Carsten Flohr

Carsten Flohr was born in Hannover, Germany, on 2 October 1968. He attended the Matthias-Claudius Gymnasium Gehrden, where he won the prestigious Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes prize, 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, 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 at Cambridge University to undertake a Master of Philosophy in the History of Medicine (1995), before moving to Balliol College 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  at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam (2004–2007), showing that gut parasites protect against allergic disease, one important reason why allergies are now so common in affluent country settings. While in Vietnam, Flohr also undertook a Masters of Science in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

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).

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.

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

He is a Founding Director of the International Eczema Council, Director of the Global Atopic Dermatitis Atlas and Past President of the British Society of Paediatric and Adolescent Dermatology (BSPAD), 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 and is Founding Editor of the Evidence-based Dermatology Section of the British Journal of Dermatology. Provided by Wikipedia