Dr. Mark Abdelmalek is a highly regarded, board-certified dermatologist, skin cancer surgeon, and ABC News reporter.  He is the founder of Dermatology of Philadelphia | Mohs Surgery Center which opened in Philadelphia in 2020.  As a fellowship-trained Mohs surgeon, Dr. Mark specializes in the precise surgical removal of skin cancer with expert reconstruction.  
 

Dr. Mark is on the clinical faculty at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He spent more than a decade in academic medicine culminating as the Interim Chair of the Department of Dermatology at Drexel University.  While at the forefront of academic medicine in Philadelphia, he partnered with premier faculty to train a generation of excellent dermatologists and conduct clinical research.  Dr. Abdelmalek’s clinical interests are caring for high-risk skin cancer patients and comprehensive skin care for organ transplant patients. 

Dr. Mark is also an award-winning medical and investigative reporter at ABC News.  As a frontline medical journalist, Dr. Mark plays an integral role in ABC News’ COVID coverage.  For more than a decade, he has worked alongside ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer sharing important stories of our time with television audiences of Good Morning America, ABC World News, 20/20, and Nightline.  In 2016, Dr. Mark received an Alfred I. duPont Columbia Award, one of the most prestigious honors in journalism, widely regarded as the equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize for broadcast news.  Dr. Mark has been nominated for a Peabody Award and four Emmy awards, including Outstanding News Special in 2020 about #Screentime and an ABC News Hidden America special in 2018 on hard working Americans struggling to stay in the middle class.

In 2016, Dr. Mark was honored by his peers with the prestigious Philadelphia Dermatological Society  ‘Founders Award’ for “devoting extraordinary time and talent as a teacher and clinician”.  He has also been recognized by Castle Connolly and Philadelphia magazine as one of Philadelphia’s “Top Doctors” and “Rising Stars in Medicine.”

Dr. Mark feels honored to bring academic excellence, compassion and conversation to the greater Philadelphia area community and patients.