Richard Weller | MD, FRCP (Ed) – Personal Chair of Medical Dermatology, University of Edinburgh, UK

I graduated in medicine at St Thomas’ Hospital, University of London (now part of King’s College, London) and undertook my general/internal medicine training in the north of England and in Australia. Having gained my MRCP, I trained in dermatology at the Institute of Dermatology (St John’s) in London and in Aberdeen and Edinburgh. I spent some time out of my clinical training to complete a research MD degree. Having completed my dermatology training, I gained a scholarship from the University of Edinburgh, and spent three years in postdoctoral research training in the laboratories of Professor Victoria Kolb-Bachofen, Heinrich-Heine Universität, Dusseldorf, and of Dr Tim Billiar, University of Pittsburgh, USA. I was recruited from America to the post of Senior Lecturer and, latterly, Reader in Dermatology and Principal Investigator at the Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh. My time is divided between clinical duties, where I am an honorary NHS Consultant Dermatologist with a particular interest in medical dermatology and eczema, and the University where I am active in research and teaching.