Dr. Tolkachjov is a board-certified dermatologist and fellowship-trained and board certified Mohs micrographic & reconstructive surgeon with interests in skin cancers, Mohs surgery & complex facial reconstruction, and pyoderma gangrenosum. He’s the Founder and Director of the Micrographic Surgery and Cutaneous Oncology Fellowship and core dermatology faculty at Baylor University Medical Center. He’s a clinical assistant professor at UT Southwestern Department of Dermatology, clinical associate professor at Texas A&M College of Medicine, staff surgeon at the Dallas VA Medical Center, and is the Dallas area Director of Mohs Micrographic & Reconstructive Surgery for Epiphany Dermatology and has performed over 20,000 cases.

He graduated from Emory University followed by the University of Tennessee College of Medicine at the top of his class. He completed his residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, followed by a formal Mohs Micrographic Surgery and Dermatologic Oncology fellowship at the Surgical Dermatology Group in Birmingham, Alabama, where he also practiced for the first few years of his career prior to coming to Dallas.