Melda Isaac, MD

Melda Isaac, MD, runs MI Skin Dermatology and Laser Center in Washington, DC, which she founded in 2001 and directs. She is a board-certified dermatologist who works in both medical and cosmetic dermatology. She earned her medical degree at Penn State University and trained in dermatology at George Washington University Hospital, where she was accepted into the dermatology residency in 1991. She has held academic posts as an Assistant Professor of Dermatology at Hahnemann University Hospital and in the University of Pennsylvania Department of Dermatology in Philadelphia, and has taught and consulted at Washington Hospital Center and Sibley Memorial Hospital in DC. Injectables have been a core part of her work since she was first introduced to injecting BOTOX for cosmetic use in 1995, and she has more than 20 years of experience with injectables. She performs more than 2,000 injectable treatments a year and has performed over 25,000 since January 2000. She completed specialty training in BOTOX and Restylane in Vancouver, BC, in 2002. Beyond injectables, she works in laser resurfacing, skin cancer care, acne and acne scar treatment, and rosacea, and treats autoimmune diseases, drug rashes and seborrheic dermatitis. Patients have been under her care since the late 1990s. She was named a Washingtonian Top Doc each year from 2019 to 2025 and a Castle Connolly Top Doctor for 2024 to 2026. She is named among Washington, DC's top dermatologists and performs the most BOTOX treatments in the area. She is a member of the American Academy of Dermatology, the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery, the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery, the Women's Dermatologic Society and the Washington DC Dermatologic Society.