Evan Flatow

Evan L. Flatow, born on 21 March 1956, is an American orthopaedic surgeon and scientist known for his work on shoulder surgery, tendon biology and shoulder replacement. He graduated from Princeton University in 1977 and earned his medical degree at Columbia University in 1981, then trained in surgery at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center and in orthopaedics at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. After joining the Columbia faculty in the late 1980s he moved to Mount Sinai Hospital in 1998, where he chaired the orthopaedic surgery department and from 2014 led Mount Sinai West as president. His research covered shoulder biomechanics, rotator cuff tendon disease and arthroplasty, and he is associated with the Bigliani-Flatow shoulder prosthesis. He has received several Neer Awards for shoulder research and retired from active surgical practice in 2024, continuing as an academic clinical leader at Mount Sinai.