Consultant in Dermatology

 

GMC number: 6104619

Tel: 020 8546 7711

Biography

Dr. Abigail Fogo is a Consultant Dermatologist at Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, having joined the expanding dermatology team in August 2014.

Abigail’s special interest is in paediatric dermatology and she has developed the paediatric dermatology and allergy service here at the hospital, collaborating with both hospital-based paediatric colleagues and GPs in the surrounding community in the management of difficult atopic eczema and associated allergy. She specialises in the diagnosis and management of all dermatoses presenting in children and adults and has gained her experience in this field working at King’s College Hospital and St. John’s Institute of Dermatology in London, prior to her appointment here.

Abigail graduated with a distinction from St Bartholomew’s and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry in 2004 and was awarded David Reeve and Herbert Patterson Prizes for outstanding academic achievement in 2000 and the Brackenbury, Bourne and Magdalen Hughes Scholarship in Medicine in 2004. She also attained a first class honours degree in Biochemistry and Genetics at Nottingham University in 1999. She completed her dermatology training at King’s College Hospital and St. John’s Institute of Dermatology in London and won the Royal Society of Medicine Hugh Wallace Registrar Prize for presenting in her specialty field 2009-2010.

She is a member of the British Association of Dermatologists and has presented regularly at their annual national conferences. She has published in her specialty field in several peer-reviewed journals.