Dr. Vishal A. Patel is an Associate Professor of Dermatology and Associate Professor of Medicine/Oncology at the George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences. He serves as the Director of Cutaneous Oncology at the GW Cancer Center and the Director of Dermatologic Surgery at the GW Department of Dermatology. He is a board-certified dermatologist as well as a fellowship-trained and board-certified micrographic dermatologic surgeon who specializes in cutaneous oncology and reconstructive surgery.
Dr. Patel is an expert in cutaneous oncology, including the medical and surgical management of melanoma, high-risk cutaneous squamous cell and basal cell carcinomas, as well as Merkel cell carcinoma. He earned his medical degree from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in Los Angeles, CA, and then completed his internship in internal medicine, his residency in dermatology, and his fellowship in micrographic surgery & dermatologic oncology at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University in New York, NY. His research interests focus on the use of topical, intralesional, and systemic adjuvant and neoadjuvant immunotherapy in high-risk cutaneous malignancies, as well as the role of artificial intelligence and gene expression profiling for risk assessment of skin cancers.
