Dr 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, and Merkel cell carcinoma. 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.