Dr Deirdre Buckley

Dermatology

Professional profile

Dr Deirdre Buckley is a consultant dermatologist with a special interest in allergy. She has an extensive research background and is an internationally recognised expert and lecturer in the area of fragrance allergy.

Dr Buckley studied medicine at University College Cork (Ireland). She trained in two specialized skin cancer surgery units in Birmingham and London and as Senior Registrar in Dermatology at University College Hospital, London. Specialist training in contact dermatitis was obtained at the Department of Cutaneous Allergy, St Thomas' Hospital, London and in general allergy at Imperial College London and the Department of Cutaneous Allergy, Amersham. She was appointed as Consultant Dermatologist at Great Western Hospital NHS Trust, Swindon in 2001. Over a ten year period she developed the allergy, skin cancer surgery and phototherapy services in Swindon, in particular setting up an integrated NHS Type I (prick test) service for allergy patients.

Following her recruitment to the Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust in 2011, she has run a busy Type IV (patch test) NHS Allergy Clinic and continued her national research work. At CircleBath Dr Buckley runs a specialist allergy and prick test service for adults and children over the age of 3 years with suspected allergy to latex, local anaesthetics, nuts and other foods, pets, pollen, dust and moulds; venom allergy; allergic rhinitis, allergic conjunctivitis, asthma, atopic eczema and undiagnosed anaphylaxis.  She also provides sublingual immunotherapy for patients allergic to grass or tree pollen, animals or house dust mite.

Personal profile

Dr Buckley values personal interaction highly. She is regarded by peers as an approachable and conscientious doctor with very high standards.

Current NHS or research position

Consultant Dermatologist, CircleBath and Royal United Hospital, Bath

Special clinical interests

Type I Allergy

Type IV Allergy (Contact Dermatitis)

Immunotherapy (sublingual)

Skin Cancer Surgery; treatment of moles and melanoma

Research interests

Wrote the national set of patient information leaflets for patients with Type IV Allergy adopted by the British Society for Cutaneous Allergy

Member of the Therapy and Guidelines Committee of the British Association of Dermatologists.

Dermatology Editorial Representative for the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.

Content author of two e-learning modules (on pigmented moles) for the Department of Health/British Association of Dermatologists' e-learning for Health Project.

Regular reviewer for the British Journal of Dermatology, Contact Dermatitis, Clinical and Experimental Dermatology and Journal of the European Academy of Dermatovenereology.

Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies

British Association of Dermatologists (BAD)

British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology (BSACI)

British Society for Cutaneous Allergy (BSCA)