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Professor Christopher Bunker

MA MD FRCP

Special interests:

Dermatology, Male genital dermatology, Skin cancer

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Specialist Treatments

Treatments offered at King Edward VII’s Hospital include, but are not limited to:

Basic Skin Surgery
Excisions
Curettage
Cryotherapy
Hyfreaction
Electrocautery

Professional Biography

Professor Chris Bunker is a Consultant Dermatologist at King Edward VII’s Hospital and has been a Consultant Dermatologist at UCLH since 2010.

Previously he had been a Consultant at The Westminster (subsequently the Chelsea and Westminster, where he still does a specialist weekly 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 and won the Cambridge University prize for his MD thesis.

He is a general Dermatologist with 24 years’ experience as a Consultant in teaching hospitals. He is also Honorary Consultant Dermatologist to the Royal Hospital, Chelsea and St Luke’s Hospital for the Clergy, London.

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Awards

I have achieved the Sir Archibald Gray Medal in 2019 for outstanding services to dermatology and a Silver National Clinical Excellence Award.

In 1992, I received the Cambridge University Sir Walter Langdon-Brown Prize for my postgraduate MD research on CGRP in Raynaud’s phenomenon.

Memberships

My memberships include:

President of British Association of Dermatologists
President of the Dermatology Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, St John’s Hospital
President of Dermatological Society
President of the West London Medico-Chirurgical Society and the Chelsea Clinical Society
Chair, Dermatology Specialty Advisory Committee
Council member, Royal College of Physicians
Chairman, Consultants Medical Staff Committee at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital

Training Positions

I have trained over 100 other consultants and taught thousands of medical students.

Publications

I have published over 330 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 60 peer-reviewed journal articles on the subject.

Consultation fee £400

Follow-up-fee £225

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