Dr. Hapke attended medical school at the University of Illinois and completed residency at NYU in Clinical and Anatomic Pathology with emphasis in dermatopathology. He subsequently completed a fellowship in surgical pathology in Minnessota.

Dr. Hapke has many years' experience in private practice as a pathologist, has served as an Associate Professor at both the University of Nebraska College of Medicine and Creighton University School of Medicine, and was previously the Medical Director of the Clinical Laboratory at an Omaha hospital.

Dr. Hapke is responsible for examining and interpreting all of the skin biopsies obtained in Dermatology Specialists' general dermatology clinics after they have been prepared in our state-of-the-art histology lab.

Dr. Hapke enjoys traveling in his spare time.