2025 Speaker Announcements

Sun Protection Conference 2025
24-25 June 2025
Royal College of Physicians, London

2025 Speakers so far

Professor Craig Sinclair

Head of Prevention
Cancer Council Victoria
 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
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  • Biography

    We are amazingly privileged to have Professor Craig Sinclair in-person, to open the Sun Conference with the first Keynote. For most in this industry, Professor Sinclair needs no introduction. He is the Head of Prevention at the Cancer Council Victoria, Australia, the Chair of the Technical Committee for Sunscreen Agents Australia, the Director of the World Health Organisation's (WHO) Collaborative Centre for UV Radiation and is also a recent recipient of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s ‘Montreal Protocol Award’ for his substantial contribution to human health protection. Prof Sinclair had led the worlds’ most coherent, successful and long-running public education campaigns in the prevention of skin cancer, in the country with its highest rate, and will speak to us directly from his vast, life-long experience.

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Professor Richard Weller

Professor of Medical Dermatology
University of Edinburgh
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  • Biography

    I graduated in medicine at St Thomas' Hospital, University of London (now part of King's College, London) and undertook my general/internal medicine training in the north of England and in Australia. Having gained my MRCP, I trained in dermatology at the Institute of Dermatology (St John's) in London and in Aberdeen and Edinburgh. I spent some time out of my clinical training to complete a research MD degree. Having completed my dermatology training, I gained a scholarship from the University of Edinburgh, and spent three years in postdoctoral research training in the laboratories of Professor Victoria Kolb-Bachofen, Heinrich-Heine Universität, Dusseldorf, and of Dr Tim Billiar, University of Pittsburgh, USA. I was recruited from America to the post of Senior Lecturer and, latterly, Reader in Dermatology and Principal Investigator at the Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh. My time is divided between clinical duties, where I am an honorary NHS Consultant Dermatologist with a particular interest in medical dermatology and eczema, and the University where I am active in research, particularly on the effects of UV on systemic health.

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    Excess ultraviolet radiation is a risk factor for skin cancer and photo-aging in white skinned people. Equally important however are the significant health benefits which sunlight produces, and the essential nature of these have probably driven the repeated evolution of pale skin phenotypes in humans who have moved to high latitude, low light environments. I have identified a vitamin D independent pathway by which sunlight releases nitric oxide from stores in the skin, to the circulation where it lowers blood pressure and thus cardiovascular disease. More recently, using the data from the UK Biobank, we have shown that for a UK population, increased sunlight exposure correlates with markedly reduced all cause, cardiovascular and cancer mortality. In view of the robust data that increased sunlight improves overall health, we must reconsider our attitude to sunlight protection.

Roman Mokry

Policy Officer
European Commission’s Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW)
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  • Biography

    Last, but certainly not least in this first announcement of Sun Conference speakers, we are equally delighted to welcome Roman Mokry to the stage, in-person. Mr Mokry is the Policy Officer within the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW), responsible for overseeing the re-opening and revision of the 2006 European Commission Recommendation on Sunscreen Products which, for 18 years, has formed the fundamental framework for the way sunscreen products are tested and labelled for half a billion consumers. Mr Mokry will provide to the Sun Conference audience a comprehensive update on this crucial process from his unique perspective.

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