Maxim Polansky, MD completed his undergraduate training in neurobiology at the University of Texas at Austin and went on to complete his medical school at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

He completed his internship in internal medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital and dermatology training at Emory University School of Medicine. Currently, he is a Mohs surgery and cutaneous oncology fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering and Weill Cornell Medical Center.