Biography
Jemima Mellerio is a consultant dermatologist and honorary Professor of paediatric dermatology. She is the lead of paediatric and genetic dermatology, the adult epidermolysis bullosa service and the Rare Diseases Centre.
Professor Mellerio trained in medicine in London and undertook her doctor of medicine research and much of her clinical training at St John’s Institute of Dermatology and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust as well as King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. She became a consultant in 2003 and has worked at both Guy's and St Thomas' and, until 2017, at Great Ormond Street Hospital. She specialises in children's dermatology and genetic conditions affecting the skin.
- Medicine – London Hospital Medical College, University of London
- MD: Genotype-Phenotype correlation in epidermolysis bullosa – University of London FRCP
- children's dermatology
- epidermolysis and other skin fragility disorders
- ichthyosis, keratodermas and other disorders of keratinisation
- ectodermal dysplasias
- other genodermatoses
- epidermolysis bullosa and other genetic skin diseases
- emerging translational treatments including cell and gene therapy
- chief investigator on a longitudinal prospective study, PEBLES, documenting the natural history of recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa
Profesor Mellerio sits on the following:
- Medical and Scientific Advisory Panel for the Dystrophic epidermolysis Bullosa Research Association (DEBRA) – member
- Section of Dermatology, Royal Society of Medicine – member and president elect
- Executive Committee, British Society of Paediatric Dermatology – member
- European Reference Network, Skin, Epidermolysis Bullosa Sub-thematic Group – co-chair
- Foundation Rene Touraine Scientific Board – member
- British Journal of Dermatology – associate editor
- St John’s Institute of Dermatology Medical Committee – chair
- Biennial Symposium on Epidermolysis Bullosa, Santiago, Chile – co-director
She has over 140 peer-reviewed publications and lectures widely nationally and internationally.