Professor Peter Mortimer

Professor Peter S. Mortimer, MD., FRCP.

BIOGRAPHY

Professor Peter Mortimer is Professor of Dermatological Medicine to the University of London at St George’s and the Royal Marsden Hospitals, London. He is internationally known for his research and clinical expertise in lymphoedema. Over the last ten years work funded by both the Wellcome Trust and Medical Research Council has explored the pathophysiology of lymphoedema following breast cancer treatment. He currently holds a Wellcome Trust Programme Grant in breast cancer related lymphoedema. In addition, his group has collected one of the largest groups of phenotyped families with inherited forms of lymphoedema in the world and were the first to the locus for distichiasis-lymphoedema syndrome as well as confirming the gene for Milroy disease. This ongoing work funded by the British Heart Foundation continues to explore physiological mechanisms in genetic forms of lymphoedema.

Professor Mortimer’s research extends to microvascular and lymphatic aspects of psoriasis (Wellcome Trust funding) and skin cancer using novel microcirculatory methods (video-microangiography and microlymphography) in vivo.

Professor Mortimer is Chief Medical Advisor to the national patients’ support group in lymphoedema which has over 3000 members. He regularly examines for higher degrees (PhD and MD) and the MRCP Paces examination for which he is a senior examiner. He has successfully supervised seven PhD students. He was awarded 1st prize in the BMA Book Competition and highly commended in the Advanced Author Book Category by the Medical Society of London Medical Book Awards in 1998. Currently he has 187 original articles in peer-reviewed journals and 92 editorials, reviews, letters, book chapters, and 2 books.

Updated May 2006