Dr Tharakaram

Dr S Tharakaram MBBS, Dip.Derm, MD, FRCP is a Consultant Dermatologist over the last 8 years based at the Tunbridge Wells Nuffield Hospital. He qualified from India’s first medical school and premier teaching hospital , Madras Medical College, obtaining his postgraduate qualifications and training in Dermatology and General Medicine before training in the UK and obtaining the MRCP. In the UK he trained in Hull, Glasgow, Birmingham and the St John’s Institute of Dermatology sub-specialising in Dermatological Surgery and Moh’s and in Photobiology. He also worked in GenitoUrinary Medicine developing an interest in such dermatoses. He was first appointed in 1995 as a Consultant Dermatologist in Dudley where he worked for 6 years before moving to Tunbridge Wells and maintain links with London Dermatology. Whilst in Dudley he linked up with Paediatric Dermatology at Birmingham Children’s Hospital developing an interest in Paediatric Dermatology. He is a member of the British Association of Dermatologists, British Society of Paediatric Dermatology, British Society of Dermatological Surgery, American Academy of Dermatology, International Academy of Cosmetic Dermatology, and the St John’s Hospital Dermatological Society amongst various learned societies. He lectures to junior doctors, GP’s and nurses on various aspects of Dermatology, he has a number of publications to his credit including an MD on Cutaneous Metastases, serves as an undergraduate and membership examiner and lectures on the History of Medicine to learned societies.

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