PHYSICIAN CEO 2020 Participant Directory

Michael Jay Bernhardt, MD is a board certified dermatologist. He graduated from Emory University School of

Medicine in 1980. After a transitional internship he then went to the University of Alabama Birmingham for his

dermatology residency.

He opened his private practice in Jacksonville Florida in 1984. From the outset he was heavily involved in

teaching, training family medicine and internal medicine residents as well as medical students physician assistant

students and nurse practitioner students.

He was the first dermatologist at the time to be selected president of the Duval County Medical society in its at

that time 151 year history. He edited the journal North Florida Medicine for three years. He had been involved

in research doing sophisticated clinical trials on a variety of biological agents for psoriatic and eczematous

diseases. He is a past chair of dermatology at St Vincent’s medical center and was faculty in the st Vincent’s

family medicine and the UF Shands family medicine residency.

After selling his practice he relocated to Scottsdale Arizona joining the Center for Dermatology where he

practices today. He specializes in dermatoscopic evaluation of pigmented and non pigmented skin cancer,

biological agents for treating psoriasis and atopic dermatitis, as well as treatment of other skin conditions.

Outside of medicine he is a proud husband and father of four grown children .

He is a black belt in several martial arts, is a former marathon runner and avid guitar player and underwater

photographer.