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Veronique Bataille MD PhD FRCP
Dr Veronique Bataille trained at the Louvain Medical School in Brussels and graduated in July 1985 with magnum cum laude. She worked in many teaching hospitals in London and started her dermatology training at St John's Institute of Dermatology at St Thomas Hospital in 1989. She then moved to the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in Holborn and the Royal London Hospital as a clinical research fellow where she completed her PhD on the genetic epidemiology of skin and eye melanoma in 1995 under the supervision of Professor Julia Newton Bishop, Professor Jack Cuzick and Professor Tim Bishop.
In 1993, Dr Bataille had the opportunity to spend several months in the Sydney Melanoma Unit in Australia, one of the busiest melanoma unit in the world. In 1994, she moved to St George's Hospital in London where she spent 2 years as a Senior Registrar also working in the Pigmented Lesion Clinic and Melanoma Clinic.
Dr Bataille became an accredited consultant dermatologist in 1996 and is on the specialist registry for dermatology of the UK General Medical Council. In 1996, she was appointed Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Dermatologist at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry where she continued her interest in the genetics of melanoma and other skin cancers. At Barts and the London Hospital, she was the lead clinician for the provision of clinical services in melanoma. She also supervised research fellows, research nurses and lab technicians on various projects on skin cancers. Dr Bataille is currently working at the West Hertfordshire Trust where she is also providing specialised care for patients with skin cancers.
Over the last 8 years, Dr Bataille has also set up many projects at the Twin Research Unit at St Thomas Hospital in London where she has studied the genetic influence on common skin disorders such as acne, eczema, psoriasis and moles in more than 2000 twins.
Dr Bataille became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in May 2000.
Since 1996 Dr Bataille has acted as a consultant and advisor for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. In 2003, Dr Bataille was appointed as the dermatology consultant for L'Oreal Paris.
Dr Bataille also practices privately at 148 Harley Street. London where she sees patients with all dermatological conditions but specialises in skin cancers, melanoma, familial melanoma, atypical naevi and family cancer syndromes.
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