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Our team

Four clinicians, four rooms, four separate books

Each of them keeps their own schedule and their own examination room, and you book with a named person rather than with the practice. Here is who they are and how each of them works.

Dr. Amara Okafor-Reyes, Skin Cancer & Dermatologic Surgery at Woodside Skin Care

Dr. Amara Okafor-Reyes, MD

Skin Cancer & Dermatologic Surgery

Medical Director · Room 1 · here since 2009

Amara opened this practice in 2009 after nine years of hospital dermatology, and she is the reason every examination room has a dermatoscope in it rather than one being wheeled between them. She takes the difficult appointments: the mark somebody has been watching for two years, the patient who was told it was nothing and did not believe it, and the biopsy result that needs explaining slowly. She does most of the surgery in this building, and she is the person here most likely to tell you that the right answer is to leave something completely alone — and to explain what would change that answer.

  • Full skin examinations
  • Mole and lesion assessment
  • Skin surgery
  • Second opinions

English, Spanish

Dr. Yusuf Demirci, Inflammatory & Autoimmune Skin Disease at Woodside Skin Care

Dr. Yusuf Demirci, MD

Inflammatory & Autoimmune Skin Disease

Dermatologist · Room 2 · here since 2013

Yusuf runs the practice's phototherapy and patch-testing services and looks after most of the long-term inflammatory disease here. He sees a great many people who have been treated for years without ever being told what they actually have, and his first appointment usually goes back to the beginning: what it looked like when it started, what has been tried, at what strength, for how long, and what happened when it stopped. He is blunt about the fact that these conditions relapse, and equally blunt that relapsing is not the same as failing.

  • Eczema and dermatitis
  • Psoriasis
  • Hidradenitis suppurativa
  • Patch testing

English, Turkish, German

Dr. Priya Raghunathan, Pediatric & Adolescent Dermatology at Woodside Skin Care

Dr. Priya Raghunathan, MD

Pediatric & Adolescent Dermatology

Dermatologist · Room 3 · here since 2016

Priya sees the children, the teenagers and a fair number of adults who would simply rather be spoken to the way she speaks to a nine-year-old. Her appointments are longer because a child needs to be talked to before being examined, and because a parent who has been frightened by the internet needs the reasoning rather than the conclusion. She is the clinician here most likely to recommend doing nothing at all: a large share of what arrives in her room resolves on its own, and knowing which share is the skill.

  • Children's eczema
  • Birthmarks and vascular lesions
  • Warts and molluscum
  • Teenage acne

English, Tamil, Hindi

Marisol Castellanos, General Dermatology, Acne & Skin of Color at Woodside Skin Care

Marisol Castellanos, PA-C

General Dermatology, Acne & Skin of Color

Physician Assistant · Room 4 · here since 2018

Marisol carries most of the general dermatology here — acne, routine skin checks, the follow-ups that keep a chronic condition steady — and she has built the practice's approach to pigment change on darker skin, which is the complaint that brings more people through this door than any other single thing and the one most often dismissed elsewhere. She works alongside the physicians rather than behind them, and anything uncertain gets a second pair of eyes the same day rather than another appointment.

  • Acne
  • Pigmentation after inflammation
  • Routine skin checks
  • Follow-up appointments

English, Spanish, Tagalog

Skin Cancer & Dermatologic Surgery

Dr. Amara Okafor-Reyes, MD

Amara opened this practice in 2009 after nine years of hospital dermatology, and she is the reason every examination room has a dermatoscope in it rather than one being wheeled between them. She takes the difficult appointments: the mark somebody has been watching for two years, the patient who was told it was nothing and did not believe it, and the biopsy result that needs explaining slowly. She does most of the surgery in this building, and she is the person here most likely to tell you that the right answer is to leave something completely alone — and to explain what would change that answer.

How they work. Examine everything, sample anything genuinely uncertain, and never watch a mark that could be sampled instead. She would far rather take a biopsy that turns out to be nothing than monitor something for a year, and she will tell you the number of harmless things she removes for every one that matters, because that ratio is the honest cost of finding cancers early. Expect the whole skin to be examined at a first appointment.

