Dr. Dvorkin credentials & background

With more than four decades of dedicated medical experience, Dr. Dvorkin brings extensive orthopedic surgery expertise and leadership to his patients and readers.

Education and surgical training

• 1976: University of Chicago, Undergraduate Degree
• 1980: Washington University School of Medicine, M.D. Degree
• 1981: University of Rochester, Surgical Internship
• 1981–1985: George Washington University, Orthopedic Residency

Clinical career and hospital leadership

• 1985–2018: Private Practice Orthopedic and Hand Surgery Associates
• 1985–2018: Clinical Instructor, Department of Family Practice and Department of Internal Medicine, Franklin Square Hospital Center
• 1992–2008: Physician Director, Board of Trustees, Franklin Square Hospital Center
• 1994–1996: Vice President of Medical Staff, Franklin Square Hospital Center
• 1994–2017: Chief of Orthopaedics, MedStar Franklin Square Hospital Center
• 1996–1998: President of Medical Staff, Franklin Square Hospital Center
• 1996–2001: Board of Directors, Franklin Square Hospital Center
• 2018–2021: Chief of Orthopedics, Titusville, PA
• 2021–present: Orthopedic Specialist, Excelsia Injury Care, Baltimore, MD

Honors and recognition

• 2011–2017: Named Baltimore Top Doctor in Orthopedics

• BOARD CERTIFICATION

  1987 AMERICAN BOARD OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS (ABOS)

  1998 RECERTIFICATION ABOS

  2008 RECERTIFICATION ABOS

  2018 RECERTIFICATION ABOS

  EDUCATIONAL AWARDS

  1985 :Pfizer Award of excellence 1st Prize Washington Orthopaedic Society. “ Role of CAT scan in selecting acute herniated disc patients that do not improve with conservative measures”

  1989,1990,1992,1997 :Teaching Award American Academy of Family Practice

  1991: William Reichel MD Award for outstanding teaching Franklin Square Family practice residency program

  2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 Baltimore Top Doctor in category General Orthopaedics

  BOOK PUBLICATIONS

  MAY 1993 OFFICE ORTHOPAEDICS AUTHOR MICHAEL DVORKIN, MD APPLETON & LANGE PULISHERS

  JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

  1990 “ THE USE OF A CHARNLEY RETRACTOR FOR INTERTROCHANTERIC HIP FRACTURES” ORTHOPAEDIC REVIEW VOLUME XIX, NUMBER 12 1990

  1992 “ ROTATOR CUFF TEARS, SIMPLIFIED MRI DIAGNOSIS WITH SURGICAL CORELATION” DVORKIN/ REEDER/ PUSKIN JOURNAL OF MRI APRIL 1992

  1993 “ THE ABILITY OF MRI TO QUANTITATIVELY ASSESS HE SIZE OF ROTATOR CUFF TEARS MICHAEL DVORKIN, MD/JOHN REEDER MD/GARY PUSHKIN MD JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT TRANSACTIONS 3RD QUARTER 1993

  1988- 1998. ORTHOPAEDIC COLUMN, DUNDALK EAGLE

  2007. “ MAKING STRIDES WITH THE ROTATING PLATFORM KNEE” DVORKIN MD/ DELISA NEVILLE RN/KAREN POOLE RN OR NURSE JOURNAL

  NATIONAL PRESENTATIONS

  1991 Key Note Speaker Annual Maryland Orthopaedic Society “The 1990’s Whats New in Shoulder

  Surgery” Baltimore Maryland

  1992 “ Simplified MRI Diagnosis of Rotator Cuff Tears With Surgical Correlation” Presented at Society

  For MRI Imaging New York, New York

  1993 “ The Ability of MRI to Assess Quantitatively the Size of Rotator Cuff Tears “ Poster exhibit

  AAOS meeting San Francisco, Ca.

  1993 “MRI assessment of rotator cuff tear size” Eastern Orthopaedic Association Buena Vista , Florida

  1995 “ The Use of MRI to Assess Rotator Cuff Tears” Midwest Winter Trauma Meeting Vail Colorado

  SOCIETIES AND ASSOCIATIONS

  Maryland Orthopaedic Society

  Baltimore County Medical Society

  Eastern Orthopaedic Association 1990-1995

  American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery

  American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery

  Arthroscopy Association of North America. 1995-2005