Dr. Sumeet Thareja, MD

As the founding director of Indigo Dermatology in Tampa, Melbourne, and Palm Bay, Florida, Sumeet Thareja, MD, provides a complete menu of medical and aesthetic skin care services to residents in the greater central Florida area. He’s passionate about increasing skin cancer awareness and dedicated to educating the community about general skin health.

Dr. Thareja is a dermatologist and skin cancer surgeon who specializes in advanced skin cancer treatments and hair loss. His interest in dermatology stems from skin disease and the psychological burden it creates. He strives to alleviate this burden by helping his patients look and feel their best.

After finishing his undergraduate studies at the University of Miami, Dr. Thareja obtained his medical degree and completed his residency at the University of South Florida. He went on to practice dermatology at the James A. Haley VA Department of Dermatology in Tampa, where helped to treat the veterans in the Tampa Bay area.

In addition to being board-certified by the American Board of Dermatology, Dr. Thareja is a member of the American Academy of Dermatology and the American Society of Mohs Surgery.

• Thareja SK, Paghdal K, Lien M, Fenske NA. Reticular Erythematous Mucinosis- a review. Int J Dermatol. 2012 Aug;51(8):903-9.
• Thareja S, Honigbaum A, Jukic D. Glomus-like bodies with a neurofibroma: a novel neoplasm arising in neurofibromatosis type 1 or a coincidence? J cutan path 2015.
• Thareja SK, Sadhwani D, Fenske NA. En Coup de Sabre: Treatment with hyaluronic acid filler injection. Int J Dermatol. 2013 Oct 29.
• Thareja SK, Zager J, Sadhwani D, Thareja S, Chen R, Jukic D, Glass F, Messina J. Analysis of Tumor Mitotic Rate in Thin Metastatic Melanomas with Anti-pHH3 IHC Stain Compared to Thin Melanomas without Metastasis. Am J Dermatopathol. 2014 Jan;36(1):64-7
• Rudnick E, Thareja S, Cherpelis B. Oral Therapy for nonmelanoma skin cancer in patients with advanced disease and large tumor burden; a review of the literature with focus on a new generation of targeted therapies. Int J Dermatol. 2016, 55. 249-258.
• Lien M, Baldwin B, Thareja SK, Fenske NA. Merkel Cell Carcinoma: clinical characteristics, markers, staging and treatment. Journal of Drugs and Dermatology 2010;9(7): 779-84.
• Black W, Thareja SK, Blake B, Chen R, Cherpelis B, Glass F. Distinction of Melanoma in situ and Solar Lentigines on Sun-Damaged Skin using Morphometrics and MITF Immunohistochemistry. Am J Dermatopathol. 2011 Aug; 33(6):573-8
• Johnston RJ. Thareja S. Shenefelt P. Disseminated Histoplasmosis in a Renal Transplant Patient. Cutis. 2013 Jun;91(6):295-9