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Professor Edel O’Toole, MB, PhD, FRCP

Edel

Professor of Molecular Dermatology

Centre: Cell Biology and Cutaneous Research

Email: e.a.otoole@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone: 020 7882 7161

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I am a clinical academic with an active research group working on diverse aspects of keratinocyte biology related to rare skin disease.

I received my medical degree from University College, Galway, Ireland and subsequently trained in Galway and Dublin in Medicine and Dermatology. In 1994, I moved to Northwestern University, Chicago to work with Professor David Woodley on keratinocyte migration and extracellular matrix funded by a Dermatology Foundation and subsequently a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Physician-Scientist Fellowship. From 1998-2001, I completed my clinical training in Dermatology at the Royal Free and Barts and the London NHS Trusts. In July 2001, I became a Clinical Senior Lecturer/Honorary Consultant Dermatologist at QMUL/Barts and the London NHS Trust. My clinical interests are genetic skin disease (palmoplantar keratodermas and ichthyoses), paediatric dermatology and medical dermatology. I became Professor of Molecular Dermatology in 2008 and Centre Lead in 2015. I am a co-director of the Wellcome-funded HARP (Health Advances in Underrepresented Populations and Diseases) clinical doctoral training programme.

I was Chair of the British Society for Investigative Dermatology from 2009 to 2011. I was on the ESDR board from 2018 to 2022 and chaired the Diversity Taskforce. I am co-lead of the Skin Genomics England Clinical Interpretation Partnership.

I am Chair of the Medical Advisory Board of the Ichthyosis Support Group and am on the Steering Committee of Pachyonychia Project, a patient support group for patients with pachyonychia congenita.

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