Professor Jemima Mellerio

Professor Jemima Mellerio completed her medical training at the London Hospital Medical College in Whitechapel where she also gained a first class BSc in Physiology. After completing her postgraduate medical training in North and East London, she undertook her specialist dermatology training at St John’s Institute of Dermatology and King’s College Hospital, London, joining the Specialist Register for Dermatology in 2002.

In 2003 Jemima was appointed as a Consultant at St John’s Institute of Dermatology, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, working in general adult and paediatric dermatology, with subspecialty clinics in adult epidermolysis bullosa (EB) and other genetic skin diseases. Between 2003 and 2017, she was the dermatologist for the Paediatric EB Service at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. At St John’s she has been the Lead for the Adult EB Service since 2003, Lead for Paediatric and Genetic Dermatology from 2006 until 2018, and Chief of Dermatology from 2018 to 2023.

Jemima Mellerio is an international expert in the diagnosis and management of genetic skin diseases including EB, ichthyosis, ectodermal dysplasia and other related disorders.

Undertaking an MD higher degree at St John’s in the genetics and clinical features of EB gave Jemima a firm scientific footing on which she has built a successful research career in genetic skin diseases and paediatric dermatology. She has over 150 peer-reviewed publications, has authored many chapters in pre-eminent textbooks of dermatology and also lectures both nationally and worldwide in her areas of expertise.  Her current research interests include translational therapies for genetic skin diseases and she is chief investigator on a long-term prospective project (PEBLES) exploring the natural history of recessive dystrophic EB.