Josiah Hanson, MD, is a board-certified dermatologist and dermatopathologist at the UW Medical Center–Roosevelt Dermatology Center and the Fred Hutch Cancer Center. He is an Acting Assistant Professor in the UW Department of Dermatology and serves as the Medical Student Clerkship Director.

He believes in providing the most up-to-date and relevant information available to patients to engage them in their medical care, and to use evidence-based treatments whenever possible. He strives to be compassionate and accessible to patients, treating them as he expects his friends and family to be treated. He has a particular interest in connecting the patient’s individual experience of their dermatologic condition to the underlying microscopic changes occurring in their skin.

Dr. Hanson specializes in supportive oncodermatology and helping patients who are undergoing cancer treatments and experiencing skin side effects. He helps manage symptoms so they can continue treatment and diagnoses and treats primary skin cancers and skin lymphomas. In addition, he is a dermatopathologist who helps interpret and read skin biopsies under the microscope to make a diagnosis of cancers, benign growths and to identify rashes.

Read Dr. Hanson's research articles