Dr Tamara Griffiths is a senior Consultant Dermatologist at the Dermatology Centre, Salford Royal Hospital NHS Trust, one of the UK’s largest training programmes. She is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester, a world-leading centre for dermatological research. She is also an American Board-Certified dermatologist with an international educational reach.

From 2008 she was Dermatology Training Programme Director for the North Western Deanery, and in 2015 was appointed chair of Dermatology Specialist Advisory Committee for the Royal College of Physicians, responsible for all aspects of postgraduate dermatology training in the UK, including the development and implementation of the GMC 2021 Dermatology Curriculum. After launching the British College of Dermatology in 2021, she was appointed as inaugural Education Vice President in 2023.

Dr Griffiths has acted as advisor to the Department of Health’s Review of the Regulation of Cosmetic Interventions led by Sir Bruce Keogh published in 2013. She was instrumental in developing the Health Education England curricula and training frameworks for non-surgical cosmetic interventions (2015) and is a founding member and trustee of the Cosmetic Practice Standards Authority (CPSA), which launched in partnership with the Joint Council for Cosmetic Practitioners (JCCP) at the House of Lords in 2018. She is Medical Programme Director for the University of Manchester MSc in Skin Ageing and Aesthetic Medicine, developed in 2013 and now recognised as the gold standard in the UK and internationally, and is the Cosmetic Dermatology section editor for Rook’s Textbook of Dermatology.

Her clinical team was awarded BMJ Dermatology Team of the Year in 2018, and in 2021 she was recognised by the British Association of Dermatologists as Clinician of the Year. In July 2024 she commenced her two-year term as President of the British Association of Dermatologists.

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