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 Dr Stephen Kownacki - Executive Chairman
He developed his interest in dermatology on the Northampton VTS scheme under the guidance of Dr Dick Coles, founder of the Psoriasis Association. He worked as a hospital practitioner at Northampton General Hospital for almost 30 years.
He retired in July 2011 from being senior partner in a large Wellingborough practice which is active in developing Practice based commissioning services as well as many aspects of medical research and teaching at all levels.
He remains active in the education of registrars locally and enjoys giving talks and writing particularly about the dissemination of knowledge and the development of learning practices. It is the importance of basic knowledge of common conditions that provides the biggest benefits to the largest number of patients.
He is keen to break down the barriers between the professions and to develop a more cohesive approach to the care of patients with skin problems.
He is involved with all aspects of the society activities especially the Essential Dermatology series and the new Dermoscopy for Beginners courses at which he chairs and lectures. He represents the society on many stakeholder groups, the Dermatology Council for England (DCE) and the All Party Parliamentary Group on Skin (APPGS.)
 Dr Tom Poyner - Vice Chairman
Tom is involved in delivering dermatology in secondary care and the community. He was previously a GP and a Hospital Practitioner in Dermatology. He was a founder member and is currently vice-chair of the Primary Care Dermatology Society. Tom has published original research on community dermatology. This includes work on the epidemiology and treatment of skin disease.
Tom is involved in teaching undergraduates and is honorary lecturer in the School for Health at the University of Durham. He is also active in postgraduate medical education, roles include acting as examiner for the diploma in dermatology based at Glasgow.
Tom has served on a number of working parties relating to dermatology in primary care and is an Editorial Board member of the journal “Dermatology in Practice”. His books include Common Skin Diseases, How do we manage:Acne, and Dermatology made easy: How to make the diagnosis.
 Dr Iain Henderson - Scottish Repesentative
Iain Henderson graduated from Glasgow University in 1980 and entered General Practice in Glasgow in 1986. He obtained the Diploma in Practical Dermatology in 1997 from Cardiff and started a Hospital Practitioner session in Dermatology in 2001 at the Western Infirmary, Glasgow.
Since 1999 he has been GP organiser of the Western Infirmary Dermatology Club and is keen to raise the awareness, profile and membership of the PCDS in Scotland. To this effect he is one of the organisers of the Annual Scottish Meeting of the PCDS. He is the Primary Care Advisor for Skin Care Campaign Scotland and represents the PCDS on the Scottish Council for Dermatology.
Outwith dermatology, Iain is an undergraduate tutor for Glasgow University Medical School, Honorary Lecturer for the Department of Pharmacology at Strathclyde University, deputy trainer in his practice and a Hospital Practitioner in Orthopaedics.
He is a self-confessed sports nut whose main sporting interests are playing golf, badminton, skiing and rugby refereeing.
Dr Liz Ogden - Secretary
 Liz Ogden went to St Andrews and then Manchester Universities, graduating in 1975. She undertook her vocational training in Enfield, Middlesex before becoming a GP principal in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire. After five years in General Practice she moved abroad and worked for six years in Bermuda. While there Liz’s passion for dermatology was rekindled, and on returning to the UK she enrolled in the Cardiff Diploma Course in Dermatology. Upon completion of this in 1993, Liz became a Clinical Assistant at the Lister Hospital in Stevenage, working for Dr Tina Green. She has continued to develop her interest in Dermatology and is now an Associate Specialist at both the Lister Hospital North Herts and also in West Herts where she works in the community and in secondary care clinics.
Liz also has a strong interest in Women’s Health and does community sexual and reproductive health sessions. She is an MFFP examiner for the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare. She has a particular interest in Vulval Dermatology and runs a dedicated clinic for this in Enfield.
Liz is keen on GP and nurse postgraduate education and is particularly interested in promoting greater Dermatology input into both undergraduate and postgraduate medical education. She has been on the PCDS committee for the last 7 years, contributing particularly to the Society’s educational events and has been Secretary of the Society for the past 4 years.