Medical Director · Room 1 · here since 2009 · English, Spanish

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Dr. Amara Okafor-Reyes, Skin Cancer & Dermatologic Surgery at Woodside Skin Care

Inflammatory & Autoimmune Skin Disease

Dr. Yusuf Demirci, MD

Yusuf runs the practice's phototherapy and patch-testing services and looks after most of the long-term inflammatory disease here. He sees a great many people who have been treated for years without ever being told what they actually have, and his first appointment usually goes back to the beginning: what it looked like when it started, what has been tried, at what strength, for how long, and what happened when it stopped. He is blunt about the fact that these conditions relapse, and equally blunt that relapsing is not the same as failing.

How they work. Confirm the diagnosis before escalating the treatment, and treat properly rather than tentatively. Most under-treated eczema he sees is under-treated because everybody involved was frightened of steroids, so he writes down the strength, the site, the frequency and the date to stop, and he reviews it. Patients leave with a flare plan as well as a prescription.

Dermatologist · Room 2 · here since 2013 · English, Turkish, German

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Dr. Yusuf Demirci, Inflammatory & Autoimmune Skin Disease at Woodside Skin Care

Pediatric & Adolescent Dermatology

Dr. Priya Raghunathan, MD

Priya sees the children, the teenagers and a fair number of adults who would simply rather be spoken to the way she speaks to a nine-year-old. Her appointments are longer because a child needs to be talked to before being examined, and because a parent who has been frightened by the internet needs the reasoning rather than the conclusion. She is the clinician here most likely to recommend doing nothing at all: a large share of what arrives in her room resolves on its own, and knowing which share is the skill.

How they work. Explain it to the child, then to the adult. Treat what is causing trouble and leave alone what is only causing worry, and say clearly which is which. She will not chase a wart across a year of appointments when the alternative is waiting, and she will not leave a child scratching through the night because somebody was nervous about a cream.

Dermatologist · Room 3 · here since 2016 · English, Tamil, Hindi

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Dr. Priya Raghunathan, Pediatric & Adolescent Dermatology at Woodside Skin Care

General Dermatology, Acne & Skin of Color

Marisol Castellanos, PA-C

Marisol carries most of the general dermatology here — acne, routine skin checks, the follow-ups that keep a chronic condition steady — and she has built the practice's approach to pigment change on darker skin, which is the complaint that brings more people through this door than any other single thing and the one most often dismissed elsewhere. She works alongside the physicians rather than behind them, and anything uncertain gets a second pair of eyes the same day rather than another appointment.

How they work. Treat the inflammation first and the mark it left second, in that order, and say plainly that the order matters. She is unhurried with teenagers, she asks what has already been bought and tried before prescribing anything, and she is entirely comfortable telling somebody that the six products on their shelf are the problem rather than the solution.

Physician Assistant · Room 4 · here since 2018 · English, Spanish, Tagalog

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Marisol Castellanos, General Dermatology, Acne & Skin of Color at Woodside Skin Care

We claim nobody else's approval, and we name nobody's product. Dermatology is regulated in New York State, every physician here is licensed, and the practice is inspected like any other medical office. What we will not do is decorate this website with the seal of a board, a college or an academy as though somebody outside this building has personally vouched for the care you are about to receive. Nobody outside this practice has reviewed it. So instead of a wall of logos, these pages tell you plainly who will examine you, what they will do, what they will not do, what it costs, what can go wrong and how often. Ask us about any of it before you book.

Questions

Our team — the questions we are asked most

Why are there no letters after everybody's name?

Because post-nominal letters and board seals on a website are decoration, and they are designed to feel like verification. Everyone here holds the licence their role requires. What is more useful is on this page: who each person is, what they concentrate on, how they work, and what they are most likely to tell you.

Can I book with a specific clinician?

Yes — every appointment on the calendar is with a named person and you choose. Each of them keeps their own schedule, their own working days and their own room, so availability differs between them.

Will I see the same person each time?

For anything ongoing, yes, and deliberately. Chronic skin disease is managed far better by somebody who remembers what has been tried on you and what it did. If you would rather see somebody else, say so — it is an ordinary request.

What is a physician assistant, and is it different care?

A licensed clinician who diagnoses, examines, prescribes and manages conditions, working alongside the physicians rather than behind them. Marisol carries much of the general dermatology here. Anything uncertain gets a second pair of eyes the same day rather than another appointment on another week.

A named diagnosis and a written plan you leave holding

Book an appointment

Pick a physician and a time from the calendar — it shows only the hours each of them genuinely has free. A new patient appointment is thirty minutes, a full skin examination forty-five, and you leave with a named diagnosis written down. If something on your skin has changed, telephone instead and say that word: it is triaged differently.

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