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Mark Abdelmalek, M.D.
Mohs Surgeon | Dermatologist | ABC News Reporter & Medical Contributor
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.
Certifications & Memberships:
Board Certified Diplomate, American Board of Dermatology
Fellowship-trained Fellow, American College of Mohs Surgery
Fellow, American Academy of Dermatology
International Transplant Skin Cancer Collaborative
Philadelphia Dermatological Society, Past-President
Atlantic Derm Conference, 2015 Overall Chairperson
Philadelphia College of Physicians- Section of Dermatology, Past-President
Areas of specialty:
Dermatology
Mohs Surgery
Skin Cancer
Melanoma
High-risk Skin Cancer
Transplant Dermatology: Comprehensive Skin Care for Organ Transplant Patients
Education & Training
Undergraduate: Penn State University, Schreyer Honors College
Medical School: Drexel University
Internal Medicine Internship: Hahnemann University Hospital
Dermatology Residency: Drexel University College of Medicine
Chief Resident: Drexel University, Department of Dermatology
Mohs Micrographic Surgery Fellowship: American College of Mohs Surgery- Laser & Dermatologic Surgery Center, St. Louis, MO
Awards and Honors
2021 Top Doctors™ Philadelphia Magazine
2020 Top Doctors™ Philadelphia Magazine
2019 Top Doctors™ Philadelphia Magazine
2018 Top Doctors™ Philadelphia Magazine
2017 Top Doctors™ Philadelphia Magazine
Philadelphia Magazine: Selected as one of Philadelphia’s rising stars in Medicine
Founders Award, Philadelphia Dermatological Society
Journalism Awards
Edward R. Murrow Award for Overall Excellence in Television, ABC News, 2020
Emmy® nominee. Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a Newsmagazine. “Triumph in Thailand” ABC News 20/20, 2019
Edward R. Murrow Award for Overall Excellence in Television, ABC News, 2019
Emmy® nominee, ABC News, My Reality: Hidden America, 2018
Peabody Award nominee, ABC News Hidden America Series, 2017
Deadline Club Award, ABC News Hidden America Series, 2017
GRACIE Award, 2017
Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award, ABC News, 2016
Edward R. Murrow Award for Overall Excellence in Television, ABC News, 2016
Emmy® nominee, ABC News, 2017
GLAAD Media Award: Outstanding TV Journalism – Newsmagazine, ABC News, 2016
ABC News Storytelling Challenge Winner- Best new use of live stream storytelling, 2015
Edward R. Murrow Award for Overall Excellence in Television, ABC News, 2015
Salute to Excellence Television Finalist- National Association of Black Journalists, ABC News, 2015
Edward R. Murrow Award for Overall Excellence in Television, ABC News, 2014
Food Bank for New York City Honoree, 2013
MORE Award: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), ABC News, 2012
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