Dr Athina Fonia
Qualifications
BSc, MBBS, MRCP ( Derm) , Dipl Pharm Scie
GMC number: 6104356
Practising since: 2004
Specialties
Dermatology
Consultation times
- Tuesday AM
- Thursday AM
- Overview
About
Dr Athina Fonia is a UK-trained Consultant Dermatologist, registered on the Specialist Register of the General Medical Council.
She trained in medicine at King’s College London, after obtaining a First Class honours degree in Pharmacology at King’s College London. She is also the holder of a post-graduate Diploma in Pharmaceutical Development Sciences from the University of Brussels.
She undertook her specialist dermatological training in St John’s Institute of Dermatology in London and in hospitals in North and South Wales.
She developed a specialist interest in onychology (the study of the diseases of the nails) and she did a fellowship in nail surgery and nail diseases in Brussels (St Pierre and Brugmann University Hospitals) under the mentorship of a world-renowned professor in the same field. Dr Fonia is a member of the expert committee for the British Nail Society and she has written the patient information leaflets on the diseases of the nails for the same society.
Dr Fonia also specialises in general dermatology and has been the Lead of the Biologics Clinic in Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, where she was appointed as a NHS consultant.
Special interests
- Nail conditions – diagnosis and treatment
- Nail surgery
- General dermatology such as acne, rosacea, psoriasis, eczema, hidradenitis suppurativa, hair loss, mole check
- Skin cancer
- Botox injection treatment for hyperhidrosis
- Removal of moles or skin tags
- Steroid injections for hair loss or keloid scars.
Languages spoken
English, Greek, French
Locations Dr Athina Fonia works with
Related experience
Research
- 26433 Interventions for skin wellbeing clinics in for health care staff during the SARS-CoV2 outbreak: A perspective from London (UK)
- Onychalgia Causes and Mechanisms: The “GIFTED KID” and the “FOMITE”
- Cutaneous Paraneoplastic Syndromes with Nail Involvement
- Cutaneous Paraneoplastic Syndromes with Nail Involvement
- Toxic epidermal necrolysis and co‐existent SARS‐CoV‐2 (COVID‐19) treated with intravenous immunoglobulin: Killing 2 birds with one stone'
- Permanent alopecia in patients with breast cancer after taxane chemotherapy and adjuvant hormonal therapy: Clinicopathologic findings in a cohort of 10 patients
- A retrospective cohort study of the impact of biologic therapy initiation on medical resource use and costs in patients with moderate to severe psoriasis
- Antinuclear antibodies associate with loss of response to antitumour necrosis factor-alpha therapy in psoriasis: a retrospective, observational study
- Acral pseudolymphomatous angiokeratoma of children (APACHE)-like eruption in adult identical twins
- Active sensitization to chloracetamide
- Allergic contact dermatitis to Elaeagnus plant (Oleaster)
- The development of sarcoidosis on antitumour necrosis factor therapy: a paradox
Memberships
- British Association of Dermatologists
- British Society of Dermatological Surgery
- British Hair and Nail Society
- St John’s Dermatological Society
- Royal Society of Medicine
- European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology
Other posts held
- Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich, Consultant
Insurers Dr Athina Fonia works with
Dr Athina Fonia works with the following private medical insurance providers:
- Aetna
- Aviva Health
- AXA Health
- AXA - Global Healthcare
- Bupa
- Cigna
- Vitality Health (Pru Health)