Arthur G. Siwinski

Arthur George Siwinski was born and raised in Fells Point in Baltimore, the son of Polish immigrants. He graduated from Loyola High School in 1923 and earned a bachelor’s degree from John Hopkins University in 1927.

In 1931, he graduated from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and completed his medical and surgical internships at Mercy Hospital and University Hospital. He was a fellow at the National Cancer Institute at the University of Michigan from 1938 to 1940.

During WWII, Dr. Siwinski was an Army medical officer in the southwest Pacific with the 42nd General Hospital from 1941 to 1945. He was the Chief of Surgery with the 136th Evacuation Hospital of the Maryland National Guard and was discharged with the rank of colonel.

Dr. Siwinski was an assistant associate professor at the University of Maryland Medical School and lectured in Dental Oncology at the University of Maryland Dental School. He had a private practice and was on the staff at Mercy Medical Center, Union Memorial Hospital, University of Maryland Medical Center, and Harbor Hospital Center. He retired from positions as a head and neck surgeon in the late 1960s.

From the early 1970s until 1980, he traveled around the United States as a member of the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Hospitals, an organization which evaluates and accredits hospitals.

Dr. Siwinski was the president of the Baltimore City Medical Society in 1966, President of the UM Medical Alumni Assiciation, and the President of the Medical & Chirurgical Faculty in 1968-69. He was also a member of the American College of Surgeons and the College of Radiology.

Arthur George Siwinski died in Westminster, Maryland on August 15, 1999.