Dr. Michael Heaphy is originally from Lima, Ohio. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and his medical degree from the University of Texas, Houston. Following an internship at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Heaphy spent a year in Latin America. He worked as a volunteer physician in the rainforests of Eastern Guatemala for an indigenous community development organization called Ak' Tenamit, which provides the only Western-style medical care for 126 remote Q’eqchi Maya villages. He also spent several months with the department of dermatology in one of South America’s leading infectious disease hospitals, Hospital Muñiz in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Dr. Heaphy completed his dermatology residency at Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio where he was named Chief Resident in 2003. That year he served as Resident Trustee for the Ohio Dermatological Association. Finally, Dr. Heaphy completed an additional two years of sub-specialty training in dermatopathology at the University of California, San Francisco under Drs. Philip LeBoit and Timothy McCalmont. During that time he also held a clinical instructorship at UCSF and practiced clinical dermatology at San Francisco General Hospital’s dermatology resident’s clinic.

Dr. Heaphy has published multiple articles and abstracts in the fields of clinical dermatology and dermatopathology and he enjoys teaching residents and students. He extends an open invitation to anyone interested in dermatopathology to take part in his dermatopathology sign-out sessions.