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Professor Christopher Bunker
MA MD FRCP
Consultant Dermatologst
GMC number: 2699954
Special interests:
Dermatology, Male genital dermatology, Skin cancer
Treatments offered at King Edward VII’s Hospital include, but are not limited to:
- Basic Skin Surgery
- Excisions
- Curettage
- Cryotherapy
- Hyfreaction
- Electrocautery
Professor Chris Bunker is a Consultant Dermatologist at King Edward VII’s Hospital and has been a Consultant Dermatologist at University College London Hospital since 2010.
Previously he had been a Consultant at The Westminster (subsequently the Chelsea and Westminster, where he still does a monthly NHS clinic), Charing Cross and The Royal Marsden Hospitals. He holds Personal Chairs at both Imperial College (since 2005) and University College (since 2010), London.
He was educated at Wycliffe College, Glos., St Catharine’s College, Cambridge and Westminster Medical School, London. He trained in general medicine in London, Derby and Oxford and Dermatology at The Middlesex and University College Hospitals. In the late 1980s he had a Sir Jules Thorn Research Fellowship at UCL.
He is a general Dermatologist with 35 years’ experience as a Consultant in teaching hospitals.
Awards
I was awarded the Sir Archibald Gray Medal of the British Association of Dermatologists in 2019 for outstanding services to dermatology and a Silver National Clinical Excellence Award by the NHS.
In 1992, I received the Cambridge University Sir Walter Langdon-Brown Prize for my postgraduate MD research on CGRP in Raynaud’s phenomenon.
Memberships
Current memberships include:
Fellow, Royal College of Physician
Hon. Secretary, British Skin Foundation
Honorary Life Member of the British Association of Dermatologists
St John’s Hospital Dermatological Society
Council Member, Dermatology Section, Royal Society of Medicine
Member, European Academy of Dermatovenereology
International Honorary Member, American Dermatological Association
Honorary Life Member, Société Francaise de Dermatologie
Honorary Life Member, New Zealand Dermatological Society
Fellow, American Academy of Dermatology
Member, European Dermatology Forum
Past positions include:
President of British Association of Dermatologists
President of the Dermatology Section of the Royal Society of Medicine,
President of St John’s Hospital Dermatological Society
President of the West London Medico-Chirurgical Society
President of the Chelsea Clinical Society
Chair, Dermatology Specialty Advisory Committee, RCP
Council Member, Royal College of Physicians
Chairman, Consultants Medical Staff Committee at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
UK Board Member, European Academy of Dermatovenereology
Training Positions
I have trained over 150 other consultants and taught thousands of medical students.
Publications
I have published over 470 papers, case reports, books and chapters in books.
As an expert in the field of male genital dermatology, I authored the book Male Genital Skin Disease and over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles on the subject.
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