Cardiologist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Chiropractor providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Dentist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Dermatologist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Family Physician providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
OB-GYN providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Ophthalmologist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Orthopedic Surgeon providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Pediatrician providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Physical Therapist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Podiatrist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Psychiatrist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Michael Spicer, M.D., F.A.A.D., is a leading dermatologist, dedicated to providing skilled, compassionate care for patients throughout the Brevard County area. At Brevard Medical Dermatology in all locations, Dr. Spicer offers comprehensive treatment for all types of dermatologic issues, including acne, melanoma, warts, dermatitis, skin cancer, moles, rashes, eczema, psoriasis, basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma.
Dual board-certified in dermatology and dermatopathology, Dr. Spicer earned his bachelor’s degree at Rutgers University and his medical degree at the University of Medicine and Dentistry NJ (UMDNJ) - New Jersey Medical School. He completed his internship in pediatrics at the University of Maryland, before returning to UMDNJ where he completed a residency in dermatology and a fellowship in dermatopathology. A fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology, Dr. Spicer has been caring for patients in the Brevard County, FL, area for more than 20 years.
Johanna Espenschied, MHS, PA-C, is an experienced physician assistant who has specialized in dermatology for over 12 years. She is a Florida native and grew up in Brevard County, where she happily cares for her hometown community.
Johanna attended the University of Central Florida where she earned her Bachelor’s of Science in Biology, with a minor in environmental studies. She attended the University of South Alabama, in Mobile, Alabama for her Master’s degree in Health Sciences. Johanna is board-certified by the National Commission for Certification of Physician Assistants, and licensed by the State of Florida Board of Medicine.
Johanna practices medicine with empathy and compassion. She enjoys getting to know her patients and creating a trusting relationship between patient and provider. Johanna strives to educate her patients, so they have the knowledge to be their own health advocate. Her passion for education also led her to work for over a year as graduate faculty in the Physician Assistant program at AdventHealth University, where she taught and inspired future healthcare providers. Johanna still serves as an adjunct professor.
To book an appointment with Johanna, call the Titusville or Post St John offices or request a consultation online.
Johanna Espenschied, MHS, PA-C, is an experienced physician assistant who has specialized in dermatology for over 12 years. She is a Florida native and grew up in Brevard County, where she happily cares for her hometown community.
Johanna attended the University of Central Florida where she earned her Bachelor’s of Science in Biology, with a minor in environmental studies. She attended the University of South Alabama, in Mobile, Alabama for her Master’s degree in Health Sciences. Johanna is board-certified by the National Commission for Certification of Physician Assistants, and licensed by the State of Florida Board of Medicine.
Johanna practices medicine with empathy and compassion. She enjoys getting to know her patients and creating a trusting relationship between patient and provider. Johanna strives to educate her patients, so they have the knowledge to be their own health advocate. Her passion for education also led her to work for over a year as graduate faculty in the Physician Assistant program at AdventHealth University, where she taught and inspired future healthcare providers. Johanna still serves as an adjunct professor.
To book an appointment with Johanna, call the Titusville or Post St John offices or request a consultation online.
Dr. Shalini Batra completed her dermatology residency training at Florida State University after completing medical school and an internal medicine internship at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. She completed a one-year pre-doctoral dermatology internship during medical school at Northwestern University in Chicago focused on women’s vulvar dermatological disease. Her undergraduate study was at Columbia University in the City of New York.
Dr. Shalini Batra has published several dermatological papers in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology (JAAD) and Journal of the American Medical Association in Dermatology (JAMA Dermatology) while also presenting at numerous influential academic conferences. In addition, she has authored a dermatology textbook chapter on keloids.
Dr. Shalini Batra holds a 3-year board position on the Young Physicians, Residents, and Fellows committee of the Women’s Dermatologic Society. She also is a member of the social media committee for the American Society of Dermatologic Surgery.
Her clinical interests include general dermatology, skin cancer, dermatologic surgery and reconstruction, cosmetics, keloids, and vulvar dermatology.
Dr. Shalini Batra is originally from Melbourne, Florida. In her free time, she enjoys going to the beach, meditation, yoga, and travel. She hopes to learn how to scuba dive in the future.
Dr. Batra currently works at NIIVA by Indigo Dermatology in South Tampa and Melbourne.
