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Michael J. Dorsi

Michael J. Dorsi MD

Neurosurgery
Ventura, California, United States of America

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Dr Dorsi is a Board-Certified, Fellowship trained Neurosurgeon that has been providing top-notch care to the Ventura County community since 2012. He was born and raised in Stirling, NJ. The fundamental value of helping others and service to the community was instilled in him at an early age by his mother who worked as a nurse and later director of religious education at the local church and father who served the community as a police officer. After completing high school, he attended The Johns Hopkins University and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with Highest Honors and a degree in Neuroscience.

He then earned a medical degree from The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr Dorsi then completed residency training in neurosurgery at The Johns Hopkins Hospital where he trained under some of the most prominent leaders in neurosurgery. In addition to general neurosurgery training. He developed a unique sub-speciality skillset in complex peripheral nerve surgery. During residency, he was awarded a prestigious fellowship from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine and dedicated two years to researching spinal cord injury and stem cell transplantation at UCLA.

He then returned to Johns Hopkins Hospital and served as Assistant Chief of Service of Neurosurgery. Following residency, Dr Dorsi was honoured as the recipient of the Cloward Fellowship for Spine and Peripheral Nerve Surgery from the American Academy of Neurological Surgery and completed a one-year minimally invasive and complex spine fellowship at UCLA. Dr Dorsi joined Ventura County Neurosurgical Associates in 2012. Dorsi serves as the Director of the Thousand Oaks Spine Institute. He was voted Ventura Spine Surgeon of the Year in 2018. He is the current President of the Sierra Spine Society.
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