Photodermatology & Skin Ageing

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Consultant Dermatologist and Honorary Clinical Reader, Photobiology Unit, Department of Dermatology, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, Scotland.

EDUCATION:
Robert Dawe was born in Tanzania, and was brought up there and in Malaŵi before finishing school education in Scotland and then attending Glasgow University Medical School. He graduated as a medical doctor (MBChB) in 1989, and, after 4 years working in general (internal) medicine in Scotland, Wales and Cornwall (in England), started training in dermatology in 1993. He was appointed Consultant Dermatologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer (University of Dundee) in 2004 after completing higher specialist training as a dermatologist. His postgraduate doctorate thesis (MD) was on phototherapy-related topics.

CURRENT POSITION:
Robert Dawe works in the Scottish National Health Service and is based in Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, where the Scottish national photobiology unit, and the local dermatology inpatient ward for Tayside and North-East Fife, are based. He does outpatient clinics in 3 peripheral hospitals as well as in Dundee; he is mostly a general dermatologist but also does specialist clinics in phototherapy, porphyria, dermatological surgery and chronic urticaria. He is currently Lead Clinician for Photonet (the Scottish national managed clinical network for phototherapy, a clinical governance scheme through which all phototherapy in Scotland is provided) and Honorary Secretary/Treasurer of the British Photodermatology Group.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Research interests have mainly been concentrated on clinical trials in phototherapy and epidemiology related to phototherapy and the photodermatoses (idiopathic and the porphyrias).

EDITORIAL POSITIONS:
Robert Dawe has been co-editor of the journal Clinical and Experimental Dermatology since 2011.