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.….
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Garg A, Merola J, Fitzpatrick L (eds): Interdisciplinary Approaches to Overlap Disorders in Dermatology & Rheumatology, 1st ed. Springer International Publishing, 2022.
Patel AV, Jotwani PM, Fitzpatrick LJ, Gottesman SP. IgA vasculitis: a rare cause of rash, epigastric pain and melena. QJM. 2020;113(5):369‐370. doi:10.1093/qjmed/hcz232.
Treyster Z, Patel C, Fitzpatrick L, Finelt L, Kaplan B. Dapsone in the Management of Recurrent Skin Abscesses in Child with Cytokinesis 8 (DOCK8) Mutation. J Clin Immunol (2018) 38: 330.
Fitzpatrick L, Mauer E, Chen CL. Oral contraceptives for acne treatment: US Dermatologists' knowledge, comfort, and prescribing practices. Cutis. 2017 Mar;99(3):195-201.