Consultant Dermatologist |
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BiographyAfter schooling in Durham City, Dr. Coulson qualified in Medicine in 1978 from St. Thomas’s Hospital Medical School London, and commenced training in dermatology after gaining higher qualifications in general internal medicine in 1981. After working at the national skin hospital, St. John’s Hospital for Diseases of the Skin in London, he had posts as Registrar and Senior Registrar at St. George’s Hospital in South London. During this period he was awarded the Registrars’ Prize by St. John’s Hospital Dermatological Society in 1986. He had research interests in the mechanisms of inflammation in atopic eczema and wrote many clinical research papers. He commenced Consultant practice in North East Lancashire in 1990, and has broad interests in all areas of clinical dermatology and skin surgery. He is skin cancer network chairman for the North Lancashire, South Cumbria area. He has lectured widely and regularly presents research material both at the American Academy of Dermatology and British Association of Dermatologists Annual meetings. He was awarded jointly the Bristol Cup prize for best poster presentation in 2006, and silver prize in 1999 at the BAD. He co-edited a new text book of dermatological treatment, entitled “Treatment of Skin Disease” published in 2002, and this became global dermatology best seller in 2004; the book is already into its second edition. He is therapy section editor of the British Journal of Dermatology. He is President elect of the Dowling Club (tenure summer 2007-8), a national foundation for dermatology trainees with an international membership. His GMC number is 2460374. |
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