Brian G Skotko, MD, MPP
Not currently accepting new patients
Specialties
Affiliation
Mass General Brigham
Provider Locations
- Boston, MA
A Board-certified medical geneticist, Dr. Skotko is the Emma Campbell Endowed Chair on Down Syndrome at Massachusetts General Hospital. As the Director of the hospital's Down Syndrome Program, he has dedicated his professional energies toward children with cognitive and development disabilities. He co-authored the national award-winning books, Common Threads: Celebrating Life with Down Syndrome and Fasten Your Seatbelt: A Crash Course on Down Syndrome for Brothers and Sisters. He is a graduate of Duke University, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard Kennedy School, and he is currently a Professor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Skotko is a leader on clinical and translational research about Down syndrome. He has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The L.A. Times, NPR's "On Point," and ABC's "Good Morning America." Dr. Skotko has a sister with Down syndrome and serves on the Honorary Board of Directors for the Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress.
Education & Training
- Fellowship: Boston Children's Hospital (for MD/DO), Genetics, 2012
- Internship: Boston Medical Center (BMC), Pediatrics, 2009
- Internship: Boston Children's Hospital (Trainees), Pediatrics, 2007
- Medical Education: Harvard Medical School, 2006
Board Certifications
- Clinical Genetics and Genomics, American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics
Languages Spoken
- English
Age Group Treated
- Pediatrics
- Adolescents
- Adults
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Accepted Insurance
- Tufts Medicare Preferred
- Wellpoint
- Cigna
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Medicaid ME
- Medicare
- Senior Whole Health
- Railroad Medicare
- United Health Care
- Aetna
- MassHealth
- Medicaid NY
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- Maine Community Health Options
- WellSense
- Medicaid RI
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- TriCare
- Medicaid NH
- Medicaid VT
- Fallon Health
- Multiplan
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Indemnity
- Humana
- Coventry
- Medicaid CT
- Tufts Health Plan
- WellSense NH
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare