Barry Statham

The BSCA have established the Barry Statham Travel Award to attend the ESCD and ACDS meetings. This is in memory of Dr Barry Statham, Consultant Dermatologist in Swansea, and a tribute to his huge contributions to Cutaneous Allergy.

Barry was a very humble & true gentleman who is missed immensely by his family, friends and colleagues after his sudden death in 2012.

His many achievements included:

  • President of BSCA 2006-2009 (previously
    BCDS)
    • Active
      committee member of the ESCD and loved attending this meeting.
    • Key
      role in developing databases still used widely in many centres in the UK.
    • Data
      collection has been instrumental in UK multicentre publications and is key in
      audit of patch testing centres.
  • Key founding member of South Wales
    Cutaneous Allergy Network in 2002
    • 2-3
      yearly meetings which led to Annual meeting (9th meeting in 2019)
  • Key contributor ESSCA (European Surveillance
    System on Cutaneous Allergies)
    • Sister
      society of EADV
    • Many
      multicentre European publications now widely quoted & referenced
  • Barry
    played a key role in the BAD working
    party
    developing UK minimum standards for cutaneous allergy services.
  • Barry
    trained scores of registrars in Swansea
    on the Welsh training scheme
    and they all benefitted from his teaching,
    training and valued educational supervision which was always highly rated. He
    was always helpful, and an extremely knowledgeable colleague.
  • He
    was a dedicated family man and leaves
    behind Jan his loving wife and his daughter Jo and son Paul and grandchildren.

The BSCA would like to acknowledge Barry’s huge commitment and contributions to cutaneous allergy services and training in Wales and the UK and the BSCA Travel Award is in his name and honour.