Joseph Nutz, MD

Dr. Joe Nutz has practiced in the Morehead City area since 1995 providing comprehensive healthcare solutions for the citizens of Carteret County. He has become an integral part of the community. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Kentucky and his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1992. He completed his Family Practice Residency program in 1995 and served as Chief Resident at Hamot Medical Center in Erie, Pennsylvania. 

After many years of providing both inpatient and outpatient care for people of all ages at his family practice, Dr. Nutz currently has opened a personalized healthcare plan with the help of the MDVIP organization. He has served as the Vice President of Medical Affairs at Carteret Healthcare, Vice Chief of Staff, Chairman of the Medical Review Committee, Chief of Quality and Safety, past physician leader of local accountable care organizations (ACO) and currently serves as the JCMC Medical Director. An active member and past President of the Rotary Club of Morehead City Noon, Dr. Nutz also previously chaired the Board of Directors at RBC Bank, formerly Centura Bank. 

Dr. Nutz also serves on the Board of Trustees for Hope Mission Foundation. He has past affiliation with the American Board of Family Practice, North Carolina Academy of Family Physicians, and other local medical societies. He has been a long-time member of the First Presbyterian Church of Morehead City. Dr. Nutz enjoys performance cars, fishing, family events and following the latest technological advances in healthcare and fitness. His wife is a retired Veterinarian. Dr. Nutz has been featured in a book that is dedicated to small town family physicians. 

His entire story can be reviewed in a book called “Caring for the Country” by Howard K. Rabinowitz. “I enjoyed my OB rotations, I enjoyed my internal medicine rotations in the hospital, I really enjoyed my family practice rotations. I couldn’t see myself just being a surgeon, and as for internal medicine, they didn’t see kids, and I felt like that’s not medicine, if you can’t take care of children. So, family practice just seemed to have all the components. And of course, the family practice department was very supportive.” Excerpt from Caring for The Country: Family Doctors in Small Rural Towns.

Dr. Nutz sees patients at JCMC Morehead.