Dr Gayathri Perera is a Consultant Dermatologist at Chelsea and Westminster Trust. She runs a Medical Dermatology service and a dedicated Biologics service where she sees adult and paediatric patients with severe psoriasis, eczema, urticarial and hidradenitis suppurativa. She runs a combined rheumatology clinic where she sees complex mixed connective tissue disease patients alongside her rheumatology colleagues. She is also the Specialty Group Lead for the NW London Comprehensive Research Network. Dr Perera undertook her medical training at University of Oxford gaining her MA in physiological sciences and degrees in medicine and surgery. She undertook her medical internship at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, and the Royal United Hospital, Bath. Dr Perera trained in Dermatology at St John's Institute of Dermatology, Guy's and St Thomas' Trust, London from 2002-2012. In 2007 she was awarded a 1 year Biomedical Research Centre Clinical Training Fellowship in Translational Medicine and then secured a prestigious Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Training Research Fellowship to undertake a 3 year period of research on psoriasis. She was awarded a PhD by King's College London in 2012. She is involved in running clinical trials in psoriasis and eczema, and teaches medical students, junior doctors, GPs, and Dermatology trainees.