About this event

  • Date and time Thu 15 May 2025 from 2:00pm to 5:30pm
  • Location Royal Society of Medicine
  • Organised by Dermatology

The clinical cases are to gain an understanding of the diagnosis and management of some of the rarer and more unusual dermatology conditions and unusual presentations of common dermatological problems. 

Benefits of attending:

  • Gain an understanding of the diagnosis and management of some of the rarer and more unusual dermatology conditions and unusual presentations of common dermatological problems.   
  • Know about recent progress in diagnostics and management of dermatological conditions.   
  • Understand the impact of skin disorders on individuals and the importance of a holistic approach to management and know about new research in dermatology. 

For those attending in person, the clinical cases will be followed by a drinks reception to facilitate networking.

Book to attend this event in person or virtually. To view the rates and agenda, please select your preference below. 

 

Attendance criteria

You can only attend this meeting if you hold a Consultant or training post, are a SAS doctor or a clinical fellow in full time dermatology. You must bring ID with you to show this. Exceptions are made for those who are Section members (by completing an additional application form) who have made significant contributions to dermatology and are of good standing in the profession.

This event will be recorded* and all registered delegates will be able to access the recording for 60 days after. The link will be distributed 3 days after the event takes place. 

 

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The Dermatology Section would like to thank our Annual Sponsors AbbVie, Almirall Ltd, Bristol Myers Squibb, Eucerin, Incyte, La Roche-Posay & Cerave, LillyPfizer, Regeneron, Sanofi and UCB Pharma Ltd for their valued support of the 2024 to 2025 Academic Programme. We would also like to thank our sponsors Galderma, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, LEO Pharma and Novartis for their support of this meeting.
Please note that none of the companies listed has had any influence or involvement over the agenda, content or organisation of the meetings.

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Agenda

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Registration, tea and coffee
Welcome and introduction

Dr Anshoo Sahota, President, Dermatology Section, Royal Society of Medicine

A sterile foreign body reaction to lemon bottle injections

Dr Alistair Ludley, Internal Medicine Trainee Year 2, Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust on behalf of Dr Sandeep Cliff, Consultant Dermatologist, Dr Irene Man, Dr Das, Consultant Dermatologist, and Dr Marsh, Consultant Dermatologist, Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

The diagnosis that explained it all

Dr Ahmed Zwain, Specialty Trainee Year 4, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust on behalf of Dr Ella Seccombe, Consultant Dermatologist, and Dr Adam Fittyan, Consultant Dermatologist, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

A Livevoid rash in a female presenting with a cerebrovascular accident (CVA) - a case of Sneddon syndrome

Dr Bethany Mitchell, Specialty Trainee Year 3, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust on behalf of Dr Angana Mitra, Consultant Dermatologist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust 

An unusual cutaneous blistering presentation of carpal tunnel syndrome

Dr Alistair Ludley, Internal Medicine Trainee Year 2, Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust on behalf of Dr Sandeep Cliff, Consultant Dermatologist, Dr Irene Man, Dr Das, Consultant Dermatologist, and Dr Marsh, Consultant Dermatologist, Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

Successful treatment of refractory dermatomyositis with upadacitinib

Dr Evangelia Vetsiou, Specialty Trainee Year 4, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust on behalf of Dr Daniel Creamer, Consultant Dermatologist, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

A case of severe paediatric toxic epidermal necrolysis with on-going chronic multi-organ complications

Dr Priyank Patel, Dermatology Specialty Trainee Year 4, West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust on behalf of Dr Aoife Howard, Dermatology Clinical Fellow, West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Dr Kapila Batta, Consultant Dermatologist, West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, and Dr Tess McPherson, Consultant Dermatologist, Oxford University Hospitals

Tea and coffee break

Live stream:
Sponsored industry presentation by Almirall Ltd
EBGLYSS
(lebrikiziumab) clinical data: What do the trials show

Sponsored industry presentation by Incyte
Opzelura: Now you can put vitiligo in the spotlight video

3 rare complications of SJS/TEN

Dr Sarah Walsh, Consultant Dermatologist, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust on behalf of Dr Sarah Walsh and Dr Daniel Creamer, Consultant Dermatologist, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Adult T cell lymphoma

Dr Carmen Hew, Specialty Trainee Year 6, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust on behalf of Dr Katharine Warburton, Consultant Dermatologist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Cutaneous lymphoid hyperplasia (B- cell pseudolymphoma)

Dr Haya Rawabdeh, Medical Training Initiative-Trust Grade Doctor, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust on behalf of Dr Philip Laws, Consultant Dermatologist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals

VEXAS syndrome

Dr Tenzin Brookes, Dermatology Junior Clinical Fellow, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust on behalf of Dr Tanya Basu, Consultant Dermatologist, Dr Jonathan Batchelor, Consultant Dermatologist, Dr Austin Kulasekararaj, Consultant Haematologist, Dr Jeanne Boissiere, Consultant Histopathologist, and Dr Vicky Gkreka, Consultant Haematologist, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