Liz represents the PCDS on the Skin Care Campaign, an umbrella organization for skin charities, which lobbies parliament to improve services for dermatology patients, and through this has had a role in rewriting the GP Registrar Dermatology Curriculum.
She is married and has two teenage children. Her hobbies are travel and cooking but she says she has insufficient time to do enough of either.
 Dr Brian Malcolm
Brian Malcolm qualified from Edinburgh University in 1981 joining North Devon District Hospital initially as a Clinical Assistant in 1988, progressing to Hospital Practitioner. He is presently a principal and trainer in Barnstaple, North Devon, and a Hospital Practitioner at the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital. In 1996, Brain won the prestigious Doctor of the Year Award for Dermatology.
He has been a member of the PCDS since its inception and has been involved with the running of the SW regional meetings. He also represents the PCDS on the present national ‘Action on Dermatology Group’. He has been awarded ‘Beacon status’ for his practice for the dermatology services offered and presently has secondary provider status with the local health authority.
Brian is presently authoring ‘Core Tutorials in Dermatology for Primary Care’ and tutors in dermatology at the North Devon VTS. He is also an examiner for the DPD in Cardiff.
His main interests are chronic wound management and minor surgery.
 Dr Stephen Hayes
Dr Stephen Hayes graduated from Southampton in 1979. After house jobs and an initial interest in surgery he trained as a GP, working on a council estate in east Southampton from 1985-2002. A growing interest in dermatology led to the Cardiff Diploma in Practical Dermatology in 1995-6, and work as a clinical assistant in southern Hampshire.
He was involved in developing one of the first GPwSI dermatology schemes in response to local needs, which went fully live in 2002. He worked for a year on the Isle of Wight as a 6 session a week hospital practitioner in dermatology. He is currently a portfolio doctor doing GP sessions, GPwSI community work under Practice Based Commissioning with an independent GP owned company (Solent Medical Services) including NICE compliant skin cancer work, and hospital practitioner skin cancer clinic sessions.
He is an active freelance teacher on GP and nurse dermatology courses and has written several articles for national GP magazines, some illustrated with his own digital photographs, developed a CDROM ‘lessons on lesions’ about sun related skin lesions, and regularly teaches a half day dermoscopy course with his consultant mentor Dr Catriona Henderson. Stephen has been active on the PCDS committee since June 2004.
Stephen and his wife Julia planted and manage a 5 acre orchard of English apples in Durley, Hampshire, the story of which is told on his blog and website at www.fruitwise.net. He has recently put a series of video tutorials about apple tree pruning on youtube, and plays mandolin with Wickham Morris dance side.
His particular medical interests are GP education in dermatology and the development of dermoscopy
 Dr Tim Cunliffe - GPSI in Dermatology and Skin Surgery - PCDS Website lead
Tim Cunliffe qualified at the Newcastle University Medical School in 1993. After completing a vocational training course Tim became a GP in Darlington in 1999. Soon after starting work as a GP he attained the Glasgow Diploma in Dermatology and started to work as a clinical assistant in Dermatology.
In 2001 he became a GPwSI in Dermatology and Skin Surgery and now works for Middlesbrough Primary Care Trust. His working week includes providing a community based dermatology & skin surgery service in addition to General Practice, he is also a member of the dermatology directorate at James Cook University Hospital where he provides one outpatient clinic a week.
Tim spends a significant amount of time on his travels and does much work with the Department of Health. He has worked on the PWSI National Accreditation Steering Group, the GPwSI in Dermatology and Skin Skin Surgery Working Group, the Clinical Advisory Group and QOL groups for 18-weeks.
Tim also enjoys the educational aspects of his work both at a local and national level, and is the lead author of the PCDS website.
Outside of work Tim enjoys the great outdoors and loves travel, wildlife photography and skiing.
 Dr Christy Chou - Lead for Skin Surgery
Dr Christy Chou qualified in 1985 at Dundee University.
He completed the Cleveland Vocational training scheme in General Practice in 1989 and was a full time GP Principle until 1994.
