Evan Flatow, M.D., is President of Mount Sinai West (formerly Mount Sinai Roosevelt), part of the Mount Sinai Health System, and an internationally recognized American orthopaedic surgeon. Prior to Dr. Flatow's appointment as President of Mount Sinai West, he served as the Bernard J. Lasker Professor and Chair of the Leni and Peter W. May Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and as Director of the Orthopaedic Surgery Service at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.
Flatow is the author of several books, multiple book chapters and more than 300 publications. He was chosen by Castle Connolly as one of America's top doctors and has won the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons's Neer Award, its highest honor, four times.
Flatow graduated from Princeton University with a degree in biochemistry in 1977. He earned his medical degree from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1981 and completed a surgical residency at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center and an orthopaedic residency and fellowship at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.
After 11 years on the faculty at Columbia University, in 1998 Flatow joined the staff at Mount Sinai Hospital, where he is currently Professor and Chair of Orthopaedics. At Mount Sinai, in collaboration with Mount Sinai's Department of Anesthesiology, Flatow has pioneered the use of regional blocks to diminish the need for general anesthesia in shoulder surgery.
Flatow is a reviewer for Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Arthroscopy, the Journal of Orthopaedic Research, and the American Journal of Sports Medicine. He is both editor and reviewer for the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery.
Flatow is the President of the Board of Trustees of St. Hilda's & St. Hugh's, a independent, Episcopal elementary school in Morningside Heights, N.Y. Flatow graduated from St. Hilda's & St. Hugh's in 1973.
Honors and awards
Manfred Pyka Physics Prize, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, June, 1974Phi Beta Kappa, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, June, 1977Alumni Association Bronze Medal, College of Physicians and Surgeons Alumni Association, Columbia University, June, 1981The Frank E. Stinchfield Award for Excellence in Orthopaedic Surgery, New YorkOrthopaedic Hospital at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, New York, April, 1985New Jersey Medical Society Prize for Resident Research, April, 1986The Frank E. Stinchfield Award for Excellence in Orthopaedic Surgery, New YorkOrthopaedic Hospital at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, New York, April, 1986Career Development Award, Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation, April, 1989The Neer Award for Excellence in Shoulder Research, American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons, February, 1992Award Winner, Videotape Program, Subcommittee on Audiovisual Education, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, February, 1993Irving Scholar Award, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, March, 1993European Traveling Fellowship, American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons, May, 1993The Neer Award for Excellence in Shoulder Research, American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons, February, 1994Clinician Investigator Award, National Institutes of Health/NIAMSD, April, 1994American, British, Canadian Exchange Traveling Fellowship, American Orthopaedic Association, May, 1995Best Poster (One of Three), Sixth International Congress on Surgery of the Shoulder, Helsinki, Finland and Stockholm, Sweden, June–July, 1995Best of 1995 Award, Fifth Place, Video Journal of Orthopaedics, 1995The Neer Award for Excellence in Shoulder Research, American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons, February, 1996Senior Author and Faculty Advisor, Wang V, First Prize, Student Paper Competition (Masters Level), American Society of Mechanical Engineers, November, 1996The Neer Award for Excellence in Shoulder Research, American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons, March, 2004.Shoulder Arthroplasty. Louis U. Bigliani, Evan L. Flatow (editors). Springer, 2005. ISBN 0-387-22336-3The Rotator Cuff. Part I. The Orthopedic Clinics of North America. Evan L. Flatow (author). Saunders, 1997. ASIN B0019FV1QWThe Rotator Cuff. Part II. The Orthopedic Clinics of North America. Evan L. Flatow (author). Saunders, 1997. ASIN B0018OPBX8Humerus (Musculoskeletal Trauma Series). Evan L. Flatow, Christoph Ulrich (authors); Evan L. Flatow (editor). Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997. ISBN 0-7506-0840-4The Unstable Shoulder. Louis U. Bigliani, Robert A. Arciero, Evan L. Flatow, Roger G. Pollock, James E. Tibone, Jon J. P. Warner (editors). Amer Acad of Orthopaedic Surgeons, 1996. ISBN 0-89203-120-4Complex and Revision Problems in Shoulder Surgery. Jon JP Warner, Joseph P Iannotti, Evan L Flatow (editors). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005. ISBN 0-7817-4658-2Partial list:
Wang, VM; Banack, TM; Tsai, CW; Flatow, EL; Jepsen, KJ (2006). "Variability in tendon and knee joint biomechanics among inbred mouse strains". Journal of Orthopaedic Research. 24 (6): 1200–7. PMID 16705702. doi:10.1002/jor.20167. Huang, CY; Wang, VM; Pawluk, RJ; Bucchieri, JS; Levine, WN; Bigliani, LU; Mow, VC; Flatow, EL (2005). "Inhomogeneous mechanical behavior of the human supraspinatus tendon under uniaxial loading". Journal of Orthopaedic Research. 23 (4): 924–30. PMID 16023009. doi:10.1016/j.orthres.2004.02.016. Janofsky, JS; McCarthy, RJ; Folstein, MF (1992). "The Hopkins Competency Assessment Test: a brief method for evaluating patients' capacity to give informed consent". Hospital & Community Psychiatry. 43 (2): 132–6. PMID 1572608. Kelkar, R; Wang, VM; Flatow, EL; Newton, PM; Ateshian, GA; Bigliani, LU; Pawluk, RJ; Mow, VC (2001). "Glenohumeral mechanics: a study of articular geometry, contact, and kinematics". Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery/American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons... [et al.] 10 (1): 73–84. PMID 11182740. doi:10.1067/mse.2001.111959. Roh, MS; Wang, VM; April, EW; Pollock, RG; Bigliani, LU; Flatow, EL (2000). "Anterior and posterior musculotendinous anatomy of the supraspinatus". Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery/American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons ... [et al.] 9 (5): 436–40. PMID 11075329. doi:10.1067/mse.2000.108387. Park, JY; Levine, WN; Marra, G; Pollock, RG; Flatow, EL; Bigliani, LU (2000). "Portal-extension approach for the repair of small and medium rotator cuff tears.". American Journal of Sports Medicine. 28 (3): 312–6. PMID 10843120. Levine, WN; Arroyo, JS; Pollock, RG; Flatow, EL; Bigliani, LU (2000). "Open revision stabilization surgery for recurrent anterior glenohumeral instability". American Journal of Sports Medicine. 28 (2): 156–60. PMID 10750990. Vitale, MG; Krant, JJ; Gelijns, AC; Heitjan, DF; Arons, RR; Bigliani, LU; Flatow, EL (1999). "Geographic variations in the rates of operative procedures involving the shoulder, including total shoulder replacement, humeral head replacement, and rotator cuff repair". Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. American volume. 81 (6): 763–72. PMID 10391541. Victor Olujimi, MDNami Kazemi, MDLeslie Barnes, MDPaul Cagle, MDThomas Obermeyer, MDAndrew Naviaser, MDDavid Lutton, MD
