Past Events
BSMD and Royal College of Physicians Day
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The BSMD Medical Dermatology Day, held annually in collaboration with the Royal College of Physicians, brings together dermatologists for a day of expert clinical insights. Featuring invited lectures from specialists in the field, each meeting combines essential updates in medical dermatology with in-depth exploration of a focused theme.
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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 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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