Mission Statement
To enhance the health, well-being and quality of life of dancers and dance companies by providing state-of-the-art, affordable medical care.

Harkness Center for Dance Injuries aims to:

• provide excellent musculoskeletal healthcare to the dance community at affordable rates through a team of specialized medical professionals.

• offer free, one-on-one prevention clinics for individual dancers

• make available free or subsidized preventative and educational outreach programs for dancers, teachers, choreographers and administrators about the occupational, behavioral and mechanical factors associated with dance injuries.

• assist the dance community with identification and reduction of injury risks

• conduct ongoing research which advances the quality of dance science and improves the delivery of dance medicine.

• establish standards of excellence for dance medicine practitioners.

• interact with the dance community to minimize medical insurance costs.

• provide continuing education opportunities for the medical community in the specialized area of dance medicine.

• enhance the visibility of the dance medicine specialist within the dance and medical communities and in the general public.

• serve on the boards and committees of national and international dance medicine associations and journals.