Dermatology
Our award-winning dermatology department is known as the St John's Institute of Dermatology. It opened in 1863, and is now one of the world's leading centres for patients with skin disease. We are the largest clinical dermatology department in the UK.
We treat a range of skin diseases, including rare and very severe conditions that require treatments not available elsewhere in the UK. We are also an internationally recognised centre of research.
Core clinics
- General Dermatology
- Skin Cancer
- Children’s dermatology
- Community dermatology
Specialities
- Children's dermatology
- Community dermatology, Lambeth and Southwark
- Cutaneous lymphomea
- Dermatology surgery and laser unit
- Extracorporeal photopheresis
- General dermatology
- Genetic skin disease
- Adult epidermolysis bullosa (EB)
- Adult genodermatoses
- Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP)
- GVHD
- Hair and nails
- Hives (urticaria)
- Immunobullous
- Oral dermatology
- Other services:
- Dermatology day care
- Mycology lab
- Psychology
- ECP
- Laser
- PDT
- Moh's micrographic surgery
- Patch testing
- Photodermatology
- Specialist inflammatory
- Severe eczema and allied allergic disease
- Severe psoriasis
- Severe urticaria
- Severe hidradenitis suppurativa
- Severe paediatric
- Skin allergies (patch testing)
- Skin cancer
- Melanoma
- Atypical mole
- SCC surveillance
- Transplant surveillance
- Gorlin's
- DSLU
- Lentigo maligna (confocal)
- Tertiary general dermatology
- Vascular anomalies
- Vitiligo
- Women's dermatology
Dermatology Day Care
Our Dermatology Day Care (DDC) provides facilities for a range of treatments or investigations. These are for when you do not need a full hospital admission, but need more care than is normally given during an outpatient clinic appointment.
Our consultants
Parastoo Babakinejad
Emma Benton
Barbara Carey
Nemesha Desai
Felicity Ferguson
John Ferguson
Clive Grattan
Richard Groves
Emma Howard
Ruth Lamb
Andrew Markey
John McGrath
Sophie Momen
Kristina Semkova
Khushboo Sinha
Bjorn Thomas
Christos Tziotzios
Kim Varma
Research and clinical trials
Research is vital to improving the care that you receive when you're unwell. You can help improve healthcare by taking part in research studies at our Trust. During your appointment, ask your healthcare professional about research. They'll be happy to tell you about research studies you could be eligible to join.
You can email dermatologytrials@gstt.nhs.uk for more information.
Last updated: June 2025
