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By Dr Phillip McKee March 22, 2025 • One of the most dramatic moments in my early career happened at a meeting of The Dermatology Section of The Royal Society of Medicine in 1978. A young girl was presented with very numerous moles quite a few of which were clinically atypical (increased size- generally 6mm or more in diameter, irregularly shaped with irregular borders ad variable pigment distribution). Wallace Clarke and co-workers had just described the “B-K mole syndrome”

By BSD Admin March 22, 2025 • The Leeds M Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust / UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS / The Alan Turin Institute / Medical Research Council ‍ ‍ WV-Enhanced phenotyping of melanocytic lesions using Al MEWe are looking to collaborate with colleagues from Trusts around the UK and abroad to help with our research. Our project looks to apply artificial intelligence algorithms to digital slides of melanomas to detect tumour.Collaboration would involve: • Sending us anonymise

Huge thank yous to Dr Sara Edward, Consultant Dermatopathologist at Leeds Teaching Hospitals and former BSD Secretary for her fantastic BSD trainee educational session today. We were delighted that so many people were able to attend and we hope you all enjoyed it as much we did!   Links to the slides that Dr Edward’s session covered are below as promised. The sessions are not being recorded for the time being but this is something we are looking to offer in the future.   Shou

Dr Phillip McKee March 22, 2025 • In 1978, I moved from Belfast to London. In those days, crossing the “Big Pond” was a huge deal. I spent the next months as an ad hoc dermatopathology fellow at St John’s Hospital for Diseases of the Skin in Lyle Street just off Leicester Square. In those days, the hospital was surrounded by the red-light district. This was obvious because the narrow frontage of St John’s was adjacent to two brothels complete with red lights! Preparation for