Areas of Expertise

Dr Emma Craythorne performs a range of treatments including:

• Mohs Micrographic Surgery
• Laser Surgery
• Cosmetic Dermatology
• Skin imaging – reflectance confocal microscopy

Some of the conditions she commonly treats are:

• Scarring
• Burns
• Skin cancer

About Dr Emma Craythorne

Dr Emma Craythorne is a Consultant Dermatologist at OneWelbeck Skin Health and Allergy. Dr Craythorne also holds clinical posts as a Dermatological and Laser Surgeon and Mohs Micrographic Surgeon at St Thomas Hospital NHS Trust and the St Johns Institute of Dermatology at Guys . Dr Craythorne leads the Specialist Skin Cancer Multi-Disciplinary Team.

She has expertise in all areas of skin cancer, skin scarring and general and cosmetic dermatology. She currently performs around 500 cases of complex Mohs surgery each year and is a mentor in training fellows in Mohs Micrographic Surgery.

Dr Craythorne is actively involved with multiple national and international research projects focused on skin cancer, scarring and non-surgical cosmetic procedures and has published these extensively in peer-reviewed scientific journals. She has published her work in numerous scientific journals; Authored multiple book chapters including her own complete textbook of dermatology and is known for her additional TV appearances.

Dr Emma Craythorne MBChB FRCP became a member of the Royal College of Physicians by completing her postgraduate Medicine and Surgery training in Edinburgh. She completed 4-year specialist training in dermatology at Kings College, London and joined the specialist General Medical Councils register as a Consultant Dermatologist.

Dr Craythorne undertook a Royal College accredited Fellowship in Mohs Micrographic Surgery and Laser surgery at the distinguished skin hospital St John’s Institute of Dermatology.

She is the current President of the British Cosmetic Dermatology Group, treasurer of the St Johns Dermatological Society and Trustee for the Cosmetic practice standards authority, responsible for ensuring that standards of care in non-surgical cosmetic practice is supreme.

Research Highlights

Dr Craythorne is actively involved with multiple research projects published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. She has authored multiple book chapters including her own textbook of dermatology.

Key Publications

• Pocket Tutor Dermatology 
• Dramatic response of metastatic cutaneous angiosarcoma to an immune checkpoint inhibitor in a patient with xeroderma pigmentosum: whole-genome sequencing aids treatment decision in end-stage disease.
  Momen S, Fassihi H, Davies HR, Nikolaou C, Degasperi A, Stefanato CM, Dias JML, Dasgupta D, Craythorne E, Sarkany R, Papa S, Nik-Zainal S. Cold Spring Harb Mol Case Stud. 2019 Oct 23;5(5):a004408. doi: 10.1101/mcs.a004408. Print 2019 Oct. PMID: 31645345
• Peri-oral papules. Maybury C, Craythorne E. BMJ. 2013 Feb 11;346:f750. doi: 10.1136/bmj.f750. PMID: 23401332
• Confocal microscopy facilitates the ‘one-stop-chop’. Craythorne E, Patalay R, Mallipeddi R. Br J Dermatol. 2017 Sep;177(3):614-615. doi: 10.1111/bjd.15766. PMID: 28940273
• Management of vulval melanoma in situ with imiquimod. Veraitch O, Lewis F, Craythorne E, Calonje E, Nath R. Br J Dermatol. 2019 Apr;180(4):947-948. doi: 10.1111/bjd.17433. Epub 2019 Jan 4. PMID: 30430545
• A 10-year review of surgical management of dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans. Durack A, Gran S, Gardiner MD, Jain A, Craythorne E, Proby CM, Marsden J, Harwood CA, Matin RN; DFSP Collaborators. Br J Dermatol. 2020 Jun 29. doi: 10.1111/bjd.19346. Online ahead of print. PMID: 32599647