In 1975, Dr. William Lentz graduated from his dermatology training at Indiana University School of Medicine and started Fort Wayne Dermatology at the Duemling clinic is south Fort Wayne. In 1976, fellow IU graduate Dr. Gary Dillon joined him in his dermatology practice. Drs. Lentz and Dillon incorporated their practice as Fort Wayne Dermatology, PC in 1980 and worked as a duo dermatology group until 1989. In that year, they were joined by Dr. James Kyler, who trained at the University of Arkansas, and Dr. Bradley Boyd, a graduate of the Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital to make room for the doubling of the practice, Fort Wayne Dermatology, PC built the current office located in the Village of Coventry in Southwest Fort Wayne. Only one year later, Dr. Diane Hentz, who trained at the Medical College of Wisconsin, brought the number of dermatologists to five.

As Dr. Dillon became active in state politics, Dr. Karen Neubauer, a graduate of an osteopathic dermatology program in Saint Louis, was recruited to fill the void left by Dr. Dillon's transition from full-time to part-time practice. In January of 2000, Drs. Edward Sarkisian and Thomas McGovern joined the group. Dr. Sarkisian trained at the University of Cincinnati and served as an Air Force dermatologist before joining FWD. Dr. McGovern trained at Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Aurora, Colorado and completed specialty training in Mohs Micrographic Surgery at Yale University in New Haven, CT after leaving eight years of military service. He is currently the only fellowship-trained Mohs surgeon in Northeast Indiana.

Dr. Jennifer Hobbs graduated from dermatology training at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit in 2001 and brought her interest and skills in laser procedures as she became the ninth dermatologist at Fort Wayne Dermatology. In December of 2003, Drs. Kyler, Hentz, Sarkisian, McGovern, and Hobbs purchased the practice from Dr. Lentz and Dillon and the group name transformed to Fort Wayne Dermatology Consultants, Inc.

Dr. Lentz remains on as a highly-valued employee physician who greatly enjoys his work. Dr. Dillon retired to devote more time to his children and grandchildren and to better serve his constituents as a state senator. Dr. Boyd left the group in the spring of 2004 due to physical disability. Dr. Neubauer returned to her home state of Missouri in the summer of 2004. Because the practice shrank from nine to six dermatologists in less than a year, active recruiting was initiated. Late in 2005, Pam Shoda, a nurse practitioner who trained in the Purdue system, and Nicole Helsom, a graduate of the physician assistant training program at the University of Saint Francis joined FWDC.