Jonathan N. Barker MD, FRCP, FRCPath

Dr. Jonathan Barker is Professor of Medical Dermatology at St John’s Institute of Dermatology, King’s College London, having been appointed in 1992, and Academic Head of Department since 2002.

Professor Barker is Co-Director of the Skin Therapy Research Unit and Head of the Psoriasis Service at the Institute, a tertiary referral service for patients with severe disease. His research interests focus on inflammatory skin diseases, particularly psoriasis, and extends from genetic discovery through to clinical outcome measurement. He is a chief investigator in an international consortium designed to map psoriasis susceptibility genes. He is deputy director of a multi-center MRC stratified medicine program in psoriasis outcomes to biologic therapy. He sits on the British Association of Dermatologists biologics outcomes registry steering committee.

Professor Barker has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers, authored and edited several books. Recent publications include those in Nature Genetics and the New England Journal of Medicine. He sits on the editorials boards of several dermatology journals. He is past President of the European Dermatology Forum and a Director of the International Psoriasis Council. He is Secretary-Treasurer of the European Society for Dermatological Research.