Biography

Dr. Robert Sarkany is Consultant Dermatologist and senior Photodermatology Consultant at St John's Institute of Dermatology at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital , London.

He was previously Consultant Dermatologist at Mayday Hospital (1999-2002) and then at St Georges Hospital and Medical School (2002-2006) before taking up his current post.

He is an experienced Dermatologist for skin diseases of all types in children and adults. He is an international authority on sunlight sensitivity, sun allergy, and ultraviolet light therapy, and lectures around the world and writes widely on these subjects.

He led the Photodermatology Unit at St John's Institute of Dermatology from 2006-2023, one of the leading centres in the world for the treatment of skin diseases and of research into them, and is currently the senior Consultant in the Photodermatology Unit. He established the National Xeroderma Pigmentosum Centre there in 2010, the largest such centre in the world, and was one of the founders of the Rare Disease Centre at St Thomas' Hospital.