About Dr Carreira
educational qualifications
- BA from the University of Notre Dame in 1995
- Medical degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2000, with Alpha Omega Alpha honors
- Internship in General Surgery and residency in Orthopedic Surgery at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago
- Foot and Ankle Fellowship with Dr. Mark Myerson and Dr. Clifford Jeng at the Institute for Foot and Ankle Reconstruction, Baltimore.
- Foot and Ankle and Arthroscopic Fellowship with Dr. Pierce Scranton in Seattle.
- Sports Medicine Fellowship with the Steadman-Hawkins Clinic in Vail, Colorado, including hip arthroscopy training with Marc Philippon, M.D.
Dominic S. Carreira, M.D., a board-certified orthopedic surgeon with advanced training from three orthopedic fellowship programs, specializes in foot and ankle, hip arthroscopy, and sports medicine, and is a team physician for professional sports teams including the Miami Dolphins.
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Dr. Carreira serves as a clinical instructor for the NOVA sports medicine primary care fellowship program and for the Broward General Orthopedic Residency program. He is an educator both nationally and internationally in the areas of athletic hip injuries and foot and ankle injuries.
Following his general orthopedic residency training, Dr. Carreira completed a Foot and Ankle Fellowship with Dr. Mark Myerson and Clifford Jeng at the Institute for Foot and Ankle Reconstruction, Baltimore, Maryland. He also completed a Foot and Ankle and Arthroscopic Fellowship in Seattle, Washington, and a Sports Medicine and Hip Arthroscopy Fellowship with the Steadman-Hawkins Clinic in Vail, Colorado.
Dr. Carreira has served as an Assistant Team Physician to both the U.S. Men’s and Women’s Ski Teams, Colorado Rockies, Denver Broncos, Chicago White Sox and the Chicago Blaze.
He is a member of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, American Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Society, Orthopedic Research and Education Foundation, American Orthopedic Society of Sports Medicine, Arthroscopy Association of North America, and the NFL Team Physicians Society.
Active in research, Dr. Carreira has presented his work on minimally invasive arthroscopic techniques and outcomes both nationally and internationally and has been published in numerous medical publications including Foot and Ankle International and the American Journal of Sports Medicine.
Dr. Carreira maintains offices in Fort Lauderdale, less than a 40 minutes from Miami International Airport and downtown Miami, Florida. He regularly treats long-distance and international patients.
Dr. Carreira has shared a number of client testimonials on this site.
Dr. Carreira is fluent in Spanish.
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