Dr Knight

Dr Lauren Knight is a Dermatologist that specializes in medical, surgical, and cosmetic dermatology across all ages in Cape Town. After completing her MBChB at the University of Cape Town, Dr Knight went onto do her internship at Groote Schuur Hospital and followed with her community service at the district hospital in Caledon.

While completing her Masters of Science in Medicine she worked as a medical officer at Groote Schuur where she enjoyed time spent in the Rheumatology clinic for its close connection to Dermatology.

Dr Knight completed her Dermatology specialist training at the University of Cape Town, with rotations at Groote Schuur Hospital as well as Red Cross Children’s hospital. Invaluable experience, trained by experts in the field has equipped her with the ability to manage a multitude of skin conditions aptly.

She enjoys working with her patients to not only treat and hopefully cure their conditions where possible, but also to lessen the burden the conditions may be placing on them. Dr Knight loves Dermatology and is forever grateful that she gets to live her passion on a daily basis.

Described by her patients as a competent, compassionate and warm doctor, she is waiting for the opportunity to meet you and walk your skincare journey with you.

The foundations

Welcome to my world.

A world consumed at the moment by trying to absorb all I can about the skin, hair and nails from the mountain of textbooks and patients we are lucky enough to manage.

Research

Dr Knight believes in practicing evidence-based medicine. She has been published in a number of peer-reviewed journals.

Publications
  • Knight LK, Gericke N, Pillay K, Hlela C. Progressively enlarging nodules over the distal interphalangeal joints of a 6-month-old boy. Int J Dermatol 2021 Jan;60(1):41-43. doi: 10.1111/ijd.15245. Epub 2020 Oct 13.

  • Lehloenya RJ, T Isaacs, Nyika T, Dhana A, Knight LK, Veenstra S, Peter J. Early high-dose intravenous corticosteroids rapidly arrest Stevens Johnson syndrome and drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms recurrence on drug re-exposure. J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2021 Jan;9(1):582-584.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.jaip.2020.08.012. Epub 2020 Aug 22.

  • Knight LK, Lehloenya RJ, Sinanovic E, Pooran A. Cost of managing severe cutaneous adverse drug reactions to first-line tuberculosis therapy in South Africa. Tropical Medicine and International Health volume 24 no 8 pp 994–1002 August 2019 doi:10.1111/tmi.13275.

  • Knight LK, Ngwanya M. Sarcoidosis of the scalp: the largest single-institutional case series. Int J Dermatol. 2019 Aug;58(8):e149-e151. doi: 10.1111/ijd.14483. Epub 2019 May 22.

  • Knight LK, Todd G, Muloiwa R, Matjila M, Lehloenya RJ. Stevens Johnson Syndrome and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis: Maternal and Foetal Outcomes in Twenty-Two Consecutive Pregnant HIV Infected Women. PLoS One. 2015 Aug 12;10(8):e0135501. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135501. eCollection 2015.

  • Knight LK, Muloiwa R, Dlamini S, Lehloenya RJ. Factors associated with increased mortality in a predominantly HIV-infected population with Stevens Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis. PLoS One. 2014 Apr 2;9(4):e93543. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093543. eCollection 2014.

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Derm Discovered

Derm discovered was initally born as a way to document her journey of becoming a dermatologist, but has developed into a calling to help patients discover their own skin path and journey, by allowing people to better understand their skin, skin concerns and the products that they are using or should be using. This is all in the hopes of minimising the impact skin conditions or concerns may have on the individual.

Dr Lauren Knight

MBChB (UCT) | MSc (Med) | FCDERM | MMed (Derm)

Room 305, 3rd Floor Library Square, Wilderness Road Claremont
info@dermdiscovered.co.za
Call: 021 879 3049

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