Howard Murad grew up in
Queens, New York. After
earning his degree at the
Brooklyn College of
Pharmacy, he attended

the University of California at Irvine Medical School. He completed his rotating internship back in New York at Queens Hospital.

From there, Dr. Murad joined the service as a General Medical Officer for the United States Army. He was stationed first in Vietnam in 1967 where he received the Bronze Star, followed by Ft. Lewis, Washington a year later. From 1969 to 1972, he completed his dermatology residency at the Veteran’s Administration Hospital at UCLA.

Newly minted as a dermatologist, the young Dr. Murad opened his first practice in Westchester, California in 1972. Starting out with a 400 square foot office of two small rooms, a single nurse and one patient his first week, he worked hard to build his practice, person by person. By the time he moved his offices to his existing location in the Southern California community of El Segundo in 1995, Dr. Murad had built a patient base of over 40,000 people.