Dr Rachel Abbott

Health and Care Research Wales Faculty award:

Award: NHS Research Time Award (2021 - 2024)

Project title: Use of peri-operative antibiotics with no antibiotics in people undergoing excision of ulcerated skin cancers

Biography

Dr Rachel Abbott is a consultant dermatologist and Mohs surgeon at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. She graduated in Medicine from Imperial College, London and completed an intercalated BMedSci in Medical Microbiology at Edinburgh University. Her main research and clinical interest is in skin cancer, supported by a three-year NHS Research Time Award from Health and Care Research Wales from 2021-2024. She has co-authored several Cochrane reviews and led an observational multi-centre study to investigate surgical site infection in ulcerated skin cancers (OASIS study).

She is currently developing a trial investigating the use of oral antibiotics in skin surgery and collaborating with Dr Julie Peconi at Swansea University on the ‘Sunproofed’ study - a Mixed-Methods Scoping Study of Sun Safety Policies in Primary Schools in Wales. Rachel is also interested in sustainable healthcare. She is Chair of the British Association of Dermatologists Working Party on Sustainability.

Read more about Rachel and their work:

Primary schools in Wales encouraged to take part in sun safety study