About me

Hywel Williams was brought up in the hillside village of Cymmer Afan in South Wales, where he attended the local comprehensive schools. He trained in medicine at Charing Cross Hospital, London. After qualifying, Hywel did further medical and dermatology training in London at the Hammersmith Hospital, Charing Cross Hospital, Kingston Hospital and King's College Hospital. Whilst training in dermatology at Kings, he published an article in the Lancet about a dog detecting skin cancer and was the first to suggest the possibility of canine cancer detection. In 1994, he won a Wellcome Trust clinical epidemiology training fellowship and did an MSc in Clinical Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. This led to a PhD in developing diagnostic criteria for atopic eczema in 1994 when he worked at St John's Dermatology Centre, London. That year, Hywel was appointed as Senior Lecturer in Dermatology to the clinical dermatology department at Nottingham, and became Foundation Professor of Dermato-Epidemiology in April 1998. There, he founded the Centre of Evidence-Based Dermatology.