Professor John Hawk, BSc, MD, FRCP, FRACP Hon, FACD, FRSA was Emeritus professor of dermatological photobiology at the St John's Institute of Dermatology, King's College, London. He trained medically, after being very near the top in the New Zealand end-of-school national scholarship examinations, at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand and dermatologically at the St John's Institute of Dermatology, London, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. He has written multiple scientific papers, chapters and books, was for years a major dermatological journal editor, has been on many journal editorial boards, lectures extensively worldwide, initiated the English care-in-the-sun campaign, leading to his invited appearance in or on many frontline newspaper articles, radio and television programmes and even magazines, helping prevent many skin cancer deaths there and worldwide thereby. He revolutionised thought and treatment concerning the 30 or so non-cancer skin diseases caused by sunlight, reclassifying th
