Dr. Rachidi earned his MD and PhD degrees from the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston, SC, where he received the Distinguished Graduate of the Year award and was inducted to the Alpha Omega Alpha honor medical society. He then completed dermatology residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He is academically active and is the lead author of many pre-clinical and clinical studies in the fields of dermatology, cancer, and immunology.