Vitiligo Clinical and Research Centre now accepting referrals
We are pleased to share that Vitiligo Society Medical and Scientific Panel Member, Dr Viktoria Eleftheriadou has recently established a new vitiligo treatment centre. The Vitiligo Clinical And Research Centre (Vitiligo CARE) will be open to adult and paediatric patients at Walsall Healthcare & The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trusts. The centre will be conducting clinical research to support the development of new treatments as well as more traditional treatments, as recommended by the British Association of Dermatologists (BAD).
Vitiligo CARE is a unique, national vitiligo research centre and centre of excellence in the heart of Midlands. At Vitiligo CARE, research trials on innovative treatments for vitiligo are being conducted and treatments recommended by the British Association of Dermatologists guidelines are offered to patients under one roof. For example, we are the only hospital in England offering [home handheld phototherapy] to our paediatric and adult patients with vitiligo
The centre offers opportunities to Dermatology Specialty Trainees, nurses and other healthcare professionals to get involved in national and international research projects and will increase participation in NIHR portfolio. I am fortunate to have a very experienced team of NIHR nurses, who are instrumental in running interventional and observational studies on vitiligo and an enthusiastic group of junior doctors and consultant colleagues, who share my passion for research.
~ Dr Viktoria Eleftheriadou
Dr Viktoria Eleftheriadou
Dr Viktoria Eleftheriadou is a Consultant Dermatologist at Walsall Healthcare & The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trusts. Her research interests include vitiligo and skin pigmentary disorders, evidence-based dermatology, trials methodology, outcome measures and qualitative research. She was awarded her PhD on vitiligo in 2013, which was conducted at the Centre of Evidence Based Dermatology, UoN and funded by the NIHR. She is the lead author of recently updated national British Association of Dermatologists guidelines for the management of vitiligo 2021. Currently, she is working on several projects including observational study and registry for vitiligo patients and a clinical trial on the effectiveness of psychological interventions for the management of vitiligo. She has published over 50 peer reviewed articles and is a Section Editor for the British Journal of Dermatology, one of the top 3 Dermatology journals in the world. She has used her medical knowledge to support The Vitiligo Society for a number of years and spoken at our Research Summits.
Walsall Healthcare & The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trusts
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust provides local general hospital and community services to around 260,000 people in Walsall and the surrounding areas. The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest acute and community providers in the West Midlands, and operates over a number of sites across the area.
How to receive treatment and get involved
The Vitiligo Clinical And Research Centre (Vitiligo CARE) is accepting referrals from outside of the Midlands area. You will need to request that your GP (or Consultant Dermatologist) refer you via the normal referral route to Walsall Manor Hospital indicating that this is for potential trial participation and that the diagnosis of vitiligo has been made by a consultant dermatologist.
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