Christy started his training in Plastic Surgery in 1994 at Shotley Bridge Hospital and has been a Hospital practitioner in Plastic Surgery (part time) since January 1996.
In 2001 he initiated the Minor Surgery Service for Darlington PCT and Dales PCT. He currently works as the Primary Care Surgeon for the two organisations.
Christy performs 2,000 cases of skin surgery per year; approximately 50% of these are skin cancer, which is one of his main interests. One of his other interests is teaching GP’s and SHO’s in Plastic Surgery to improve their surgical skills. He runs a basic core skill programme for plastic surgery in Durham and a flap course at Newcastle University.
Christy has been a committee member of the Primary Care Dermatology Society since September 2006 and runs surgical teaching courses for the society.
 Dr Julian Peace - Treasurer
Julian qualified from Sheffield University in 1990 and, despite the presence of excellent transport links to other parts of the country, has worked in South Yorkshire ever since. He was fortunate to do a ‘house-job’ that included a significant amount of dermatology and has been drawn to the subject ever since. Since 1994 he has been a partner in a practice in Stocksbridge, to the north of Sheffield and has also worked at Barnsley District GeneralHospital on and off since 1999 when he found the time to complete the Cardiff diploma. Currently, alongside his primary care commitments, he works as a GPwSI delivering a part community, part hospital general dermatology clinic.
Since joining the PCDS committee in 2007, he has joined the education sub-committee and represents the society at the UK skin cancer working party at the BAD in London.
In common with the aims of the society, Julian has an interest in dermatology education and has spoken on a variety of topics around Barnsley and Sheffield. He is particularly interested in skin cancer and its prevention and would encourage more people to think about wearing a hat.
Julian is married and has two daughters and curates a growing domestic menagerie. He enjoys cooking – particularly baking bread – and searching out obscure progressive rock bands. He would love to spend more time in Italy but would then find it even harder to go and see Leeds United than he does at the moment.
 Helen Frow - Bulletin Editor
Helen qualified from Bristol University in 1993. She did a variety of jobs around the South West before going to Australia for 6 months. She was still there 3 and half years later! It was there that she developed an interest in dermatology, after seeing and treating many skin cancers that presented at younger ages than in the UK.
She returned to England and completed her GP training in Devon. Her enthusiasm for dermatology was rekindled when she did the Cardiff Diploma in 2006. Helen was a tutor and examiner for the Cardiff Course for 4 years before taking over as the PCDS Bulletin Editor.
Helen works as a ¾ time GP Principal in Plymouth, is also a GPwSI in Plymouth and a Hospital Practitioner in Exeter. Her special interest lies in all aspects of general dermatology. She leaves the fiddly surgical work to people blessed with much more patience for fine detail. She is involved in GP Specialist Registrar training in Plymouth.
In 2011, she was involved in work with other stakeholders at the Department of Health updating the guidance and competencies for the provision of dermatology services by GPwSis. She was also involved in writing the Dermatology Quality standards for Commissioners.
Helen enjoys spending her spare time outdoors, whatever the weather. This is mainly spent running through bogs and dodging rocks and wild animals on Dartmoor. She would like to thank her long-suffering husband and children for putting up with her obsessive addiction to dermatology.
 Dr George Moncrieff
George Moncrieff graduated from St Thomas Hospital, London in 1979. In his final year he was awarded the Grainger prize in Dermatology. After a couple of years in hospital medicine he saw the error of his ways and decided General Practice would be more challenging and joined the Banbury VTS. In 1984 he acquired MRCP.
He has been a full time partner in Bicester since 1985 and a trainer from 1989 to 2007. He has been an undergraduate medical tutor in Oxford since 1999, focusing on fourth, fifth and occasionally sixth year students. From 2000 until last year he was an examiner for the DCH.
He has been a member of the PCDS since 1997. He obtained the DPD from Cardiff in 1998 and was an external examiner for this Diploma from 1998 until 2005. In 2000 he started an interface dermatology clinic for patients in North-East Oxfordshire. Currently about 50 principals (looking after a population of nearly 80,000) send most of their dermatology to this clinic, which receives 600 new referrals annually.
