Claudia completed her medical training at Imperial College at St Mary’s Hospital in London.  She was awarded several prizes during her medial training and achieved an intercalated BSc achieving a First Class award.  She completed her MB BS with Honours from the University of London in 1999. 

She completed her junior training in the London area and moved to Brighton for her dermatology training in 2004.  During her training she attended weekly autoimmune clinics St John’s Institute of Dermatology with Professor Martin Black and Dr Richard Groves. She completed research investigating the link between psoriasis and bullous pemphigoid. She was appointed as a consultant at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust in 2008. 

As a consultant she has developed a research infrastructure within dermatology at Brighton and also developed a research network across Surrey and Sussex.  She is the dermatology lead for the Clinical Research Network for Kent Surrey and Sussex.  

Her main areas of clinical interest are skin lesions including skin cancer, skin surgery and autoimmune skin conditions.  She attended the internationally renowned, Hugh Greenways Superficial Anatomy and Cutaneous Surgery course at the SCRIPPS research Institute, University of California San Diego to develop her surgical skills further and now regularly performs skin cancer surgery including flap and graft repairs