The 68-year-old is the latest figure from Fifa's 'old guard' to step down from the organization.
Fifa said it would develop the work Dvorak had accomplished in its future drive for improvements, especially in his developments in the campaign to stamp out doping.
Dvorak is also a senior consultant in neurology at a Zurich clinic.
A series of directors at Fifa have left their posts since the election of Gianni Infantino at the head of world football's governing body in February.
Among them are Niclas Ericsson, the man in charge of TV rights sales, who has been at Fifa since 2003. The Swede will leave at the end of 2016.
Marketing chief Thierry Weil left in the the first week of October.
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Top doc becomes latest Fifa official to resign
Fifa's chief medical officer Jiri Dvorak on Wednesday stepped down from his post after 22 years in the job, football's world governing body announced.
Published: 3 November 2016 08:15 CET
Jiri Dvorak follows several other leading Fifa figures in stepping down. Photo: Nelson Almeida/AFP
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Trial over 2006 German World Cup corruption opens in Switzerland
Three former German football officials and ex-FIFA Secretary General Urs Linsi went on trial on Monday in Switzerland over suspicions that Germany bought votes to obtain the 2006 World Cup.
Published: 10 March 2020 03:24 CET
Photo: FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP
The three defendants have indicated that they will not be present at the hearing in Bellinzona for a variety of reasons, including fear of travelling because of coronavirus contagion.
Swiss Linsi, 70, former German Football Association (DFB) presidents Wolfgang Niersbach, 69, and Theo Zwanziger, 74, and 78-year-old former DFB General Secretary Horst R. Schmidt are being prosecuted for “fraud”.
They are accused by the Swiss Federal Prosecutor's Office (BA) of concealing from the DFB the true destination of a transfer of 6.7 million euros ($7.6 million today), paid in 2005 by the organising committee to former Adidas boss, the late Robert Louis-Dreyfus, via FIFA.
The case of former World Cup organising committee chairman Franz Beckenbauer is being heard separately because of the former Germany captain's poor health.
The investigation was prompted by a report in German publication Der Spiegel in 2015 that Germany had used a secret fund of 10 million Swiss francs (6.7 million euros at the time) to buy votes and obtain the rights to host the competition at the expense of South Africa.
Beckenbauer is suspected of having asked Louis-Dreyfus, to contribute to this fund shortly before the vote on the host in the summer of 2000.
Louis-Dreyfus was allegedly reimbursed by the German Football Association on the pretext of expenses related to a FIFA gala evening, which ever took place.
Zwanziger, Niersbach and Schmidt have also been charged with tax fraud in Germany and the case is expected to come to trial in the coming months. cpb/pb/td
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