Our Consultant Dermatologists

MB BCh BAO BMedSci MRCP

Dr Sarah Walsh, is a Consultant Dermatologist, working both at Dermatology Consulting in Tunbridge Wells, and King’s College Hospital in London. Originally from Ireland, she graduated first place in class with first class honours from University College Cork, before pursuing post-graduate training in Edinburgh and Glasgow. She entered the Specialist Register upon completion of dermatology training in 2010. 

Dr Walsh completed a one year clinical fellowship in severe drug reactions and acute medical dermatology at King’s in 2010/2011, before taking up a substantive Consultant role in the department.   

Dr Walsh has a number of clinical and academic interests. She has expertise in adverse reactions to medications arising in the skin, and is a contributing member of ToxiTEN, the European research group for severe drug reactions. She runs the Biologics Clinic at King’s, prescribing third-line immunological therapies for severe inflammatory skin diseases such as psoriasis, eczema and hidradenitis suppurativa. She is also the dermatologist for the national Sarcoidosis specialist service, run from King’s College Hospital. Dr Walsh has a clinical interest in female genital skin concerns, and runs the specialist service for vulval dermatoses at King’s.   

Dr Walsh is actively involved in research, and has more than 60 publications in peer-reviewed journals. She is the author of several book chapters in prestigious reference texts such as the Rook Textbook of Dermatology, the Oxford Textbook of Medicine, and Pharmacy and Therapeutics. She served as Section Editor of the British Journal of Dermatology from 2011 – 2018 and is currently involved in editing the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology. She is a frequent invited speaker at national and international meetings on severe drug reactions, sarcoidosis and acute medical dermatology.  

Dr Walsh is committed to teaching and training the next generation of dermatologists and dermatology nurses. In recent years, she has collaborated with art educationalists to develop a European visual literacy training programme for dermatologists. This is a novel training method for doctors using fine art to hone observational and descriptive skills, originally pioneered at Yale Medical School in the US. In her free time, Dr Walsh is a keen tennis player and skier, and she enjoys art history and the French language. 

MB, BChir, MPhil (Cantab), FRCP

Dr Marie-Louise Daly studied medicine at Cambridge University and, following this, completed a higher MPhil research degree, also at Cambridge University. She completed her postgraduate training at many teaching hospitals including Addenbrooke’s, King’s College, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospitals. During her specialist dermatology training she won the prestigious St. John’s Society Registrar prize and was a co-investigator in clinical research trials at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ hospital.

Dr Marie-Louise Daly previously held  an NHS Consultant post at the Lewisham and Greenwich Trust where she was the clinical lead for dermatology and head of teaching for undergraduate medical students. She also jointly ran the department’s biologic clinic for treatment of severe psoriasis.

She has published a number of original works in prestigious dermatology research journals and has recently published a Dermatology handbook for trainee doctors and GPs.

She currently consults on all aspects of skin disease in both adults and children including acne, eczema, allergy, psoriasis, moles and skin cancer.

MB, BS, BSc(Hons), MRCP (dermatology)

Dr Sophia Paget qualified from Imperial College Medical School. She also undertook an additional BSc in Immunity and Infection for which was awarded a First Class Honours degree.

She did her general medical training at Charing Cross Hospital and Bristol and then did her higher dermatology training at Imperial College, Chelsea and Westminster, Barts and St Mary’s Hospitals in London.

She is currently a consultant dermatologist at Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust and has a particular interest in general medical dermatology, skin cancer and paediatric dermatology. She is currently involved in training dermatology trainees and medical students from St George’s medical school. She is the research lead for her dermatology department and oversees and delivers NIHR registered dermatology clinical trials and contributes to the South West London clinical research network.

She is an active member of the British association of Dermatologists, St John’s Institute of Dermatology, Royal Society of Medicine and the British Society for Paediatric and Adolescent Dermatology.

BMedSci BM BS FRCP

Dr Jonathan Batcheloris a Consultant Dermatologist at Beckenham Beacon, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and is Clinical Lead and Skin Cancer Lead for the department at Beckenham. 

Dr Batchelor grew up in Sevenoaks and attended The Judd School in Tonbridge. He graduated from the University of Nottingham Medical School in 2000. Between 2001 and 2003 he was a recipient of the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation Scholarship and lived in Tokyo where he undertook a period of Japanese language study and passed the National Language Proficiency Test at level 1 (Advanced). He then undertook research work at the National Centre for Child Health and Development and a clinical attachment in the Department of Dermatology at Showa University.

After returning to the UK, Dr Batchelor undertook postgraduate clinical work in the Emergency Department at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust followed by the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He undertook his dermatology specialty training at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and was one of the inaugural UK Dermatology Clinical Trials Network Trainee Fellows from 2008 to 2010. He was appointed Consultant Dermatologist at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (2010-14) and at Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (2014-18) and has been Consultant Dermatologist at Beckenham Beacon since 2018.

From 2010 to 2022, Dr Batchelor was Honorary Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham’s Centre of Evidence-based Dermatology. His published research work has centred on trials for vitiligo and eczema, including working as joint Chief Investigator for the HI-Light Vitiligo Trial. He has over 70 publications in peer-reviewed journals, including the British Journal of Dermatology and the British Medical Journal (BMJ). He was Clinical Trials Section Editor of the British Journal of Dermatology from 2010 to 2020. Since 2014 he has been a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and he is a member of the British Association of Dermatologists and the British Society for Dermatological Surgery.

Dr Batchelor treats patients (aged 16 and above) with all skin conditions including acne, eczema, psoriasis and other rashes, moles, skin cancer and other skin lesions.

In his free time, Dr Batchelor enjoys cooking, wine, all kinds of music, stand-up comedy (watching, not performing) and Japanese language and culture.