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Hywel Williams

Professor of Dermato-Epidemiology & Director of the Centre of Evidence Based Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

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Biography

Hywel Williams was brought up in the hillside village of Cymmer Afan in South Wales, where he attended the local comprehensive schools. He trained in medicine at Charing Cross Hospital, London. After qualifying, Hywel did further medical and dermatology training in London at the Hammersmith Hospital, Charing Cross Hospital, Kingston Hospital and King's College Hospital. In 1994, he won a Wellcome Trust clinical epidemiology training fellowship and did an MSc in Clinical Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. This led to a PhD in developing diagnostic criteria for atopic eczema in 1994 when he worked at St John's Dermatology Centre, London. That year, Hywel was appointed as Senior Lecturer in Dermatology to the clinical dermatology department at Nottingham, and became Foundation Professor of Dermato-Epidemiology in April 1998.

Outside of dermatology, Hywel was Director of Research and Development at Queen's Medical Centre NHS Trust from 1998 to 2001, and then became Director of the Nottingham unit of the Trent Institute for Health Services Research (TIHSR) from 2000 to 2004. Hywel chaired the National Research Development Support Unit Network from 2004 to 2006. He founded and then directed the University of Nottingham Clinical Trials Support Unit which has recently won 5 major new NIHR trials and registration from the UKCRC. Hywel also undertakes research commissioning and chaired the Research for Patient Benefit Programme for East Midlands from 2006 to 2009. Hywel was appointed Chair of the HTA Commissioning Board and Deputy Director of the HTA Programme in January 2010.

Hywel's main interests are evidence-based dermatology and the epidemiology and treatment of childhood eczema. Hywel has published over 270 peer-reviewed articles, including papers in Nature, the NEJM, Lancet and BMJ, and three books. He has raised over £8m in non-commercial externally funded research into health technology assessment in relation to skin disease. Hywel was awarded a silver merit award from the NHS in 2007 for his work into supporting NHS-related research, and in 2008, he was awarded an NIHR senior investigator award in the first competition round, which has renewed for a further 5 years as from 2012.

Expertise Summary

Clinical trials; systematic reviews; epidemiology of atopic eczema.

Teaching Summary

Evidence-based medicine

Research Summary

Dermato-epidemiology;clinical trials in dermatology;systematic reviews in dermatology;atopic eczema.

Recent Publications

Lost more information about me and the work that we do at our Centre of Evidence-Based Dermatology is on our website

www.nottinghamn.ac.uk/dermatology including resources for researchers and the public, publications, meetings and our annual reports

Past Research

Epidemiology of skin disease and health care needs assessments

Future Research

Non melanoma skin cancer and acne

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