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Carsten Flohr (Dermatologist)
Carsten Flohr (Dermatologist)
Citizenship	United Kingdom & Germany
Alma mater	Göttingen University University of Cambridge University of Oxford London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Nottingham University
Occupation(s)	Dermatology Consultant and Professor of Dermatology
Employer	King's College London
Known for	Paediatric dermatology
Awards	Canadian Institute of Health Research Inclusive Research Excellence Prizes Team Science and Open Science; Honorary Member of the Société Française de Dermatologie; National Clinical Excellence Award; National Institute of Health Research Career Development Fellow;

Carsten Flohr was born in Hannover, Germany, on 2 October 1968. He attended the Matthias-Claudius Gymnasium Gehrden,^[1] where he won the prestigious Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes prize,^[2] awarded to the top 1% of German secondary school graduates. Following a gap year in Taipei and Shanghai, Carsten Flohr co-enrolled in Medicine and Chinese Studies at Göttingen University,^[3] Germany, where he completed his pre-clinical studies with a distinction in 1993 and also later graduated with an MA in Chinese Studies (2000). Carsten Flohr then moved to Trinity College^[4] at Cambridge University to undertake a Master of Philosophy in the History of Medicine^[5] (1995), before moving to Balliol College^[6] at Oxford University to complete his clinical medical studies (1995–1998). He then trained in general medicine, paediatrics and dermatology in Oxford, Newcastle and Nottingham between 1998 and 2003, before being awarded the John Radcliffe Senior Research Fellowship from University College Oxford. This took him to study the links between helminth parasites and allergic disease^[7] at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam^[8] (2004–2007), showing that gut parasites protect against allergic disease, one important reason why allergies are now so common in affluent country settings.^[9]^[10] While in Vietnam, Flohr also undertook a Masters of Science in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.^[11]

Flohr was the first dermatologist to become a UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinician Scientist (2009–2014) and Career Development Fellow (2014–2020).^[12]

He is a Fellow of both the UK Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health and now works as an academic dermatologist in London, UK.^[13]

Flohr is Professor of Dermatology and Consultant Dermatologist at St John's Institute of Dermatology, Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust,^[14] where he is also Lead for Research and Development.^[15] Flohr also holds the Chair in Dermatology and Population Health Science at King's College London^[13] and is the Dermatology Specialty Lead for the South London National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Research Delivery Network.^[16]

He is a Founding Director of the International Eczema Council, Director of the Global Atopic Dermatitis Atlas^[12] and Past President of the British Society of Paediatric and Adolescent Dermatology (BSPAD),^[17] as well as an Honorary Member of the Société Française de Dermatologie for his contribution to cutaneous medicine research [7]. He leads the European management guidelines for atopic eczema^[18] and is Founding Editor of the Evidence-based Dermatology Section of the British Journal of Dermatology.^[19]

Awards

Joint winner Canadian Institute of Health Research Inclusive Research Excellence Prizes Team Science and Open Science for "Living systematic review and network meta-analysis of systemic immunomodulatory treatments for atopic dermatitis" 2023
Honorary Member of the Société Française de Dermatologie 2020
National Clinical Excellence Award 2021
National Institute of Health Research Career Development Fellow, 2014-2020
National Institute of Health Research Clinical Scientist, 2009-2014
President's Prize, Royal Society of Medicine Immunology Section, 2008
Barry Kay Award for best clinical scientific research, British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2007
Overseas Scholarship, German National Scholarship Foundation, 1995-1998
The John Friend Prize in Medical History, Oxford University, 1996
Trinity College Internal Scholarship, Cambridge University, 1994-1995
British Academy Scholarship, Cambridge University, 1994-1995
Scholar of the German National Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, awarded to top 1% of German of German university students 1991–1995)

Current research

Carsten Flohr has a particular interest in childhood atopic eczema and its links with other allergic diseases, evidence-based dermatology, dermato-epidemiology, and clinical trials.^[17] He has published over 270 peer-reviewed papers, with an H index of 70.^[20] He was Chief Investigator of the UK-Irish treatment of severe eczema in children trial (TREAT). He is also Chief Investigator of the UK-Irish Atopic Eczema Systemic Therapy Register (A-STAR), the European DREAM to TREAT AD study, the EU Horizon 2020 Joint Program Initiative-funded TRANS-FOODS and the Mind & Skin consortia.^[13] Carsten Flohr leads the International League of Dermatological Societies (ILDS) Global Atopic Dermatitis Atlas (GADA) project.^[12]

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^ ^a ^b Appleton-Claydon, Anna (2023-01-11). "BSPAD Annual Meeting 2022". British Society for Paediatric and Adolescent Dermatology. Retrieved 2024-08-20.
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