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Mitchell Fourman, MD, Orthopaedic Surgery, Bronx, NY

MitchellStephenFourmanMDM.Phil

Orthopaedic Surgery Bronx, NY

Musculoskeletal Oncology/Cancer, Orthopedic Spine Surgery

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Spine Surgery Director of Orthopaedic Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement Montefiore / Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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  • Office

    1250 Waters Place
    Tower 1, 11th Floor
    Bronx, NY 10461
    Phone+1 718-920-2060

Summary

  • Mitchell S. Fourman, MD M.Phil is an attending physician and Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Montefiore-Einstein. Dr. Fourman’s clinical focus is the spine, with particular interests in adult spinal deformity, adult degenerative spine pathology, metastatic cancer to the spine and primary spine tumors.

    Dr. Fourman earned his Bachelor of Science at Stony Brook University in 2008, where he was a Barry M. Goldwater Scholar and a SUNY Chancellor’s Award winner. Dr. Fourman attended the University of Cambridge to earn a Masters of Philosophy in Sociology in 2009 prior to completing his Doctor of Medicine with Distinction in Research and the Humanities in 2014 at Stony Brook University. Dr. Fourman pursued his postdoctoral training at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, completing an internship in general surgery in 2015 followed by a residency in orthopedic surgery in 2020. He then went on to complete a clinical fellowship in Orthopaedic Oncology at Harvard in 2021 followed by a clinical fellowship in Adult Spine and Scoliosis Surgery at Hospital for Special Surgery in 2022 under Drs. Todd Albert, Han Jo Kim and Sheeraz Qureshi.

    Dr. Fourman’s research focuses include the impact of socioeconomic disparities on surgical outcomes, the management of metastatic spine disease, the implementation of value-based orthopaedic care and the use of near-infrared fluorescence imaging to identify areas of spinal nerve compression. He also studies multiple aspects of adult spinal deformity in collaboration with the International Spine Study Group (ISSG). He has won several awards for his research, including the Philip D. Wilson Award for Excellence in Orthopaedic Surgery Research while a fellow at Hospital for Special Surgery.

Education & Training

  • Hospital for Special Surgery/Cornell Medical Center
    Hospital for Special Surgery/Cornell Medical CenterFellowship, Orthopaedic Surgery Of The Spine, 2021 - 2022
  • Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
    Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical SchoolFellowship, Musculoskeletal Oncology, 2020 - 2021
  • UPMC Medical Education
    UPMC Medical EducationResidency, Orthopaedic Surgery, 2014 - 2020
  • Stony Brook University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine
    Stony Brook University Health Sciences Center School of MedicineClass of 2014
  • University of Cambridge
    University of CambridgeM.Phil, Social Psychology, 2008 - 2009

Certifications & Licensure

  • NY State Medical License
    NY State Medical License 2021 - 2026
  • MA State Medical License
    MA State Medical License 2020 - 2022
  • PA State Medical License
    PA State Medical License 2014 - 2021
  • American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery Orthopaedic Surgery

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

  • Philip D. Wilson Award for Excellence in Orthopaedic Surgery Research Hospital for Special Surgery, 2022
  • Top Paper Award Musculoskeletal Tumor Society Annual Meeting, 2016
  • Invited Speaker - Stony Brook TEDx Program Stony Brook University, 2013
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Abstracts/Posters

  • Are the New Generation of Dorsal Plates still a Greater Risk than Volar Fixed Angle Plating? Results of a Meta-Analysis
    Fourman, MS; Bielicka, D; Zhang, C; Goitz, RJ; Fowler, JR, 2015 Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society, Las Vegas, Nevada, 3/2015
  • Quantitative Analysis of Nipple Areola Complex Tattoo Fade Patterns: Results of a Prospective Study
    Levites, HA; Lyubchik, A; Trasolini, NA; Fromm, IM; Fourman, MS; Phillips, BT; Khan, SU; Dagum, AB; Bui, DT, 31st Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Society of Plastic Surgeons, Providence, Rhode Island, 9/2014
  • Characterization of Acute Venous Congestion in a Rat Model using Indocyanine Green Angiography
    Nasser, AE; Fourman, MS; Gersch, RP; Hsi, H; Phillips, BT; Dagum, AB; Khan, SU; Gelfand, MA; Bui, DT, 59th Plastic Surgery Research Council, New York, New York, 3/2014
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Lectures

  • Seeing Medicine through Fluorescent Eyes 
    Stony Brook University TEDx Conference, Stony Brook, New York - 10/2013

Research History

  • Clinical Scientist Track - Univ of Pittsburgh Medical CenterIntegrated Research Year through Orthopaedic Surgery Residency2015 - 2016
  • Research Coordinator - Stony Brook Plastic Surgery2011 - 2012
  • Medical Student Summer Research Fellow - Hospital for Special Surgery2009 - 2009
  • Morin Foundation Research Fellow2007 - 2008
  • NSF-REU Fellow - Dept of Chemical Engineering, Princeton Univ2005 - 2005

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