Christopher Ernest Maitland Griffiths (born June 1954) is Foundation Professor of Dermatology at the

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univ ...

, Director of the Manchester Centre for Dermatology Research, and Head of the Dermatology Theme of the

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(NIHR) Manchester Biomedical Research Centre. He is an Honorary Consultant Dermatologist at

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. Griffiths graduated with a first-class degree in Anatomy from St Thomas's Hospital Medical School in 1976 and completed an MBBS in Medicine in 1979. He trained in Dermatology at St Mary's Hospital, London, where he was a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Training Fellow from 1985 to 1987. In 1987 he became a research fellow in Dermatology at the

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, becoming an Assistant Professor from 1989 to 1993. He founded the Manchester Dermatopharmacology Unit and the Manchester Psoriasis Service in 1994, and co-founded the International Psoriasis Council in 2004. He was President of the British Association of Dermatologists from 2004 to 2005. He is a Fellow of the

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and an elected Member of

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. He was awarded the Sir Archibald Gray Medal for outstanding service to British Dermatology in 2015, and the Society of Cosmetic Scientists' Medal in 2016. He was made an OBE in the

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, for services to dermatology. He has an

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of 113.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Griffiths, Chris 1954 births Living people Alumni of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School University of Michigan faculty Academics of the University of Manchester Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom) Members of Academia Europaea Officers of the Order of the British Empire Presidents of the British Association of Dermatologists NIHR Senior Investigators