Primary Care & Internal Medicine
Eugene Miknowski, MD, FACR
CloseKnit
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.
Profile last fact-checked August 11, 2026. Information reflects publicly available sources and may change. Confirm details directly with the practice before booking.
How Dr. Miknowski compares
Context from the 139 providers we track across Bethesda and Montgomery County.
The only provider we list offering rheumatology
1 of the 130 providers who list their focus areas name rheumatology.
Trained in Russia
1 of the 107 doctors whose medical school we record trained in Russia. 24 trained outside the United States altogether.
1 of 2 Russian-speaking doctors
2 of the 139 providers in our registry (1%) practise in Russian, across 2 specialties.
Longest since qualifying of our 28 primary care & internal medicine providers
Qualified in 1973. The median for the 28 primary care & internal medicine providers whose year we record is 1994.
1 of 8 we list at CloseKnit
We cover 8 providers at CloseKnit; the 4 below are a sample.
1 of 19 Spanish-speaking doctors
19 of the 139 providers in our registry (14%) practise in Spanish, across 6 specialties.
Medical school: Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University — Moscow, Moscow, Russia.
Figures describe the 139 providers currently in the MyBethesdaDoctor registry as of August 2026 — a curated directory, not a census of every doctor in Montgomery County. How we build this list.
Where Dr. Miknowski sits by experience
Dr. Miknowski finished medical school in 1973, 53 years ago. Of the 135 providers in our registry whose graduation year we could verify, 1 finished earlier and 133 finished later.
1965–69
1 provider finished 1965–1969Dr. Miknowski1973
1970–74
2 providers finished 1970–19741975–79
4 providers finished 1975–19791980–84
13 providers finished 1980–19841985–89
12 providers finished 1985–19891990–94
14 providers finished 1990–19941995–99
27 providers finished 1995–19992000–04
20 providers finished 2000–20042005–09
19 providers finished 2005–20092010–14
17 providers finished 2010–20142015–19
4 providers finished 2015–20192020–24
2 providers finished 2020–2024Among the 110 physicians we list, 1 finished medical school earlier — the median for that group is 1998.
All 12 bands
| Graduated | Providers |
|---|---|
| 1965–1969 | 1 |
| 1970–1974 — Dr. Miknowski | 2 |
| 1975–1979 | 4 |
| 1980–1984 | 13 |
| 1985–1989 | 12 |
| 1990–1994 | 14 |
| 1995–1999 | 27 |
| 2000–2004 | 20 |
| 2005–2009 | 19 |
| 2010–2014 | 17 |
| 2015–2019 | 4 |
| 2020–2024 | 2 |
Figures describe the 139 providers currently in the MyBethesdaDoctor registry as of August 2026 — a curated directory, not a census of every doctor in Montgomery County. Based on the 135 of 139 profiles with a graduation year we could verify against a primary source; the remaining 4 are left out rather than estimated. How we build this list.
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