Dr. Gutowski completed his secondary school training at Seton Hall Preparatory School in 1972. He then matriculated to Columbia University, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology. In 1976, he was awarded his Medical Degree from Cornell University Medical College in New York City. Upon completing a two year general surgical residency training program at Yale University, he completed an orthopaedic residency at the same institution. He served as Clinical Instructor and Orthopaedic Chief Resident at Yale University in 1984/1985.

While at Yale, he completed various research projects and co-authored numerous papers involving orthopaedic surgery and Sports Medicine. In 1985, he moved to Princeton, New Jersey and has practiced exclusively at the Medical Center at Princeton since.