Dr Gayathri Perera

 Professional experience

• More than 25 years of experience
• Consultant Dermatologist at BMI Syon Clinic (present)
• Consultant Dermatologist at The Medical Chambers, Kensington (present)
• Consultant Dermatologist at West Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust (present)
• Specialist Registrar in Dermatology at St John's Institute of Dermatology (2001-2012)
• Research Fellow for Medical Research Council Clinical Training at St John's Institute of Dermatology, King's College London (2008-2011)
• Intensive Care Resident Medical Officer, High Dependency and Infectious Disease (2001-2002)

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 Sub-specialties

• General dermatology
• Inflammatory skin conditions
• Skin cancer
• Chronic inflammatory skin diseases such as acne, rosacea, eczema, psoriasis
• Medical dermatology such as lupus, autoimmune skin disease, blistering skin disease
• Paediatric dermatology
• Hidradenitis suppurativa

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 Education

• PhD in Immunopathology of Psoriasis, King's College London (2012)
• MRCP, Royal College of Physicians (2000)
• BM.BCh, University of Oxford Medical School (1997)
• Masters in Physiological Sciences, University of Oxford (1994)

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 Publications and conferences

• Perera GK, Ainali C, Hundhausen C, Barinaga G, Kassen D, Williams A, Mirza MM, Balazs M, Sanchez-Rodruguez R, Barker J, Tsoka S, Ouyang W, Nestle FO. Integrative biology approach identifies cytokine targeting strategies for psoriasis. Science Translational Medicine, 2014, 6: 223
• Villanova F, Flutter B, Tosi I, Grys K, Sreenebus H, Perera GK, Chapman A, Smith CH, Di Meglio P, Nestel FO. Characterisation of innate lymohoid cells in human skin and blood demonstrates increase of NKp44+ ILC3 in psoriasis. J Invest Dermatol 2013
• Taghipour K and Perera GK. Autoimmune blistering skin diseases. Medicine 2013, 41:7; 387-393.
• Ainali C, Valeyev N, Perera GK, Williams A, Gudjonsson JE, Ouzounis CA, Nestle FO, Tsoka S. Transcriptome classification reveals molecular subtypes in psoriasis, BMC Genomics 2012, 13 (1): 472.
• Perera GK, Di Meglio P, Nestle FO. Psoriasis. Annu Rev Pathol: Mechanisms of disease, 2012; 28 (7):385-422
• Di Meglio P, Perera GK, Nestle FO. The multitasking organ: recent insights into skin immune function. Immunity, 2011; 35(6):857
• Laggner U, Di Meglio P, Perera GK, Hundhausen C, Lacy KE, Ali N, Smith CH, Hayday A, Nickoloff B, Nestle FO. Identification of a novel pro-inflammatory human skin-homing Vγ9Vδ2 T cell subset with a potential role in psoriasis. J Immunol. 2011 Sep 1;187(5):2783-93
• Laggner U, Lopez J, Perera G, Warbey VS, Sita-Lumsden A, O'Doherty MJ, Hayday A, Harries M, Nestle FO. Regression of melanoma metastases following treatment with the n-bisphosphonate zoledronate and localised radiotherapy. Clin Immunol. 2009 Jun;131(3):367-73.
• Perera GK, Child FJ, Heaton N, O’Grady J, Higgins EM. Skin lesions in adult liver transplant recipients: a study of 100 consecutive patients. Br J Dermatol. 2006 May;154(5):868-72.

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 Prizes and awards

• Leading PI in Commercial Clinical Trials in CRN NIHR (2016 & 2015) - Dame Sally Davies, BAD House
• BSID Young Investigator Award (2012)
• Medical Research Council Clinical Training Fellowship (£250,000) (2007)

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 Professional membership

• British Association of Dermatologists
• Royal Society of Medicine
• British Society for Investigative Dermatology
• European Academy for Dermatology and Venereology
• Member of the Royal College of Physicians

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