Cutaneous Lasers

Accreditation | Modules | Thomas E. Rohrer, MD | Emmy Graber, MD

Rohrer_Tom_WEB Thomas E. Rohrer, MD 

Co-Course Director

Physician, Skin Care Physicians

Chestnut Hill, MA


Faculty member receives grant/research support from Candela Corporation, Pao Principle, and Radiancy. He is also a consultant for Julia Therapuetics, and on the Speakers Bureau of Candela Corporation and Radiancy. He does not discuss any off-label or investigational uses of a commercial product in this program.

Dr. Rohrer is one of the nations leading experts in both cosmetic and surgical dermatology. As a recognized innovator in the field, he lectures nationally and internationally; instructing other dermatologists and plastic surgeons on a wide variety of procedures and techniques. Dr. Rohrer was recently selected to give the keynote speech at the largest annual meeting of dermatologists in the world. Dr. Rohrer has published extensively in a wide variety of dermatologic and cosmetic surgery journals and is an editor of six textbooks on surgical and cosmetic dermatology. Dr. Rohrer has appeared multiple times on NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, and CNN news as an expert on lasers, cosmetic procedures, botulinum toxin injection, fillers, skin cancer, and other related subjects. He has also been quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe , Boston Herald, Boston Magazine, Redbook, Good Housekeeping, Allure, and Cosmopolitan.

Dr. Rohrer was elected to the board of directors of the prestigious American Academy of Dermatology, the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery, the American College of Mohs Surgery, and the Association of Academic Dermatologic Surgeons. He participates on numerous committees for several of the national dermatologic societies and plays an active role in shaping the future of the specialty. He is board certified by the American Board of Dermatology and a member of the Association of Academic Dermatologic Surgeons, American Society for Dermatologic Surgery, American College of Mohs Surgery, and the American Society for Lasers in Medicine and Surgery.

Dr. Rohrer is a magna cum laude graduate of Georgetown University and the Georgetown University School of Medicine. He was the recipient of the Michael J. Caruso Award, given to the medical graduate who best exemplified humanitarian care to their patients. Dr. Rohrer completed his internship in internal medicine at Yale University Hospital and a residency in dermatology at the combined Boston University-Tufts University program. He completed a Mohs and Dermatologic Surgery fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Rohrer has been selected as one of The Best Doctors in America and listed in the Who’s Who of American Medicine every year for the past ten years and has been voted Best of Boston each of the last 3 years.

Dr. Rohrer has played an active role in the training of young dermatologic surgeons here in Boston and around the globe. Dr. Rohrer directs one an approved fellowship in dermatologic surgery and lasers. Dr. Rohrer has served as the Chief of Dermatologic Surgery at Boston University Medical Center and the Boston Veterans Administration Hospital, and the Director of the Boston University Center for Cosmetic and Laser Surgery.