Dr Veronique Bataille trained at the Louvain Medical School in Brussels and graduated in July 1985 with magnum cum laude. She worked in many teaching hospitals in London and started her dermatology training at St John's Institute of Dermatology at St Thomas Hospital in 1989. She then moved to the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in Holborn and the Royal London Hospital as a clinical research fellow where she completed her PhD on the genetic epidemiology of skin and eye melanoma in 1995 under the supervision of Professor Julia Newton Bishop, Professor Jack Cuzick and Professor Tim Bishop.

In 1993, Dr Bataille had the opportunity to spend several months in the Sydney Melanoma Unit in Australia, one of the busiest melanoma unit in the world. In 1994, she moved to St George's Hospital in London where she spent 2 years as a Senior Registrar also working in the Pigmented Lesion Clinic and Melanoma Clinic.

Dr Bataille became an accredited consultant dermatologist in 1996 and is on the specialist registry for dermatology of the UK General Medical Council. In 1996, she was appointed Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Dermatologist at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry where she continued her interest in the genetics of melanoma and other skin cancers. At Barts and the London Hospital, she was the lead clinician for the provision of clinical services in melanoma. She also supervised research fellows, research nurses and lab technicians on various projects on skin cancers. Dr Bataille is currently working at the West Hertfordshire Trust where she is also providing specialised care for patients with skin cancers.

Over the last 8 years, Dr Bataille has also set up many projects at the Twin Research Unit at St Thomas Hospital in London where she has studied the genetic influence on common skin disorders such as acne, eczema, psoriasis and moles in more than 2000 twins. She has been trained in many aspects of medical statistics using the Stata and the Mx software.

Dr Bataille became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in May 2000.

Dr Bataille has published in many dermatology, genetic and cancer journals and has presented abstracts at national and international meetings over the last 13 years. She regularly writes reviews and book chapters on skin cancer and reviews manuscripts for many dermatology journals. She is assistant editor for the Clinical and Experimental Dermatology Journal.

Since 1996 Dr Bataille has acted as a consultant and advisor for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. In 2003, Dr Bataille was appointed as the dermatology consultant for L'Oreal Paris.

Dr Bataille also practices privately at Princess Grace Hospital, London where she sees patients with all dermatological conditions but specialises in skin cancers, melanoma, familial melanoma, atypical naevi and family cancer syndromes.

  Memberships of medical associations

• Medical Defence Union.
• Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. UK
• British Medical Association
• British Association of Cancer Research
• British Association of Dermatologists
• British Society of Investigative Dermatology
• Dowling Club
• Royal Society of Medicine
• New York Academy of Sciences
• Melanoma Study Group
• British Photodermatology Group

  Selected Publications

V Bataille, P Sasieni, J Cuzick, J Hungerford, A Swerdlow and JA Newton. Risk factors of ocular melanoma in relation to cutaneous and iris naevi. International Journal of Cancer 1995;60:622-626.

V Bataille, P Saseini, E Pinney, K Griffiths, A Swerdlow, J Cuzick, JA Newton Bishop. Risk of cutaneous melanoma in relation to the numbers, types and sites of naevi. A case-control study. Brit J Cancer 1996;73:1605-1611.

V Bataille, A Grulich , A Swerdlow, P Saesini , W McCarthy, P Hersey, JA Newton, J Cuzick. Sun exposure does influence the naevus phenotype. A comparison of 2 case-control studies in the UK and Australia. Brit J Cancer 1998;77:505-510.

JA Newton Bishop, M Harland, DC Bennett, V Bataille, AM Goldstein, MA Tucker, BAJ Ponder, J Cuzick, P Selby and DT Bishop. Mutation testing in melanoma families: INK4A, CDK4 and IKN4D. British Journal of Cancer. 1999;24:286-290.

V. Swale, A Quinn, I Dove-Edwin, H Thomas, N Beck, W. Bodmer and Bataille V. Microsatellite instability in benign cutaneous lesions of patients belonging to Hereditary Non Polyposis Colon Cancer families. Journal of Investigative Dermatology 1999;113:901-905.

V. Bataille, H Sneider, A MacGregor, P Sasieni and TD Spector. Genetics of cutaneous traits associated with increased melanoma risk. A UK twin study. Journal National Cancer Institute 2000;92:457-463.

V Bataille, H Snieder, A MacGregor and TD Spector. The genetics of acne in a female UK twin population. Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 2002;119:1317-1322.

V Bataille, A Winnett, P Sasieni, A Swerdlow, JA Newton Bishop and J Cuzick. Exposure to the sun and sunbeds, and the risk of cutaneous melanoma in the UK. A case-control study. European Journal of Cancer. 2004;40:429-435..

Bataille V, Kato BS, Falchi M,. Gardner J, Kimura M et al. Naevus size and number are associated with telomere length and represent potential markers of decreased senescence in vivo. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2007;16: 1499-1502

Bishop JN, Bataille V, Gavin M, Lens M et al. The prevention, diagnosis, referral and management of melanoma of the skin. Concise guidelines. Clin Med 2007; 7:283-289

Lens M, Nathan P and Bataille V. Excision margins for primary cutaneous melanoma. updated polled analysis of randomized controlled trials. Arch Surg 2007;142:885-891.

  Review articles

Bataille V. Genetics of familial and sporadic melanoma. Clinical and Experimental Dermatology 2000;25:464-470.

Bataille V. Genetic Epidemiology of Melanoma. Eur J Cancer. 2003;39:1341-1347.

  Book Chapters

JA Newton and V Bataille. The Atypical Mole Syndrome- definition of phenotype. The epidemiology of melanoma, Vancouver. Editors Gallagher RP and Elwood JM. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Boston 1994.

V Bataille. Melanoma Screening Chapter. BMJ Evidenced Based Oncology. Eds Chris Williams, Vivien Bramwell, Xavier Bonfill, Jack Cuzick, John F Forbes, Robin Grant, David Guthrie, Malcolm Mason, Peter Simmonds, Arun D Singh, Rosalyn Weston and Hywell Williams. June 2003. BMJ Publishing Group 2003.

  Contact Details

Private Practice Princess Grace Hospital, Outpatient Department 47 Nottingham Place, London W1U 5LZ Tel: Practice Manager Taz Shirley on 0207 043 4915 Fax: 0207 043 2963 Urgent enquiries: 07932 708793 Email: bataille@doctors.org.uk E-mail for appointments: taz.shirley@medicalfederation.com		Spire Harpenden Spire Harpenden Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 4BP Tel: 01582-763191
Private Secretary Shirley Cannon Tel: 07929 537274 Email: shirley.cannon@whht.nhs.uk		NHS Secretary Tel: 01442-287467