Past Events
BSMD and Royal College of Physicians Day
The list of themes in order for the last 11 years
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​2015 - British Society for Skin Care in Immunocompromised Individuals
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2016 - British Association of Dermatologists Dermatology & Genetic Medicine (BADGEM) & Dermatogenetics
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2017 - British Society for Rheumatology (BSR)
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2018 - Complex medical dermatology: neutrophilic and pustular diseases
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2019 - Advanced Medical Dermatology with a focus on blistering disorders of the skin.
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2020 – Acute and Emergency Dermatology
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2021 – Management of Long Term Dermatoses
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2022 – Mucosal Disease / COVID and the skin
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2023 – Granulomatous Skin Disease
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2024 – Infections and the Skin
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2025 - Clinical cases and clinical pearls from specialist medical dermatology clinics over the UK
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The Rheumatology day agenda last time
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09:00 – 09:20 Registration, Refreshments & Exhibition
09:20 – 09:30 Introduction & Welcome - Prof Jane Dacre (President RCP) & Dr Nick Levell (President BAD)
Session 1:
09:30 – 10:00 The Tube is inflamed: Vasculitis - Dr Nick Levell: Norwich
10:00 – 10:30 Dermatomyositis - Dr Daniel Creamer: London
10:30 -11:00 Lupus and the skin: complexity, traps for the unwary and new treatments - Prof David D’Cruz: London
11:00 – 11:45 Refreshments, Posters & Exhibition
Session 2:
11:45 – 12:15 How histology can help diagnose inflammatory disease - Dr Eduardo Calonje: London
12:15 – 12:45 3 Case Presentations by Trainees
12:45 – 13:15 AGM British Society for Medical Dermatology
12:45 – 13:45 Lunch, Posters & Exhibition
Session 3:
13:45 – 14:15 Psoriasis Prof Catherine Smith
14:15 – 14:45 Confronting the concept of psoriatic disease - Prof Phillip Helliwell: Leeds
14:45 – 15:15 Behcet’s disease - Prof Robert J Moots: Liverpool
15:15 – 15:50 Refreshments & Exhibition
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Session 4: Chairs: Prof Jane Dacre (President RCP) & Prof Simon Bowman (Immediate Past President BSR)
15:50 – 16:20 Scleroderma - Prof Emma Derrett-Smith: Birmingham
16:20 – 16:50 Parkes Weber Lecture, Paediatric connective tissue diseases - Dr Cameron Kennedy: Bristol
16:50 – 17:00 Prizes for Posters & Presentations and Evaluation - Prof Jane Dacre (President RCP) & Prof Simon Bowman (Immediate Past President BSR)
17:00 Close
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The list of Named lectures
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Parkes Weber trust
Lecturers since 2000
2000 Prof JL Rees: Post-genome integrative biology: so that’s what they call it
2003 Dr MHA Rustin: Atopic dermatitis – new concepts in pathogenesis and treatment
2007 Prof CEM Griffiths: From undercover to front cover – psoriasis revealed
2009 Prof FT Wojnarowska:  Blisters and basement membranes
2012 Prof EA O’Toole: What cell biology can tell us about genetic skin disease
2014 Dr S Whittaker: Malignant T cells in the skin
2016 Prof J Barker: Saving the Singing Detective
2017 Dr C Kennedy: Paediatric connective tissue diseases
2019 Prof J McGrath: Medical therapy for genetic blistering diseases
2021 Prof A Irvine: Atopic Dermatitis-Mechanistic Insights and New Therapies
2023 Prof S Langan: How large scale electronic health record databases can help improve clinical care for inflammatory skin diseases
2025 Dr Sally Ibbotson: Photosensitivity diseases and Photodiagnostics – how far have we got?
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John Thornton Ingram lecture
Lecturers since 2000
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2000 Dr RPR Dawber: Don’t forget the nail
2001 Dr C Bunker: The diagnosis of melanoma
2004 Prof H Williams: Dermatology needs assessment, needs assessment
2010 Prof PS Mortimer:  Lympho-vascular medicine: a new speciality?
2011 Dr MJD Goodfield: Cutaneous lupus: subsets, scarring and lessons from the laboratory
2013 Prof C Moss: A fresh look at the neurocutaneous disorders
2015 Prof C Bunker: HIV Dermatology in the Era of cART
2018 Prof D Burden: Pustular psoriasis
2020 Dr J Sterling Its probably just a virus
2022 Prof G Ogg: Prospects of targeting CD1a for the treatment of skin disease
2024 Prof Michael Ardern-Jones: Atopic dermatitis: past, present
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