Orit Markowitz, M.D.

Qualifications

Dr. Orit Markowitz is an Associate Professor of Dermatology at Mount Sinai and at SUNY Downstate Downstate University Medical Center and has served as the Director of Pigmented Lesions and Skin Cancer at the Department of Dermatology Faculty Practice Mount Sinai Doctors for over ten years.

Additionally, she serves as the director of the Pigmented Lesions Clinic at the Brooklyn Veterans Hospital of Downstate University Medical Center. She has trained and certified many imaging fellows since 2010, and currently runs a fellowship in non-invasive imaging and early detection at SUNY Downstate Medical Center.

Dr. Markowitz's most recent funded imaging research spans the skin cancer spectrum from early diagnosis to optimal management; her work also investigates prognostic indicators of medications on disease such as field cancerization, psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, nail fungus and allergy patch testing.