Christopher Rowland Payne

Christopher Rowland Payne is Consultant Dermatologist to The London Clinic.  He trained in London at St Bartholomew’s, St Thomas’s & Westminster Hospitals and in Edinburgh at the Royal Infirmary. Later, he was Professeur Universitaire at the Université de Paris-Créteil and Honorary Consultant Dermatologist to the Royal Marsden Hospital, London & Sutton.  He was Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology and President & Secretary-General of the European Society for Cosmetic & Aesthetic Dermatology.  He has published and presented papers on all aspects of dermatology, including skin cancer surgery, cosmetic dermatology & psychodermatology. He is co-author of the major international multiauthor textbook, “Cosmetic Medicine & Surgery”, and chairman of the European Academy of DermatoVenerology’s cosmetic dermatology task force.  In 2017, he was awarded the RSM’s Stevens Medal for his lecture, ‘Skin cancer and sun addiction’. He is currently in full time private clinical practice and is also Professor of Dermatology at the Ludes Lugano University Campus of Malta & Professor of Academic Cosmetic Dermatology at the Universita Roma-Marconi. In 2022, he was made an Honorary Member of the Serbian Association of Dermatovenereologists and was awarded the Centenary Diploma of the University of Belgrade School of Medicine. In 2024, he was elected Founding President of RSM Aesthetics Congress and President of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) Section of Aesthetic Medicine and Surgery.