Dr. Patrick Ormond

Dr Patrick Ormond is a Consultant Dermatologist and Mohs Micrographic Surgeon. He is a fellow of the RCPI, and Senior lecturer in Medicine in St James hospital, Trinity College Dublin. Specialist training in Dermatology in Dublin and Cork was followed by the appointment of Fellow in Mohs micrographic surgery to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle upon Tyne followed by an honoury Fellowship in the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. He was appointed Consultant Mohs Micrographic Surgeon to the RVI in Newcastle, and returned to take up the post of Consultant Dermatologist and Mohs Micrographic surgeon in St James hospital in 2005. He set up the first Mohs micrographic surgery unit in the Irish Health service, which provides tertiary care for complex non-melanoma skin cancer nationally. He was first Chair of the Skin Cancer Expert group for the National Cancer Control Programme. He is Skin Cancer Lead for the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group. He has served on the Board of the Irish Skin Foundation, of which he was one of the original founders, the Charles Institute of Dermatology Research, and the Irish Melanoma Forum. He currently serves on the Board of the CODSCH charity which aims to promote, support, endow and research for the benefit of people living with skin diseases.