Harvard-Trained Orthopedic Hand Surgeon

Dr. Ogheneochuko Metitiri is a Harvard-trained Orthopedic Hand Surgeon working in private practice just north of New York City. He has won numerous awards for his patient care, including Dutchess County’s 2020 “40 under 40 Mover and Shaker” and is a multi-year Castle Connolly “Top Doctor”, a peer-nominated award given to only 7% of practicing physicians. In addition to his orthopedic training at Harvard University, Dr. Metitiri completed a Hand and Upper Extremity Fellowship at Baylor University in Houston, Texas. His medical education was completed at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. Prior to medical school, he spent a year as a National Institute of Health Intramural Research Training Award winner conducting basic neuroscience research on schizophrenia at the National Institute of Mental Health. This work led to published data at the national Neuroscience meeting that year. In college, Dr. Metitiri followed his childhood passion both for understanding how things work, as well as creative problem solving. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, with coursework that included working with NASA on a prototype for a lunar module astronaut restraint system. Dr. Metitiri is from an immigrant family originally from Nigeria. He grew up in the Midwest, attending public preschool, elementary and middle school.