Areas of Expertise

Professor Jane Setterfield performs a range of treatments including:

• General dermatology
• Mole checks and dermoscopy
• Skin, oral and genital biopsies
• Removal of cysts and moles
• Skin cancer treatments
• Cryotherapy

Some of the conditions she commonly treats are:

• Acne
• Eczema
• Psoriasis
• Oral conditions
• Skin rashes
• Skin cancer
• Lumps and bumps
• Autoimmune skin diseases
• Blistering diseases
• Mucocutaneous disease
• Vulval disorders

About Professor Jane Setterfield

Professor Jane Setterfield is a Consultant Dermatologist and Oral Medicine Specialist at OneWelbeck Skin Health & Allergy. She is an NHS consultant at St John’s Institute of Dermatology, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, and is Professor of Oral and Dermatological Medicine at King’s College London.

She has over 25 years’ experience in the full range of adult general dermatology with specialist interests in complex medical dermatology, autoimmune diseases, and oral and genital skin diseases. She currently leads the oral dermatology service at Guy’s hospital. She is an international expert in autoimmune blistering diseases, has an active research programme at KCL and has multiple publications.

Professor Setterfield is a member of many professional bodies and is a medical advisor for the patient support groups Behcet’s UK and Pemfriends.

Professor Jane Setterfield qualified in Dentistry from Barts and the Royal London Hospital and in Medicine from University College Hospitals, London. She trained in Dermatology at St John’s Institute of Dermatology where she is an Honorary Consultant in Dermatology and an Oral Medicine Specialist. She has undertaken research in the University of Connecticut and continues her research at King’s College London.

Research Highlights

Professor Jane Setterfield has achieved multiple publications in peer-reviewed journals:

Key Publications

• Autoantibody detection for diagnosis in direct immunofluorescence negative mucous membrane pemphigoid: ocular and other sites compared Dart, J., Setterfield, J., Groves, R. W., Mee, J. B., Diercks, G. F. H., Pas, H. H. & Minassian, D., Ophthalmology. 2020 Jul 31:S0161-6420(20)30740-5. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2020.07.052
• Mucous membrane pemphigoid and oral blistering diseases Carey, B. & Setterfield, J. F., Clin Exp Dermatol. 2019 Oct;44(7):732-739. doi: 10.1111/ced.13996
• Validation of an Oral Disease Severity Score (ODSS) tool for use in oral mucous membrane pemphigoid Ormond, M., Mcparland, H., Thakrar, P., Donaldson, A. N. A., Andiappan, M., Cook, R. J., Escudier, M. E., Higham, J., Hullah, E., Mcmillan, R., Taylor, J., Shirlaw, P. J., Challacombe, S. J. & Setterfield, J. F., Br J Dermatol. 2020 Jul;183(1):78-85. doi: 10.1111/bjd.18566.
• The optimal oral biopsy site for diagnosis of mucous membrane pemphigoid and pemphigus vulgaris Carey, B., Joshi, S., Abdelghani, A., Mee, J., Andiappan, M. & Setterfield, J., Br J Dermatol. 2020 Mar;182(3):747-753. doi: 10.1111/bjd.18032.
• Genome-wide association study in frontal fibrosing alopecia identifies four susceptibility loci including HLA-B*07:02 Tziotzios, C., Petridis, C., Dand, N., et al. Nat Commun. 2019 Mar 8;10(1):1150. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-09117-w.
• British Association of Dermatologists’ guidelines for the management of pemphigus vulgaris 2017 Harman, K. E., Brown, D., Exton, L. S., Groves, R. W., Hampton, P. J., Mohd Mustapa, M. F., Setterfield, J. F. & Yesudian, P. D., Br J Dermatol. 2017 Nov;177(5):1170-1201. doi: 10.1111/bjd.15930.
• Vulval Crohn’s disease: a clinical study of 22 patients Laftah, Z., Bailey, C., Zaheri, S., Setterfield, J., Fuller, L. C. & Lewis, F., Crohns Colitis. 2015 Apr;9(4):318-25. doi: 10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjv037.
• Efficacy of mycophenolate mofetil in severe mucocutaneous lichen planus: a retrospective review of 10 patients Wee, J. S., Shirlaw, P. J., Challacombe, S. J. & Setterfield, J. F., Br J Dermatol. 2012 Jul;167(1):36-43. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.2012.10882.x.