K. Wade Foster, MD, PhD

Principal Investigator

Dr. Foster is a dermatologist, Mohs surgeon, physician-scientist, educator, and longtime Medical Director and founder of Florida Dermatology and Skin Cancer Centers.

He earned his PhD in Biochemistry and MD from the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, where he subsequently completed his dermatology residency. He later completed advanced procedural dermatology fellowship training at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

Dr. Foster has authored or co-authored more than 20 scientific and medical publications and has received recognition for his research and scholarship.

He remains actively involved in graduate medical education in Florida. FLDSCC serves as an external participating clinical education site for Florida State University College of Medicine residency programs based at BayCare Health System in Winter Haven, where Dr. Foster serves in site leadership and as a dermatology physician preceptor.

At FLDSCC Clinical Research, Dr. Foster serves as Principal Investigator, providing specialty dermatology leadership, clinical oversight, investigator supervision, and responsibility for the medical conduct of clinical trials.