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Dermatologist
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Dr Ian Coulson is a Consultant Dermatologist with broad interests in all areas of clinical dermatology and skin surgery. He commenced consultant practice in East Lancashire in 1990 and was skin cancer network chairman for the Lancashire and South Cumbria area between 2005 - 2010. He has local responsibility for the investigation or contact and industrial dermatitis and co-writes the UK investigation guidelines.
Dr Ian Coulson qualified in medicine in 1978 from St Thomas's Hospital Medical School London. He 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 a 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 has written over 80 clinical and research papers.
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 is enthusiastic about the teaching of dermatology and has produced a nationally used e-learning module covering the core undergraduate medical curriculum, as well as practical patient information material available on YouTube, and is an editor of the "e-learning for health dermatology" section. He co-edited a new textbook of dermatological treatment, entitled ‘Treatment of Skin Disease' published in 2002 and this became the global dermatology bestseller in 2004. He was therapy section editor of the British Journal of Dermatology between 2004 and 2009. He wrote 3 chapters for the internationally renowned Rook's Textbook of Dermatology.
He is past president of the North of England Dermatological Society, and the Dowling Club, an international skin disease educational foundation, and is the current treasurer for the British Society for Medical Dermatology.
Diseases, Medical Tests and TreatmentsGeneral Medical Council
No. 2460374
Primary Medical Qualification:
MB BS 1978 University of London
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