Dr. Laura Fitzpatrick is a board-certified dermatologist practicing general and medical dermatology in Manhattan. With Bodhi Medical Group and Apple Pediatrics, she sees adults and children for skin cancer screenings, acne, psoriasis, rosacea, atopic dermatitis, warts, and other conditions.

Dr. Fitzpatrick graduated magna cum laude from Princeton with an A.B. in English and creative nonfiction writing. She earned her M.D. from Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Fitzpatrick completed her internal medicine internship at The Mount Sinai Hospital and her dermatology residency at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, where she served as Academic Chief Resident.

Dr. Fitzpatrick completed a melanoma research fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. She has published numerous peer-reviewed medical articles and co-edited a first-edition textbook on rheumatology/dermatology overlap disorders. She is a member of the American Academy of Dermatology, the Women’s Dermatologic Society, and the Dermatologic Society of Greater New York.

Prior to her medical career, Dr. Fitzpatrick spent two years as a writer and reporter on staff at TIME magazine, covering health, education, women’s issues and other topics. Her essays about medical training appear on Time.com and HuffPost, and her dermatologic history writing appears on Doximity, where she was an Author Fellow.

Before going into private practice, Dr. Fitzpatrick was an Assistant Professor of Dermatology at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. At Northwell she was also the Director of the Program for Dermatoses in Pregnancy & Lactation, an interdisciplinary partnership with the Katz Institute for Women's Health.

Dr. Fitzpatrick is attuned to both the physical and emotional impact of skin disease and takes into account each patient’s lifestyle and preferences when creating a treatment regimen. She lives in Manhattan and enjoys going to the theater, playing tennis in Central Park, and spending time with her husband and two children.