Dr. Douglas Pravda completed his dermatology residency at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Pravda then spent more than ten years as assistant clinical professor of dermatology at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center. He later served as Deputy Chief of dermatology at the US Public Health Hospital in Staten Island. He has decades of experience performing both surgical dermatology as well as cosmetic procedures. He also has special training in photobiology. Dr. Pravda has been in private practice for over forty years, caring for patients who continuously return for his attentiveness and bedside manner. In his spare time, Dr. Pravda can be found playing golf or tennis. He is a voracious reader, and wine connoisseur.