International Psoriasis Council

Advancing Knowledge. Improving Care.

Andrew

Pink

,

PhD

Consultant Dermatologist
St. John’s Institute of Dermatology, Guy & St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
London
,
United Kingdom
Councilor Since: September 1, 2019
IPC Councilor
Dr. Andrew Pink is a consultant dermatologist and the director of the adult Clinical Trials Unit at St. John’s Institute of Dermatology, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals, London. He is the deputy director of the South London National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Commercial Research Delivery Centre and an Honorary Senior Lecturer and Adjunct Senior Lecturer at King’s College London. He is an ex-Honorary Secretary of the St John’s Dermatological Society, a Councilor with the International Psoriasis Council (IPC), and Chair of the Annual United Kingdom (UK) Dermatology Course for Consultants. He is regularly a National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) clinical expert. His clinical and academic interests focus on inflammatory skin disease and translational medicine, primarily in psoriasis and eczema. Andrew has helped to develop a national multi-disciplinary eczema service and a very active trials unit (phase II-IV) at St. John’s. He has acted as Chief Investigator (CI) on multiple trials examining novel therapies emerging in psoriasis and eczema. He is the CI for the Best Evidence for Advancing Clinical Outcomes in National Eczema Treatment (BEACON) trial, a large UK multi-arm multi-stage platform trial designed to assess the comparative effectiveness of systemic therapies for moderate to severe eczema in adults.
Last Updated:
07/11/2025

Areas of Interest

Main interest – Clinical trial design and completion (Clinical trial lead at my centre – novel therapeutics for psoriasis and pustular psoriasis). Other interests – Clinical observational research, registry work, genetic/ personalization research (with Jonathan Barker and Catherine Smith).

IPC Committees / Groups

Fellowship Program Advisory Committee

Languages Spoken

English

Involvement with Other Organization(s)

Acted as clinical expert for NICE review of biologic therapies for psoriasis.

What's New

Use and Misuse of Systemic Corticosteroids in Psoriasis

In this Take Ten with IPC video, Professor Peter van de Kerkhof discusses the use and misuse of systemic corticosteroids in psoriasis. He questions whether they contraindicate the treatment of psoriasis, while also covering his personal experience in prescribing them.

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Thursday, May 14, 2026

Use and Misuse of Topical Corticosteroids in Psoriasis

In this Take Ten with IPC video, Professor Peter van de Kerkhof discusses the use and misuse of topical corticosteroids in psoriasis, covering current use, guidelines, and consequences.

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Thursday, May 14, 2026

Videos Now Available from the IEC & IPC Joint Symposium at AAD

Missed the joint symposium hosted by the International Eczema Council (IEC) and International Psoriasis Council (IPC) at the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) Annual Meeting? Select presentations from Psoriasis or Dermatitis? When Boundaries Blur and Treatments Flip the Script are now available, covering diagnostic overlap, emerging tools, treatment-related reactions, and practical strategies for managing complex cases across diverse patient populations.

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Wednesday, May 27, 2026