Special expertise
Adults + Children + Inflammatory Skin Diseases + Psoriasis + Eczema + Rosacea + Skin Cancer + Mole Checks + Lumps and Bumps + Minor Skin Surgery
Profile
Dr Perera is a Consultant Dermatologist at West Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust and Specialty Group Lead for the NW London Comprehensive Local Research Network. Dr Perera undertook her medical training at the University of Oxford Medical School where she gained her MA in physiological sciences and medical 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’ NHS Foundation Trust, London in 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 for by King’s College London in 2012.
Dr Perera’s research and clinical interests lie in the treatment of inflammatory skin disease.