Daniel Siegel is Professor of Clinical Dermatology at the State University of New York at Downstate and director of the Procedural Dermatology – Mohs Surgery fellowship program. He is a clinician, academician and computer expert who treats patents with skin cancer; teaches dermatologic surgery and computer utilization to his students, residents, fellows and colleagues; represents the specialty of Dermatology on the AMA Resource Based Relative Value Update Committee, where he chairs its standing Research Committee He is a member of the Boards of Directors of the American Academy of Dermatology (executive committee 2008-2010), the American College of Mohs Surgery and the Women's Dermatologic Society Women's Dermatologic Society and DebRA International where he is also Secretary of that organization.

A graduate of Stuyvesant High School, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (BS in Biology Magna Cum Laude) , Albany Medical College and the W. Averill Harriman School of Management (MS in Management and Policy), his medical training took place at the Albany Medical Center Hospital,(Internship), Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, Texas (Dermatology Residency and Chief Residency), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas (Fellowship, Mohs Micrographic Surgery and Dermatologic Surgery).

He is an editor of the exciting new textbook "Surgery of the Skin: Procedural Dermatology" which was debuted at the 2005 American Academy of Dermatology annual meeting and was "Highly Commended" by The Society of Authors and The Royal Society of Medicine Book Awards in 2005.He is an, Assistant Editor for Technology for the Dermatologic Surgery journal and consulting editor of Ostomy/Wound Management. He is an author of over 90 scientific papers, editor of three additional books and one United States patent. He has run both the AAD coding courses and computer courses and currently runs the AAD's EHR session and EHR "shootouts."