Josiah

Hanson

MD

APPOINTMENTS

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

Josiah Hanson, MD, (he/him/his) is a board-certified dermatologist at the UW Medical Center–Roosevelt Dermatology Center and the Fred Hutch Cancer Center. He is an Acting Assistant Professor in the UW Department of Dermatology and serves as the Medical Student Clerkship Director.  

Originally from Saint Paul, Minn., Dr. Hanson received his MD from the UW School of Medicine in 2017. His postgraduate training includes an internship in Internal Medicine at Virginia Mason Medical Center, and residency in dermatology in the UW Department of Dermatology, where he served as co-chief resident. During his residency, Dr. Hanson developed an interest in dermatopathology and has conducted research on PRAME expression in non-pigmented skin cancers. In 2023, Dr. Hanson completed a fellowship in dermatopathology at Geisinger Medical Center in Pennsylvania.  

Dr. Hanson’s clinical interests include dermatopathology, oncodermatology, and skin cancer. He is an active member of the American Academy of Dermatology, the American Society of Dermatopathology, and the Seattle Dermatology Society.  

Outside of medicine, he enjoys hiking the mountains of the Pacific Northwest and canoeing on the lakes of Northern Minnesota. He also enjoys collecting rare and unusual house plants with a menagerie of over 120 varieties that help keep the company of his cats, the rambunctious 'Chicksticks,' silly ‘Popover,’ regal ‘Earl Grey,’ and cuddly ‘Marionberry.’ 

Education & Training

Dermatopathology Fellowship, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, Danville, PA (2022) 

Chief Resident, UW School of Medicine, Division of Dermatology, Seattle, WA (2020-2021) 

Residency in Dermatology, UW School of Medicine, Seattle, WA (2018-2021) 

Internship, Department of Internal Medicine, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA (2017-2018) 

Doctor of Medicine with Honors in Medicine, UW School of Medicine, Seattle, WA (2013-2017) 

Bachelor of Arts, Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology, Summa Cum Laude, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA (2005-2009) 

Honors

Co-Chief Resident, UW School of Medicine, Division of Dermatology (2020-2021) 

American Society of Dermatopathology Mentorship Award, Geisinger Medical Center (2019) 

LifeSaver Award, LifeCenter Northwest (2019, 2020) 

George F. Odland Scholarship Award, UW School of Medicine, Division of Dermatology (2017) 

Research Interests

• Dermatopathology
• PRAME expression in non-pigmented skin cancers
• Patient’s understanding of pathology reports
• Soft tissue tumor in the skin 

Clinical Interests 

• Dermatopathology
• Oncodermatology
• Skin cancers 

PUBLICATIONS

Elsensohn A, Hanson J, Ferringer T. Preferentially expressed antigen in melanoma expression in nonmelanoma skin cancers and melanocytes in surrounding skin. J Cutan Pathol. 2021 Sep;48(9):1150-1155. doi: 10.1111/cup.14012. Epub 2021 Mar 28. PMID: 33719089.  

Hooton TA, Hanson JF, Olerud JE. Recalcitrant cutaneous pyoderma gangrenosum with pulmonary involvement resolved with treatment of underlying plasma cell dyscrasia. JAAD Case Rep. 2021 Jan 12;9:28-30. doi: 10.1016/j.jdcr.2020.12.028. PMID: 33604440; PMCID: PMC7873383.  

Morton RP, Abecassis IJ, Hanson JF, Barber JK, Chen M, Kelly CM, Nerva JD, Emerson SN, Ene CI, Levitt MR, Chowdhary MM, Ko AL, Chesnut RM. Timing of cranioplasty: a 10.75-year single-center analysis of 754 patients. J Neurosurg. 2018 Jun;128(6):1648-1652. doi: 10.3171/2016.11.JNS161917. Epub 2017 Aug 11. PMID: 28799868.  

Abecassis IJ, Morton RP, McGrath L, Hanson J, Xue AH, Kelly CM, Levitt MR, Sekhar LN, Kim LJ. Respiratory and Swallowing Outcomes Based on Aneurysm Location in 360 Patients with Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. World Neurosurg. 2017 Sep;105:108-114. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2017.05.110. Epub 2017 May 27. PMID: 28559079.