Michael J. Bronson

Michael J. Bronson is an American orthopaedic surgeon based in New York City, where he chairs the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Mount Sinai West and Mount Sinai Morningside and serves as Chief of Joint Replacement Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. His practice centres on total hip and total knee replacement, partial knee replacement and the revision of failed joint replacements. He is credited with advances in minimally invasive instruments for unicondylar partial knee replacement and with the Vision Total Hip System, a widely used hip replacement that avoids cement. Born in 1952, he took his medical degree at New York Medical College in 1976 and trained in general and orthopedic surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital and in pediatric orthopedics at Children's Hospital Boston, followed by a joint replacement fellowship at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. He was assistant team physician to several New York professional sports teams from 1977 to 1979 and joined the Lenox Hill staff in 1981, moving to Mount Sinai in 2005.