Divya

Seth

MD

MPH

Appointments

Dermatologic Surgery Center at UW Medical Center – Roosevelt

206.598.7895
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4225 Roosevelt Way NE, Floor 4
Seattle, WA 98105

UW Medical Center – Roosevelt Dermatology Center

206.598.4067
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4225 Roosevelt Way NE, Floor 4
Seattle, WA 98105

Fred Hutch Cancer Center

855.557.0555
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South Lake Union Clinic
825 Eastlake Ave E
Seattle, WA 98109

Biography 

Divya Seth, MD, MPH (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Practice at the University of Washington Department of Dermatology, and a board-certified dermatologic surgeon specializing in Mohs micrographic surgery.  

Dr. Seth’s clinical work is based at the Roosevelt Dermatology Clinic, the Roosevelt Dermatologic Surgery Center, and Fred Hutch Cancer Center, where she sees general medical dermatology patients as well as performs dermatologic surgical procedures. 

Dr. Seth also serves as our the Department of Dermatology's Director of Procedural Education. In this role, she leads the teaching and development of curriculum focused on dermatologic procedures—including skin biopsies, excisions, cryotherapy, and other medical and surgical techniques essential to dermatologic care.

Education & Training

Fellow, Mohs Micrographic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco (2023-2024) 

Resident, Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco (2020-2023) 

Intern, Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (2019-2020)

Research Fellow, Dermatology (NIH T32), Case Western Reserve University (2017-2018) 

Master of Public Health, Quantitative Methods, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (2017-2018) 

MD, Honors in Research, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (2024-2019)

BA, Neurobiology, Harvard College (2010-2014)

HONORS 

Tromovitch Award Finalist, American College of Mohs Surgeons (ACMS) (2024)

UCSF GME Excellence and Innovation Award: “Recognizes those who have put forth exemplary efforts to improve graduate medical education at UCSF” (2023)

AAD Award for Resident Quality Improvement (2021)

Honorable Mention, AAD 2019 Meeting Poster Exhibit Award (2019)

The Dermatology Faculty Prize, Case Western: “To the graduating student whose performance in dermatology has been outstanding” (2019) 

Research Interests

• Procedural dermatology 
• Dermatologic surgery

Publications 

Selected Publications

Fadadu RP, Green M, Grimes B, Jewell NP, Seth D, Vargo J, Wei ML. Association of Wildfire Air Pollution With Clinic Visits for Psoriasis. JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Jan 3;6(1):PMCID: PMC9857436.

++Castillo FT, Seth D, Agnihothri R, Fox LP, North JP, Haemel AK. Nonuremic calciphylaxis manifesting with diffuse dermal angiomatosis. JAAD Case Rep. 2022 Apr 4. PMID: 35518276;
PMCID: PMC9062726.

Golden JB, Richardson B, Seth D, Goldberg S, McCormick TS, Cooper KD, Cameron MJ. “Monocytes as endogenous immune sensors: Identification of inflammatory, adhesion, and mTOR-related signatures in psoriasis.” Journal of Dermatological Science. 2021 Jan 5. PMID: 33468356

Freeman EE, Busakhala N, Regan S, Asirwa F, Wenger M, Seth D, Moon KC, Semeere A, Maurer T, Wools-Kaloustain K, Bassett I, Martin J. “Real-world use of chemotherapy for Kaposi’s sarcoma in a large community-based HIV primary care system in Kenya.” BMC Cancer. 2020 Jan 29. PMID: 31996161

Freeman EE, Semeere A, Laker-Oketta M, Namaganda P, Osman H, Lukande R, McMahon D, Seth D, Oyesiku L, Tearney GJ, Gonzalez S, Rajadhyaksha M, Anderson RR, Martin J, Kang D. “Feasibility and implementation of portable confocal microscopy for point-of-care diagnosis of cutaneous lesions in a low-resource setting.” Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. 2020 May 3. PMID:
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