After he earned his M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, he completed a Pediatrics residency at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and then a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Boston Children’s Hospital. He completed his postdoctoral training at the Harvard School of Public Health in the laboratory of Manoj Duraisingh. In his laboratory, Dr. Dvorin’s research focuses on the molecular pathogenesis of infection by the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. His laboratory utilizes novel genetic techniques to understand the function of essential genes in the parasite.