लेखक: Peter Mortimer

Professor Peter Mortimer MD FRCP Consultant Dermatologist trained in Dermatology in Sheffield and Oxford. He was appointed “Physician to the Skin Department” at St George”s and consultant skin physician to the Royal Marsden Hospital in 1986 and has been Professor of Dermatological Medicine to the University of London since 2000.Interest in lymphatics began in Oxford where he undertook his thesis on “the measurement of skin lymph flow”. Current research is focused on “the genetic basis of primary lymphoedema” for which he holds a £2.5 million MRC programme grant, with past research including breast cancer related lymphoedema, lipoedema as well as melanoma spread by lymphatics. He has over 280 publications cited on Pub Med. He has been Chief Investigator on research programme grants from The Wellcome Trust, British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK and the Medical Research Council. Causes and treatment of all forms of lymphatic dysfunction including lymphoedema and cellulitis. His clinical practice deals almost entirely with chronic oedema, lymphoedema, lymphatic malformations, lymph-related disorders and lipoedema.He is a founder of both the Lymphoedema Support Network and British Lymphology Society and appointed the first Clinical Training Fellow in Lymphovascular Medicine in the UK.