A case of melanoma secondary to germline RB1 mutation

Dr Emily Yiu Hui Ko, Clinical Fellow in Dermatology, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust on behalf of Dr Caroline Murray, Consultant Dermatologist, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

Case voting
Closing remarks
Close of meeting
Drinks reception
View the programme - Virtual

Welcome and introduction

Dr Anshoo Sahota, President, Dermatology Section, Royal Society of Medicine

A sterile foreign body reaction to lemon bottle injections

Dr Alistair Ludley, Internal Medicine Trainee Year 2, Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust on behalf of Dr Sandeep Cliff, Consultant Dermatologist, Dr Irene Man, Dr Das, Consultant Dermatologist, and Dr Marsh, Consultant Dermatologist, Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

The diagnosis that explained it all

Dr Ahmed Zwain, Specialty Trainee Year 4, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust on behalf of Dr Ella Seccombe, Consultant Dermatologist, and Dr Adam Fittyan, Consultant Dermatologist, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

A Livevoid rash in a female presenting with a cerebrovascular accident (CVA) - a case of Sneddon syndrome

Dr Bethany Mitchell, Specialty Trainee Year 3, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust on behalf of Dr Angana Mitra, Consultant Dermatologist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust 

An unusual cutaneous blistering presentation of carpal tunnel syndrome

Dr Alistair Ludley, Internal Medicine Trainee Year 2, Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust on behalf of Dr Sandeep Cliff, Consultant Dermatologist, Dr Irene Man, Dr Das, Consultant Dermatologist, and Dr Marsh, Consultant Dermatologist, Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

Successful treatment of refractory dermatomyositis with upadacitinib

Dr Evangelia Vetsiou, Specialty Trainee Year 4, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust on behalf of Dr Daniel Creamer, Consultant Dermatologist, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

A case of severe paediatric toxic epidermal necrolysis with on-going chronic multi-organ complications

Dr Priyank Patel, Dermatology Specialty Trainee Year 4, West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust on behalf of Dr Aoife Howard, Dermatology Clinical Fellow, West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Dr Kapila Batta, Consultant Dermatologist, West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, and Dr Tess McPherson, Consultant Dermatologist, Oxford University Hospitals

Comfort break

Live stream:
Sponsored industry presentation by Almirall Ltd
EBGLYSS
(lebrikiziumab) clinical data: What do the trials show

Sponsored industry presentation by Incyte
Opzelura: Now you can put vitiligo in the spotlight video

3 rare complications of SJS/TEN

Dr Sarah Walsh, Consultant Dermatologist, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust on behalf of Dr Sarah Walsh and Dr Daniel Creamer, Consultant Dermatologist, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Adult T cell lymphoma

Dr Carmen Hew, Specialty Trainee Year 6, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust on behalf of Dr Katharine Warburton, Consultant Dermatologist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Cutaneous lymphoid hyperplasia (B- cell pseudolymphoma)

Dr Haya Rawabdeh, Medical Training Initiative-Trust Grade Doctor, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust on behalf of Dr Philip Laws, Consultant Dermatologist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals

VEXAS syndrome

Dr Tenzin Brookes, Dermatology Junior Clinical Fellow, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust on behalf of Dr Tanya Basu, Consultant Dermatologist, Dr Jonathan Batchelor, Consultant Dermatologist, Dr Austin Kulasekararaj, Consultant Haematologist, Dr Jeanne Boissiere, Consultant Histopathologist, and Dr Vicky Gkreka, Consultant Haematologist, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

A case of melanoma secondary to germline RB1 mutation

Dr Emily Yiu Hui Ko, Clinical Fellow in Dermatology, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust on behalf of Dr Caroline Murray, Consultant Dermatologist, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

Case voting
Closing remarks
Close of meeting

Location

Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom

Registration for this event will close at 1:00am on Wednesday 14 May 2025. Late registrations will not be accepted.   

The agenda is subject to change at any time 

If the event is recorded, we are only able to share presentations that we have received permission to share. There is no guarantee that all sessions will be available after the event, this is at the presenters and RSM discretion. 

All views expressed at this event are of the speakers themselves and not of the Royal Society of Medicine, nor the speaker's organisations. 

This event will be recorded and stored by the Royal Society of Medicine and may be distributed in future on various internet channels. 

While you’re attending this event

Why not stay in the comfort of our hotel, Domus Medica, book dinner in the restaurant, or even hire one of our private dining rooms to socialise with your peers?

RSM members enjoy access to our enviable club facilities. For more information, please contact our team at domus@rsm.ac.uk or restaurant@rsm.ac.uk.

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