Gary Dorshimer, section chief of General Internal Medicine at Pennsylvania Hospital; assistant program director, Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship Program at the Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania; and clinical associate professor of medicine at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine, received the Otho Davis Scholarship Foundation’s Dick Vermeil Award in November. The Dick Vermeil Award honors a lifetime of achievement in the field of sports medicine.

Dr. Dorshimer has been the Philadelphia Eagles team internist and the general physician for the Philadelphia Flyers for nearly 20 years. A native of Allentown, Pennsylvania, he received his bachelor’s degree in natural science from Muhlenberg College in 1977 and his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1981.