Doctor Sandy Skotnicki-Grant
Medical Director
Dr. Skotnicki-Grant received her undergraduate degree in microbiology and immunology from the University of Toronto. She completed medical school at the same institution, graduating Alpha Omega Alpha. She went on to complete her dermatology training at the University of Ottawa, and was awarded her fellowship in Dermatology by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in June 1997. She is a Diplomat of the American Board of Dermatology and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, Department of Medicine in the Divisions of Dermatology and Occupational Health. Her memberships include the Canadian Medical Association, Canadian Dermatology Association, American Dermatology Association and American Contact Dermatitis Society. She is a Board member of the Canadian Dermatology Association.
Dr. Skotnicki-Grant has been practising in the Toronto area since 1997. She is currently on staff at both Women’s College Hospital and St. Michael’s Hospital as a Consultant Dermatologist. At St. Michael’s she is a member of the Occupational Disease Specialty Program, and is responsible for seeing complex Allergic and Occupational skin diseases. A leading expert in Allergic Skin Disease, she is one of a handful of dermatologists in Canada with a sub-specialty interest in Allergic Contact Dermatitis and Patch or Allergy Skin Testing. She is an also a consultant for the Workplace Safety Insurance Board.
Active in research and education, Dr. Skotnicki-Grant has been teaching University of Toronto Dermatology, Allergy and Family Medicine residents at her St. Michael’s Hospital clinic since 1999. She is also a member of CREOD, the Centre for Research Expertise in Occupational Disease, and has published articles on different aspects of Allergic Skin Disease.
Quoted in Flare, Glow, Elle Canada, Toronto Life Fashion, Toronto Star, and The Globe and Mail Dr. Skotnicki-Grant is a contributing writer for Allergy Living Magazine, where she answers patients’ questions quarterly. Her radio and televisions appearances include Breakfast TV, ET Canada, CTV, City TV, Global News, Shop Toronto and CBC Radio. She has also been a consultant for Oil of Olay, Neutrogena and Lubriderm, is an active member of the Dove Advisory Board and has been the spokesperson for KAO, a company that represents Jergens, Bioré & Curél since 2006.
Dr. Skotnicki-Grant started the Bay Dermatology Centre in 2006 in an effort to provide a full-service dermatology centre that focuses on the patient, not procedures.