Eugene Miknowski, MD, FACR

Dr. Eugene Miknowski is an internist and rheumatologist practicing with CloseKnit on Wisconsin Avenue in Chevy Chase. He graduated from the First Moscow Medical Institute in 1973 and worked as a staff physician in Moscow before emigrating to the United States in 1979. He completed an internal medicine residency at Georgetown University Hospital from 1981 to 1984, followed by a rheumatology fellowship there from 1984 to 1986, and has practiced in Washington ever since. He is a Fellow of the American College of Rheumatology and a Clinical Associate Professor at George Washington University Hospital.

Why patients choose Dr. Miknowski

Four decades in one metropolitan area produces a kind of clinical judgment that is difficult to shortcut, and rheumatology is a field where that matters — inflammatory arthritis, lupus, and other autoimmune conditions are diagnosed on pattern recognition as much as on laboratory values. For patients whose joint pain has been dismissed elsewhere as ordinary wear and tear, that background is the reason to book.

He is also one of a small number of Russian-speaking physicians practicing in the Bethesda–Chevy Chase corridor, and he consults in Spanish as well. Care in a patient’s first language is not a convenience; it measurably improves how well symptoms are described and how reliably treatment plans are followed.

Practice focus

Adult internal medicine and primary care, rheumatology including rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, gout, and other autoimmune and inflammatory conditions, osteoporosis, and chronic disease management. Available for virtual and in-person visits.