Desiree Ratner, MD, is clinical professor of dermatology at NYU Langone Health, where she specializes in Mohs micrographic surgery, cutaneous oncology, and facial reconstruction. She was director of dermatologic surgery at Columbia University Medical Center for over 15 years, and director of the Comprehensive Skin Cancer Center at Mount Sinai Beth Israel for over five years. Dr. Ratner has served on the board of directors for the American College of Mohs Surgery, the International Transplant Skin Cancer Collaborative, and the Association of Academic Dermatologic Surgeons. She has served as chair of the Sulzberger Institute of the American Academy of Dermatology and is past chair of the Procedural Dermatology section of the Association of Professors of Dermatology. Dr. Ratner is co-editor of the Dermatologic Surgery journal and associate editor for the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. She has authored or coauthored more than 100 publications, and has given over 100 presentations at national and international meetings. She has been listed as one Castle Connolly’s “Top Doctors” since 2005, and as one of New York Times “Best Doctors” since 2009.
Dr. Ratner completed her medical training at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; her internship in internal medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston; and her dermatology residency at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor. She did two years of fellowship training in Mohs micrographic surgery, reconstruction, and general dermatologic surgery with Dr. Donald Grande, first at New England Medical Center in Boston, and then at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Massachusetts.