Joseph P. Dutkowsky, MD
Associate Medical Director
Weinberg Family Cerebral Palsy Center
Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY

Joseph P. Dutkowsky, MD, is a leading specialist in the fields of physical and intellectual disabilities and Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon.  Dr. Dutkowsky earned his undergraduate degree from Rensselear Polytechnic Institute and his M.D. from the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in 1983. He completed residencies at both Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and The University of Tennessee‘s Campbell Foundation, followed by a fellowship at Harvard University’s Children’s Hospital. He has since dedicated his career to serving individuals with special needs, traveling to small hospitals and community clinics throughout the state of New York to care for rural children and adults with disabilities and in the last two years began teaching and seeing patients at Columbia University Medical Center.  He has given lectures internationally and assisted in the care of children with disabilities in the barrio of Lima, Peru.

An activist in his field, Dr. Dutkowsky is a committed member of 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 served as president in 2011. Additionally, he is an Attending Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Bassett Medical Centers of upstate New York and an Associate Clinical Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. A pioneer in the care of adults with child-onset physical and intellectual disabilities, Dr. Dutkowsky’s work was featured in an article in The New York Times and a television segment on PBS.  He is a Knight of Malta.