Understanding Diseases in Skin of Color

Dr Inyang Ukot is an alumnus of College of Medicine of the University of Lagos, Nigeria (1981). He holds Fellowships in Family Medicine from the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria (1991) and the West African College of Physicians (1995). He also holds a Diploma in Occupational Medicine from the Royal College of Physicians of London (2005) #00005745. He was the coordinator of training in his faculty in the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria between 1995 and 1999. He is an examiner in Family Medicine with both the West African College of Physicians (WACP) and the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria (NPMCN). In 1991 he became the pioneer family physician head of department (HOD) of the Outpatients Department in the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Nigeria, at age 34. As the Trainer on full-time contract, Dr. Ukot led the young consultants in the Department of Family Medicine, enabling the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital to obtain its first accreditation for residency in Family Medicine – numerous consultants and lecturers are products of that service with the first product now a professor in family medicine. In his working experience, he also rendered medical services in the petroleum industry for ExxonMobil and Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Dr Inyang Ukot was one of the two specialist doctors who led the medical services department for United Bank for Africa (UBA) in the mid-90s 1990s. He is the author of the first textbook of family medicine emanating from the West African sub-region and is still actively practicing and writing books in his specialty, while now leading RST Clinics Ltd., Uyo, Nigeria as CEO and medical director.