Meet the Orthodontist

Dr. Joseph A. Stofko

Dr. Stofko resides in Mars with his wife, Jodi, and 5 kids.

Dr. Stofko attended the University of Pittsburgh for 3 years before receiving early admission to dental school. Dr. Stofko graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine in 1994. There, he was class President, Student Dental Association President, and won first place in a national research competition. After a General Practice Residency in 1995 at Allegheny General Hospital and one year of private practice in 1996, he graduated from the 3 year orthodontic residency program at Montefiore Medical Center of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. In 1998, Dr. Stofko published an article on open bite malocclusion and was awarded a coveted biomedical research award from the American Association of Orthodontists Foundation for his work on a gene that was thought to cause a small jaw to run in families. His research on patients with small jaws was published in the March 2003 edition of The European Journal of Human Genetics. He has been practicing orthodontics since 1999. Dr. Stofko started the office in Gibsonia from scratch in 2001.