Dr Drousiotis is a Consultant Dermatologist-Venereologist, specialising in skin cancer and procedural dermatology. Dr Drousiotis was born and raised in Limassol, Cyprus. His undergraduate studies include a bachelor’s in Pharmacology BSc (hons) in the UK followed by medical studies that led to the title of Doctor of Medicine and Surgery (MD) at the University of Malta. His postgraduate hospital training started in Glasgow and continued in London, where he trained in departments of general medicine and general surgery for three years. Following these, he moved to Tel-Aviv, Israel where he completed his specialist training in Dermatology and Venereology at the Chaim Sheba Tel-Hashomer hospital, the biggest tertiary centre in Israel. After obtaining European accreditation through board specialty examinations, he was selected as a senior skin cancer fellow at the world renown St John’s institute of Dermatology (Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospitals - King’s College London). His role there consisted of extensive clinical work in the department of skin cancer (screening for moles and suspicious lesions, melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer as well as skin surgery). He also contributed in the writing of local guidelines for the management of advanced skin cancer and taught the Dermatology Masters students at King’s college London on the topic. 

Furthermore, Dr Drousiotis has a special interest in advanced aesthetic treatments which he developed in the private sector in London, UK.

He is fluent in Greek, English and Hebrew.

Sep 2009 – Jun 2014      Medical Degree - Doctor of Medicine and Surgery (MD)

                                                University of Malta

Sep 2006 – Jun 2009      Bachelor of Science in Pharmaceutical Sciences (BSc Honours)

                                                University of East Anglia (United Kingdom)

Aug 2021 – Aug 2022   Senior Skin Cancer Fellow

                                               St John’s Institute of Dermatology, Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospitals

                                               King’s College London, UK

Sep 2017 – Sep 2020    Dermatology and Venerology Specialty Trainee

                                               Sheba Medical Centre, Tel-Hashomer

                                               Tel-Aviv, Israel

Sep 2016 – Aug 2017   Senior House Officer in Ortho-Geriatrics

                                               Colchester University Hospital, NHS Foundation trust

Aug 2015 – Aug 2016   Year 2 Doctor

                                               NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

                                               Rotations in the following specialties: 

                                               General Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Trauma & Orthopaedics

Aug 2014 – Aug 2015   Year 1 Doctor

                                               NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

                                               Rotations in the following specialties:

                                               General Medicine, General Surgery (skin cancer clinics and minor ops)

1. Management of Basal Cell Carcinomas NHS guidelines, GSTT, Mar 2022
2. Dermatomyositis – lupus-like syndrome overlap under treatment with
   Etanercept for rheumatoid arthritis, JAAD case reports, Aug 2020

3. Circle hairs in a cardiac transplant patient, JEADV, Mar 2020
4. Predictive value of haematological inflammatory biomarkers in
   Pemphigus Vulgaris, Dermatology, Jan 2021

5. Hair shaft morphology, elemental composition, and nanoparticles in 
   Frontal Fibrosing alopecia: a case control study, ACTA, Sep 2021

Research:                     
1. The use of different types of fillers in HIV patients with facial lipoatrophy:

    A ten year literature review, Poster presentation – 27th EADV, Sep 2018

2. Patient-related outcome measures at five years following autologous 
   Chondrocyte transplantation (ACI/MACI), Poster presentation
   Glasgow annual meeting of Orthopaedic research, Apr 2017

3. The role of neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio in diagnosing acute appendicitis
    Poster presentation – European Society of Coloproctology, Apr 2015

Cases:
1. The spectrum of granulomatous disease; an overview of two cases    
 (Erdheim-Chester disease, popular xanthoma)
   National annual Dermatology conference, Tel Aviv – Mar 2020

2. Palisaded Neutrophilic and Granulomatous dermatitis
   A case presenting with the ‘rope-sign’
   National annual Dermatology conference, Tel Aviv – Feb 2019

Audit:
1. The correct allergy enquiry during trauma admissions
  Inverclyde Royal Hospital, Greater Glasgow and Clyde – Jul 2015

2. Appropriateness of neuromuscular biopsy referrals to plastic surgery
   John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford Deanery meeting – Sep 2013

• Clinical Tutor: 

1. Demonstrator - skin biopsy course
   St John’s Derm-academy London (June 2022)
2. Lecturer for the topic: Non-melanoma skin cancer for the MSc Dermatology, King’s College London (Aug 2021)
3. Instructor and tutor responsible for the St. George’s, University of London (Cyprus campus) and Tel-Aviv University medical students on rotation at the Dermatology department, Sheba medical centre (Sep 2018 – present) 
   
4. Delivering weekly tutorials to 5th year medical students of the University of Glasgow. Topic:  Skin cancers and melanoma (Jan 2015 – Aug 2016)

• Medical Student – Scholarship: University of Oxford, fully funded Clinical Elective at the department of Plastic Surgery – John Radcliffe University Hospital (Sep – Nov 2013)
  
  
• Medical Student – Elective: International Medical students Association funded elective, Plastic surgery – Ljubljana University Hospital (Sep 2012)
  
  
• Conferences and Courses

  May 2022                      British Society of Skin Care in Immunosuppressed Individuals

                                            Update on skin diseases in immunosuppressed - London

  Oct 2021                        British society of dermatological surgery course – London 

  Sep 2021                        St John’s Academy dermoscopy course - London

  Dec 2019                        International nail disorders conference – Tel-Aviv

  Sep 2019                        Annual Dermoscopy course – Tel-Aviv

  Sep 2018                       27th  EADV congress - Paris

  Feb 2016                        Basic Surgical Skills course

                                             Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd)

  Aug 2015                       Training the Clinical Teacher Diploma 

                                             University College London (UCL)

  Sep 2013                        Head and neck flap course - NHS Oxford Deanery

• Cyprus Medical Council

         Registration number: 5973, Dermatology and Venereology specialist register

• General Medical Council, UK

         Registration number: 7485070, Full registration 

• European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV)