Professor T J Ryan is working for the Department of Dermatology at the Churchill Hospital, Oxford and Jiao Tong University Xi'an, to promote an international collaboration for the retraining of village health care workers in the fields of skin care, sexually transmitted infections and leprosy. A partnership with the National Institute of Dermatology in Nanjing is the case of need, the feasibility and the cost of providing skin care, especially to Western China with its population of 450 million. 50 ethnic groups and languages under the heading of skin care is included in the management of wounds and burns.

Honorary appointments
Emeritus professor of Dermatology, Oxford University and Oxford Brookes University
Adjunct Professor of Dermatology - Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, USA
Honorary Professor - Institute for Microcirculation, Beijing

Appointments to International Dermatology
Past-Member of the International Committee of Dermatology
Past-Chairman of the International Foundation for Dermatology
Honorary President of the International Society of Dermatology
Honorary Foreign Member of 12 Dermatology Societies
Foreign Corresponding Member of National Academy of Medicine, Venezuela
Honorary Foreign Member, National Academy of Medicine, Brazil

Past Appointments
President, British Association of Dermatologists
President, European Tissue Repair Society
President, British Microcirculation Society
President, European Society for Microcirculation
President, World Congress for Microcirculation, 1984
President, Dowling Club
President, Dermatology Section RSM

Activities in the field of Leprosy
Honorary Medical Advisor, St Francis Leprosy Guild
Member of the Medical Advisory Board, LEPRA
Member of the ILEP Commission on the Sustainability of Leprosy Programmes - November 1995 Amsterdam
Member of the 7th Advisory Panel on Leprosy, WHO - June 1997, Geneva

As Chairman of the International Foundation for Dermatology, it was a requirement to take dermatology, sexually transmitted diseases and leprosy into general health services of the developing world. The regional Dermatology Training Centre, Moshi, Tanzania, a Collaborating Centre with WHO, is a principal focus for these activities. During the past four years, frequent visits to India, Vietnam and China have promoted a broad view of dermatology to include wound healing, skin hygiene and the management of lymphoedema. Advice to the Global Alliance concerned with the elimination of lymphatic filariasis is a principal interest at the present time and includes integration of Indian systems of medicine with western medicine.

As a Director of the Global Initiative for Traditional Systems (GIFTS) of health, the promotion of integration of traditional health with Western
medicine. Professor T J Ryan is now working to promote an international collaboration for the retraining of village health care workers in the fields of skin care, sexually transmitted infections and leprosy.

Publications
Author of more than 500 publications in the fields of dermatology, wound healing, microcirculation, the lymphatic system, leprosy, traditional medicine, etc.