I am very proud to announce that i have been asked by the Orioles organization to take over as the Head Team Doctor for the Bowie Baysox!

I am happy to be “working” from florida this week! Helping to keep the major and minor league teams in fighting shape.

Proud to say one of my papers will be published soon.   Factors affecting the perception of open, mini-open, and arthroscopic rotator cuff repair techniques among medical professionals. Dewan AK, Petre BM, Wilckens JH, Zikria BA. Am J Orthop (Belle Mead NJ). 2014;in press

Help us raise money for the AAMC cancer center by donating to the Orthopedic and Sports medicine center boat!  We hope to retain our title with the winning fish again this year. https://www.facebook.com/f4acosmc   https://www.fishforacure.org/standings/boat/?id=13

There is a lot of recent good news to report on the Petre Team: We can now officially welcome our trainer Alex Vitale! Dr Petre has a new publication out T2 values of articular cartilage in clinically relevant subregions of the asymptomatic knee Rachel K. Surowiec, Erin P. Lucas, Eric K. Fitzcharles, Benjamin M. Petre, Grant J. Dornan, J. Erik …

Dr Petre is happy to announce the addition of Gary Horsmon, PA-C ATC to his team.  Gary brings years of experience treating athletes as the head athletic trainer for Johns Hopkins, and 7+ years of experience as a sports medicine PA.  Gary will be seeing patients with Dr Petre in Odenton and Annapolis and will be working closely with Dr Petre on streamlining and perfecting …

From Vitals.com February 3, 2014 Dear Dr. Petre: Congratulations! You are being honored with a Vitals Compassionate Doctor Award. Treating patients – not just the disease – is what you excel at, and your patients appreciate the kindness you have dispensed along with your medical care. Every year, hundreds of thousands of patients provide feedback about their doctor online. Patients …

From a recent hip arthroscopy patient of Dr Petre:   “I am writing to you because I am celebrating one year since my first surgery.  Woohoo!!!!  I think of you often and can’t begin to tell you how thankful I am that I am living a healthy, pain free life again.  I feel like you given me the greatest gift …

Dr Petre has a new paper that has just been published in “Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy”.  The title of the paper is T2 values of articular cartilage in clinically relevant subregions of the asymptomatic knee The paper discusses the ability of MRI to map the cartilage in the normal knee. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24271329