Dr. Donna Thompson is a Consultant Dermatologist and current Specialty lead for Dermatology at the Birmingham Skin Centre, City Hospital, a part of the Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust located in Birmingham, UK. Her subspecialty interests include Paediatric Dermatology as well as Cutaneous Allergy, and she is the lead physician for a dedicated Regional Cutaneous Allergy Unit providing patch testing and other investigations required as part of the management of contact dermatitis and other contact, occupational and environmentally induced skin diseases.  

Dr. Thompson is a graduate of the University of the West Indies (UWI) where she obtained a Bachelor of Science (BSc.) degree in Chemistry from the faculty of Natural Sciences, as well as a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degree from the faculty of Medical Sciences. She is also a graduate of the University of London having obtained a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Clinical Dermatology with distinction from the St. John’s Institute of Dermatology. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) of London.

Dr. Thompson is a published author in peer reviewed journals, and has been a speaker at numerous local, regional, national and international meetings.  She is committed to facilitating continuing professional development across regions, and assisted in facilitating one of the inaugural workshops at the Caribbean Dermatology Associations Annual meeting in 2017. She has been the organizer of the West Midlands Regional Dermatology Clinical Meetings since 2009, and additionally she has organized several West midlands Dermatopathology Meetings, and Midlands Dermatological Society Meetings. She is currently the meetings secretary for the British Society for Cutaneous Allergy (BSCA) and is responsible for organizing the biennial national update meeting.

Dr. Thompson  holds the following positions on national and international committees:

• Secretary – Caribbean Dermatology Association (CDA)
• Meetings Secretary – British Society for Cutaneous Allergy (BSCA)
• Regional representative and president elect for 2020 – Dowling Club of United Kingdom and Ireland.