Dr Ian Coulson

Dr Coulson qualified in medicine in 1978 from St Thomas’ Hospital Medical School, London. After gaining his higher qualifications in general internal medicine in 1981, Dr Coulson commenced training in dermatology. After working at the national skin hospital, the St John’s Hospital, for diseases of the skin in London, he had posts as a Registrar and Senior Registrar at St George’s Hospital in South London. Dr Coulson began consultant practice in East Lancashire in 1990 and is currently at the East Lancashire Acute NHS Trust as a locum since partial retirement from the NHS in 2014.

Dr Coulson has a broad range of clinical interests in all areas of clinical dermatology and skin surgery. He has a local responsibility for the investigation or contact and industrial dermatitis and co-writes the UK investigation guidelines. He is the Dermatologist to the Aintree Centre of Excellence for Behcet’s disease.

Dr Coulson has research interests in the mechanisms of inflammation in atopic eczema.

Dr Coulson lectures and presents research material at the American Academy of Dermatology and the British Association of Dermatologists annual meetings. Dr Coulson has also produced a nationally used e-learning module covering the core undergraduate medical curriculum and produces practical patient information on YouTube.

Dr Coulson has written over 80 clinical and research papers. He has also co-edited a textbook ‘Treatment of Skin Disease’ published in 2002, which became the global dermatology best seller in 2004. He has contributed chapters to the major UK Textbook of Dermatology (Rook’s Textbook) edition 5 to 10. Dr Coulson was the therapy section editor of the British Journal of Dermatology between 2004 and 2009.

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Dr Coulson was skin cancer network chairman for the Lancashire and South Cumbria area between 2005 - 2010. He is current Editor in Chief of DermNet, the world’s largest dermatology information site.

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