Adam J. Tinklepaugh, MD

Dr. Tinklepaugh founded ADAMS and is one of its founding partners. He holds a clinical assistant professorship in the Department of Dermatology at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, where he teaches and trains medical students and dermatology residents at GW Medical Faculty Associates in Washington, DC. He is board-certified in both dermatology and Mohs micrographic surgery. His memberships and fellowships include the American Academy of Dermatology, the American College of Mohs Surgery, the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery, and the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology. He is one of the few American members of the European Society for Micrographic Surgery.

He earned his medical degree with distinction at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He then completed an internship at Intermountain Medical Center in Salt Lake City and a dermatology residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center in New York City. At the same institution he later finished fellowships in Mohs Micrographic Surgery and Dermatologic Oncology, and in Cosmetic Dermatologic Surgery.

For five years early in his career he taught as an assistant professor in the Department of Dermatology at the University of Utah School of Medicine, where he helped set up the ACMS/ACGME-accredited Mohs surgery fellowship. In 2022 he was named Assistant Fellowship Director of the Mohs surgery fellowship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, and that same year he started practicing in Manhattan and on Long Island.

His practice focuses on Mohs surgery for non-melanoma skin cancer, excisional surgery for non-melanoma and melanoma skin cancers, aesthetic and cosmetic procedures and surgery, and general and concierge dermatology. He has performed more than 10,000 cutaneous surgeries and cosmetic procedures. He has published 17 peer-reviewed original articles, written seven textbook chapters, and been invited to present at local, regional and national meetings. His aesthetic skincare advice appears on the practice's aesthetics page.