A practice built around skin cancer surgery
One office, one operating focus, and a laboratory down the hall from the exam rooms.
The Surgery Center at Plano Dermatology is a physician-owned and operated surgical dermatology practice. Dr. Modi, Dr. Wells, and Dr. Parry are each board certified in dermatology and fellowship trained in the surgical treatment of skin cancer — the people who own this practice are the ones holding the scalpel.
The work is Mohs micrographic surgery and everything that surrounds it: reconstruction once the margins are clear, treatment of melanoma and other high-risk skin cancers, and everyday dermatologic surgery — mole and cyst removal and nail procedures. Everything is done here, as an outpatient, under local anesthetic.
If you have just been diagnosed, the two things worth knowing about this office are below: the laboratory is on site, and the surgeons have spent much of their careers teaching this operation to other physicians.
The laboratory is on site
Mohs surgery only works if the tissue can be read during the operation. Our laboratory is in the office: your tissue is frozen, sectioned, and examined under the microscope by your surgeon while you wait in the next room — nothing is sent out.
The laboratory also runs immunoperoxidase stains, which make melanoma and high-risk squamous cell carcinoma visible at the margin. That allows cancers usually treated with wide excision to be removed with the same tissue-sparing, margin-controlled technique.
What that means for your surgery
- 100%
- of the surgical margin is examined under the microscope — not a sample of it.
- Up to 99%
- cure rate for previously untreated skin cancers.
- Same day
- results. The cancer is confirmed out, and the wound repaired, before you go home.
- Less removed
- because the cancer is traced to its roots, healthy tissue is preserved and scars stay smaller.
Surgeons who taught the surgery
Fellowship training is the highest credential in Mohs surgery: a year or more spent doing nothing but this operation under a senior surgeon. All three of our physicians hold it — and each has spent a substantial part of his career on the teaching side of that arrangement.
Full biographiesDr. Edward Parry
Professor of dermatology and director of Mohs surgery at LSU Medical Center for 17 years. He taught hundreds of dermatology residents and founded a Mohs fellowship program that graduated 15 Mohs surgeons before he entered private practice in Plano.
Dr. Michael Wells
Tenured associate professor at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center from 2001 to 2012, then fellowship trained at UT Southwestern. He continues to edit and peer review for the medical literature.
Dr. Gunjan Modi
Fellowship trained at UT Southwestern, where he was voted outstanding teaching fellow. He specializes in immunoperoxidase staining and skin cancer in organ transplant recipients.
Where and when to come
The office is at 6100 Windhaven Parkway, Plano, TX 75093, with parking at the door. Surgery days start early — a typical day begins with a 7:30 AM check-in.
Phone (972) 378-0620 · Fax (972) 378-0630
Office hours
- Monday
- 7:30am - 4:00pm
- Tuesday
- 7:30am - 4:00pm
- Wednesday
- 7:30am - 4:00pm
- Thursday
- 7:30am - 4:00pm
- Friday
- 10:00am - 2:00pm
- Saturday
- Closed
- Sunday
- Closed
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(972) 378-06206100 Windhaven Parkway, Plano, TX 75093 · Mon-Thurs: 7:30-4 | Fri: 10-2