Joseph P. Dutkowsky MD

Dr. Joseph P. Dutkowsky, MD, has dedicated his career to serving individuals with special needs locally, regionally and internationally. Focusing his practice on Cerebral Palsy, Dr. Dutkowsky is one of the few practitioners in the country seeing patients from childhood to adulthood. He is a committed member of academic organizations including the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America, and the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine, for which he has been the elected President since October, 2011. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Cerebral Palsy Associations of New York State.

Dr. Dutkowsky is currently an Attending Orthopaedic Surgeon at Bassett Medical Center in upstate New York and an Associate Clinical Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians.

Dr. Dutkowsky earned his undergraduate degree in Biomedical Engineering from Rensselear Polytechnic Institute and his medical degree from the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He completed residency training at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and The University of Tennessee/Campbell Foundation, and his United Cerebral Palsy Fellowship at Harvard University and Children's Hospital in Boston.