Dr. Shalini Thareja Batra Publications/Affiliations
Minocycline Foam for the Treatment of Confluent and Reticulated Papillomatosis – Presented at Orlando Dermatology Aesthetic and Surgical Conference Jan 2021
Thareja S, Humeda Y, Patrick G, Cognetta AB Jr. Deja UV All Over Again: Theoretical Risks of the Unregulated Direct-to-Consumer Infrared Technologies. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2020 Aug 6. – In press. Published online
Thareja, S, Angnardo L, Wolfe C, Cognetta AB. Near-infrared Radiation (IR-A). The Florida Skin Cancer Review. 2020 Feb. Volume 2, Issue 1: 3. – An educational local newsletter from FSU Dermatology for panhandle physicians.
Thareja S, Fink M, Chen KH, Liu Y, Chen SC, Stoff BK. Race as a predictor of patient preferences for biopsy result communication. Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. 2018 June; Volume 78, Issue 6, 1223 1225.e1
Bonchak JG, Thareja S, Chen SC, Quave CL. Botanical Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Pruritus: a Systematic Review. Curr Derm Rep (2017) 6: 248.
Thareja S, Kollman K, Ardalan K, Klein-Gitelman M, Paller AS, Arkin LM. Oral Macrolides for the Dermatologic Manifestations of Blau Syndrome. JAMA Dermatol. 2017 Oct 1;153(10):1066-1067
Thareja S and Kundu R. Dermatoanthropology of Ethnic Skin and Hair. Springer International Publishing AG; June 2017. Chapter 15, Keloid and Hypertrophic Scarring; p 233-355. – Wrote chapter on keloids and hypertrophic scars in textbook
Thareja S, Florek A, Cices A, West D, Nardone B, Schlosser B. Quality of Life for Lichen Planus, – Lichen Sclerosus, and Vulvodynia: Vulvar-Specific Skindex-29 and Beyond. J Invest Dermatol.136(8); B4
Thareja S, Florek AG, Nardone B, Champlain A, Fontana J, Schlosser B. Impact of Lichen Sclerosus, Lichen Planus, and Vulvodynia on Quality of Life for Patients Using the Vulvar-Specific Skindex-29 Patient Reported Outcome Measure. J Am Acad Dermatol 2016;74 (5); (Suppl.1): AB57
Thareja S, Rashid A, Grossniklaus H. Spontaneous Necrosis of Choroidal Melanoma. Ocul Oncol Pathol 2015 Sept; 1:63-69.
Thareja S, Zager J, Sadhwani D, Thareja S, Chen R, Marzban S, Jukic DM, Glass LF, Messina J. Analysis of Tumor Mitotic Rate in Thin Metastatic Melanomas Compared with Thin Melanomas Without Metastasis Using Both Hematosylin and Eosin and Anti-phosphohistone 3 IHC stain. Am J of Dermatopathology. 01/2014; 36(1):64-
Timothy E. Knight, MD is a dermatologist at North County Dermatology Clinic. Serving patients in Lakeland, Florida, he enjoys the problem-solution process in dermatology. When it comes to his patients, he views each person as an individual, fascinating mystery just waiting to be solved.
Dr. Knight has practiced dermatology for more than 35 years and is board certified by the American Board of Dermatology. He earned his medical degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia and completed his internship in internal medicine at the Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu. He also completed his dermatology residency at the University of Maryland Medical System in Baltimore.
As a lifelong learner, Dr. Knight has published numerous research studies in peer-reviewed journals, and he has presented nationally. He previously served as an assistant professor at several medical schools.
In addition to a medical degree, Dr. Knight earned a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine in 1999. He has received many academic honors in the veterinary field, including the Clinic Volunteer of the Year Award from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty of Animals in 2003 and 2007. Dr. Knight is also a veteran of the United States Army, where he was a captain of the Medical Corps. Prior to the Army, Dr. Knight was an Airman First Class of the Missouri National Guard.
Dr. Knight generously participates in community service and has volunteered as a dermatologist with Talofa Medical Mission, where he provided charity medical services for two weeks yearly in Polynesia over a 10-year period. He has also been a weekly volunteer veterinarian for the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Lakeland.
He is pleased to offer services that keep pace with modern technology and medical breakthroughs, and he enjoys nothing more than bringing gratitude and joy to his patients.
