Research Students & Academic Clinical Fellows

Ser Ling graduated from Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ School of Medicine and Dentistry in 2000. She joined the Department of Dermatology, Queen’s Medical Centre in December 2004 as a specialist registrar. She has spent a year in Mbarara, Uganda studying skin disease in HIV-infected patients on anti-retroviral therapy and continues to work under the mentorship of Dr Toby Maurer from the Department of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco. Dr Kim Thomas is her academic supervisor for her research degree based at the University of Nottingham.

Biography: After completing her Medical degree and pre-registration jobs in Greece, Viktoria decided to continue her medical career in the UK. She worked for the NHS in various hospitals for 2 years, mainly in Medicine and A&E. Always aspiring to a career as a Consultant Dermatologist and having a great interest in Evidence-based Medicine, Viktoria joined the Centre of Evidence Based Dermatology as a Research Associate in August 2009 working on the vitiligo workstream of the NIHR funded programme, ‘Setting Priorities and Reducing Uncertainties in People with Skin Disease’. (More)

Biography: Louise studied Medicine and after graduating and completing pre-registration jobs she spent several years working as a clinical microbiologist in hospitals around the UK. She joined the Centre of Evidence Based Dermatology as a Research Associate in November 2008, and is working on the Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC) workstream of the NIHR funded programme, ‘Setting Priorities and Reducing Uncertainties in People with Skin Disease’. She has undertaken a Cochrane systematic review of RCTs of treatments of SCC, and is currently working on a systematic review of observational studies of treatments and undertaking feasibility work which will guide the development of a proposal for a clinical trial of SCC treatment. ( More)

Biography: Helen studied at Leeds University for a Degree in Medical Microbiology. After graduating, she spent a year designing A-Level Microbiology practical experiments for the Society for General Microbiology. Helen also worked on clinical trial data before joining the Centre of Evidence Based Dermatology in 2005 as the editorial assistant for the Cochrane Skin Group. She is currently working as a research associate on the eczema treatments workstream of the SPRUSD programme grant which involves undertaking a systematic review of all treatments for eczema, creating a database of RCTs of eczema treatment and researching shared decision making for eczema. (More)

Biography: Rosalind studied at the University of Nottingham Medical School and completed a BMedSci degree in 2002 and BMBS degree in 2004. She has worked at Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Nottingham University Hospitals and University Hospitals Leicester throughout her clinical medical training and gained membership to the Royal College of Medicine, MRCP (UK) in 2006. She started Dermatology specialist training in 2008 at Leicester Royal Infirmary and moved back to Nottingham University Hospitals in 2010. She was awarded a UK DCTN SpR Fellowship in February 2010 and has been responsible for developing a project on Vulval Erosive Lichen Planus; funding for £9600 has been achieved to perform a multi-centre case note audit. In June 2011 Rosalind started a full time Clinical Research Fellow Post at the Centre of Evidence Based Dermatology to progress this work.