Dr. Dimick is a graduate of Cornell University and Johns Hopkins Medical School. He completed surgical residency at the University of Michigan and spent two years at Dartmouth, completing a fellowship in health services research. After completing his training, he joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in 2007.

Dr. Dimick's practice focuses on minimally invasive surgery. His interests include benign and neoplastic diseases of the foregut, hernias and complex abdominal wall reconstruction, and surgery for morbid obesity. He practices at the Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital and the University of Michigan Medical Center. Dr Dimick is active in teaching residents and medical students. Presently, he serves as the 3rd year student clerkship director for the VA hospital. He received the Department of Surgery medical student teaching award in 2010.

Dr. Dimick has an active research program at the Center for Healthcare Outcomes & Policy (CHOP) at the University of Michigan. With funding from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), his current research aims to develop better measures for assessing hospital quality with surgery. He has more than 100 peer reviewed publications, including papers in the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, and Health Affairs. In recognition of his research accomplishments, he was the 2010 recipient of the Jacobson Promising Investigator Award of the American College of Surgeons.

Dr. Dimick serves in an advisory role to many national organizations. He is a consultant to the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS-NSQIP) and to The Leapfrog Group, a large coalition of health care purchasers, for their Evidence-Based Hospital Referral Program. He also serves on the Executive Council of the Association of Academic Surgeons (AAS), the Executive Committee of the Surgical Outcomes Club, and the Editorial Board for Archives of Surgery.

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