Klaus Sellheyer M.D
Board Certified in Dermatology, Dermatopathology and Anatomic Pathology

Dr. Sellheyer is board certified in dermatology, dermatopathology and anatomic pathology. He studied medicine at the Universities of Bochum, Cologne and Göttingen, Germany. Thereafter, he completed a research fellowship in ophthalmic electronic microscopy at the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Bonn, Germany, followed by a research fellowship in immunohistochemistry and cell culture at the Department of Pathology, Free University of Berlin, Germany. He completed his German residency training in dermatology at Klinikum Elberfeld, Wuppertal, University of Düsseldorf Medical School, Germany.

In the United States, Dr. Sellheyer completed a fellowship in dermatopathology at the New York University Medical Center, followed by a research fellowship in molecular dermatology at the Department of Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine Houston, Texas. He then did an internship in pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, and continued to complete a residency in anatomic pathology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York.

Dr. Sellheyer also completed a second fellowship in dermatopathology at the Section of Dermatology, The University of Chicago Hospitals Chicago, Illinois, as well as a dermatology residency at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, where he was additionally serving as staff dermatopathologist.

Dr. Sellheyer served as Assistant Professor of Pathology at The Jefferson Center for Dermatopathology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and was Associate Professor of Dermatology and Pathology and Director of Dermatopathology as well as Fellowship Program Director of Dermatopathology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham before he joined Family Dermatology.

At Family Dermatology Dr. Sellheyer currently practices exclusively dermatopathology.

Dr. Klaus Sellheyer is a prolific author and co-author of numerous publications relating to diseases of the skin.

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