Dr Rebecca McCarthy

Dr Rebecca McCarthy is an ST4 dermatology resident and academic clinical fellow at Barts Health NHS Trust and Queen Mary University of London. She graduated with honours from the University of Southampton in 2020, receiving the Dean's Award, before undertaking the Academic Foundation Programme. Rebecca then took a year out of clinical training between 2022 and 2023 to pursue clinical trial research in London, where she found her love for dermatology while working on a trial for a rare genetic skin disease. She went on to obtain MRCP(UK) in 2024 and complete Internal Medicine Training in London. She has a special interest in the genetics of skin disease and has nine first-author publications, having presented her research widely at national and international conferences. As an editorial trainee at the British Journal of Dermatology, she contributes to the review and development of dermatological research publications.