Professor Richard Stratton

Professor Richard Stratton is a consultant physician general internal medicineand rheumatologist at the Cleveland Clinic London. He specialises in connective tissue diseases such as scleroderma and lupus, systemicvasculitis and antibodytherapy.

Professor Stratton qualified in 1998 at the University of London and completed further studies in medicine at the University of Oxford. He undertook training at Guy’s Hospital in London and the Royal Free Hospital, and a visiting research fellowship at FibroGen in California where he studied the regulation of pro-fibrotic growth factors in scleroderma. In 2006, he was awarded a PhD for a thesis undertaken at the University College London, after which he was appointed consultant at the Royal Free Hospital in 2003 and associate professor in Experimental Medicine at University College London’s Centre for Rheumatology.

In addition to his clinical practice, Professor Stratton is a researcher, developing innovations to treat inflammatory fibrosis using approaches such as anti-inflammatory peptides and enzymes involved in collagen alignment.