Useful resources for Healthcare Professionals
Skin Prick Testing
We hope you enjoy this St John's DermAcademy educational video for health care professionals. Professor Carsten Flohr and Dr Alexandra Santos will guide you through a practical demonstration of skin prick testing.
Research – Clinical Trials
The severe eczema and psoriasis teams at St John’s Institute are actively involved in clinical research in dermatology. This research provides a better understanding of what causes skin, conditions, provides the newest in skin treatment and personalises available therapies to individual patients to maximise their effect and minimise side effects. The research team run trials with the latest therapies emerging in the fields of eczema and psoriasis.
If you are interested in learning more about our research in eczema or psoriasis or taking part in clinical trials in these areas please click on this link to the Guy’s & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust website or you can email the team at DermatologyTrials@gstt.nhs.uk
Paediatric Dermatology – Unit for Population-Based Dermatology Research
The Unit for Population-Based Dermatology Research is based at the St Thomas’ Hospital Campus and headed by Carsten Flohr, Professor and Consultant Dermatologist, and conducts translational and clinical research into the prevention, epidemiology and treatment of skin diseases, with a particular focus on paediatric atopic eczema. This is done through collaboration on large cohort and intervention studies, such as the Enquiring About Tolerance (EAT) study, the PROmotion of Breastfeeding Intervention Trial (PROBIT), and the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC). The Unit also leads a national trial comparing the efficacy, safety and cost-effectiveness of cyclosporine with methotrexate in severe paediatric eczema (TREAT trial) as well as an eczema prevention trial with water softeners (SOFTER), and the UK-Irish Atopic eczema Systemic TherApies Register (A*STAR).
A national cohort study of adult and paediatric patients on conventional and novel biologic treatments for severe atopic eczema is currently in set up.
Other useful links for healthcare professionals
View our fellowships
Upcoming events
We run multiple events throughout the year. Healthcare professionals can attend our events to keep up to date about best clinical practice in dermatology and get clinical tips and advice from key speakers.
Mailing list
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