In 2009 he was invited to be the Dermatology Curriculum Guardian by the RCGP. He is trying to develop this to become a useful and relevant tool for defining the knowledge base for Dermatology in Primary Care.
He is married with three grown-up sons (unfortunately only a lawyer, tornado pilot and management consultant as none wished to follow their father into Medicine). He enjoys windsurfing, tennis three times a week, bridge and chess when anyone wants a game.
 Dr Neil Shroff
Neil qualified at Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School in 1995. He did basic surgical training at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital obtaining the Associate Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1999. He held hospital posts in Plastic Surgery around the country but came to the conclusion that family life and settling down were more important to him. Therefore he completed the Nottingham vocational training scheme in 2005.
One of his posts was in dermatology, through which his plastic surgery skills came in useful. Additionally, he developed close links with the dermatology department, carrying out waiting list skin cancer work. During this time he completed the Diploma in Clinical Dermatology based at St Barts and the London Hospital in 2006.
In 2007 Neil, along with one of his partners, developed a community skin cancer service that served a population of 110,000 and would see between 12-15 new patients a week. The service concentrated on pre-cancerous skin lesions and basal cell carcinomas. In 2009 the service won a national practice-based commissioning award for 'best dermatology redesign'.
Neil has given talks to newly qualified GPs and Primary Care Nurses, additionally he has taught dermatological surgery on national courses training dermatology nurses. He is the GP representative for the East Midlands Skin Cancer Network and has been an active participant in skin cancer audit. He is keen on skin lesion and dermoscopy education for primary care.
Neil is a GP partner in Nottingham, working full time. He is married with 2 young boys and enjoys Aikido, circuit-training and is the 'long suffering' crowd doctor for Notts County Football Club.
 Dr Annabel Hesford
Annabel qualified in medicine from Oxford in 1989. After a year’s medical rotation and a 6 month spell as a medical registrar in New Zealand, she settled in the West country joining the GP scheme in Taunton, Somerset.
Following this, her dermatology interest was kindled by working for the inspirational Prof Julian Verbov at Broadgreen Hospital and Alder Hey Children’s hospital in Liverpool. On return to the West Country, Annabel became hospital Practitioner at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital for 9 years concurrent with her post as a 2/3 time GP principal in Taunton, Somerset.
She acquired the Cardiff Diploma in Dermatology in 2000, following which she set up a Primary Care Dermatology clinic at the surgery taking referrals from GPs in the locality. In addition she works as a GPwSI in the local cottage hospital, a speciality doctor in Dermatology at Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton and this year has set up a Non-melanoma skin cancer service for the West of Somerset, again based at her surgery in Taunton where she remains a 2/3 time GP principal.
Outside of medicine she enjoys singing, travel, hiking in mountains, and walking with her dog.
 Dr Brian Malcolm
Born Stirling, Scotland; qualified Edinburgh 1981 - Completed GP Training (Mid WalesVTS) 1986
Principal, trainer and senior partner in a large multi-training market town practice in Barnstaple Devon with a list size circa 15,200. Developed speciality interest in dermatology initially as a sessional clinical assistant in 1988.Now has a portfolio career divided equally between dermatology and primary care working as both a GPwSI and Associate Specialist. Special interests in education/skin cancer and skin surgery/dermoscopy and leg ulcers.
- Honorary Associate Tutor and external examiner, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff; external examiner RCP, Glasgow
- Former winner “Dermatology Dr of the Year”, RCGP Paul Freeling prize for education and beacon practice award in dermatology
- Committee member and former treasurer Primary Care Dermatology Society
- Author “Core Tutorials in Dermatology “and regular columnist MIMS Dermatology.
- Completed Masters in Medical Law and Ethics, Swansea University 2009
- Married with 2 children of university age. Passion for all things sporting and presently participates in riding/tennis/running/golf and ski-ing.
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