After completing her medical studies at the Technical University of Dresden, Katja Schlömer Soares also obtained her Portuguese license to practice medicine with the state examination at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. After a year as an assistant doctor at the Centro Hospitalar do Oeste, Portugal, she completed her further training as a specialist in dermatology and venereology at the Helios University Hospital Wuppertal (2015-2021) and later at the Hautzentrum Wuppertal (2021-2023).

Her areas of experience include general dermatology, pediatric dermatology, allergology, dermatosurgery including laser therapies and aesthetic dermatology.

She has published various articles in renowned specialist journals such as the “Journal der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Dermatologie” and “Die Dermatologie”. Ms Schlömer Soares is writing her doctoral thesis on the topic of “Clinical, photobiological and allergological characterization of photoaggravated atopic dermatitis including the response to dupilumab”.

She is the mother of two children and is fluent in English and Portuguese.