Amy Forrestel - Faculty Biosketch

Amy Forrestel, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Clinical Dermatology

Department: Dermatology

Contact information

Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine
Department of Dermatology
3400 Civic Center Blvd
7th Floor, South Tower
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Education:
BS
University of Florida, 2007.
MD
Yale University School of Medicine, 2013.

Post-Graduate Training
Fellowship in HIV Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco, 2011-2012.
Internship Internal Medicine, Temple Hospital, 2013-2014.
Residency Internal Medicine and Dermatology, University of Pennsylvania, 2014-2018.

Certifications
American Board of Internal Medicine, 2018.
American Board of Dermatology, 2018.

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Selected Publications

Margaret Wat, Nicholas K Mollanazar, Christoph T Ellebrecht, Amy Forrestel, Rosalie Elenitsas, Emily Y Chu: Lichen-planus-pemphigoides-like reaction to PD-1 checkpoint blockade. J Cutan Pathol Nov 2022.

Hannah C, Williams V, Fuller LC, Forrestel A.: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Global Health Dermatology. Dermatol Clin 39(4): 619-625, October 2021 Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.det.2021.05.005. Epub 2021 May 31. PMID: 34556251.

Lonowski SL, Rodriguez O, Carlos CA, Forrestel AK, Kovarik CL, Wanat KA, Williams VL.: Looking back on 10 years of the American Academy of Dermatology's Resident International Grant experience in Botswana. J Am Acad Dermatol 85(3): 758-761, September 2021 Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.jaad.2019.12.035. Epub 2019 Dec 20 PMID: 31866267.

McMahon DE, Oyesiku L, Amerson E, Beltraminelli H, Chang AY, Forrestel A, Hay R, Knapp A, Kovarik C, Maurer T, Norton SA, Rehmus W, Van Hees C, Wanat KA, Williams VL, Fuller LC, Freeman EE.: Identifying gaps in global health dermatology: a survey of GLODERM members. Br J Dermatol 185(1): 212-214, July 2021 Notes: doi: 10.1111/bjd.19889. Epub 2021 May 17.

Mosojane KI, Giovanni D, Forrestel AK, Conic RZ, Kovarik C, Williams VL.: Patterns of Skin Disease in the Context of a High Prevalence HIV Population in Botswana. Dermatol Clin 39(1): 1-14, Janurary 2021 Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.det.2020.08.001. Epub 2020 Oct 31. PMID: 33228853.

Forrestel AK, Kovarik CL, Katz KA: Sexually Acquired Syphilis. Part 1: Historical aspects, microbiology, epidemiology and clinical manifestations. J Am Acad Dermatol 82(1)(1-14), January 2020.

Forrestel AK, Kovarik CL: Sexually Acquired Syphilis. Part 2: Laboratory diagnosis, management, and prevention. J Am Acad Dermatol 82(1)(17-28), January 2020.

Lonowski SL, Rodriguez O, Carlos CA, Forrestel AK, Kovarik CL, Wanat KA, Williams VL: Looking Back on 10 Years of the American Academy of Dermatology’s Resident International Grant Experience in Botswana. J Am Acad Dermatol S0190-9622(19): 33312-2, Dec 20 2019 Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.jaad.2019.12.035. Online ahead of print.

Forrestel AK, Micheletti RG.: Skin Manifestations of Systemic Disease. Fitzpatrick's Dermatology, 9th Ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. Kang S, Amagai M, Bruckner AL, Enk AH, Margolis DJ, McMichael AJ, Orringer JS Eds (eds.). 2019.

Forrestel AK: Cutaneous cryptococcus. In: Rosenbach M, Wanat K, Micheletti R, Talor LA Eds. Inpatient Dermatology. Rosenbach M., Wanat K., Micheletti R. (eds.). 2018.