Evan L. Flatow

Executive Vice President for Clinical Affairs, Mount Sinai Health System
Dean for Clinical Affairs, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Evan Flatow, MD, is Executive Vice President for Clinical Affairs for the Mount Sinai Health System and Dean for Clinical Affairs at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Dr. Flatow’s responsibilities are to represent and elevate the voice of physicians and physician leaders in Health System strategy and operations. Dr. Flatow’s perspective ensures the alignment of departmental clinical interests with those of the Health System as we systematize and optimize the way we provide care. He represents the Health System’s central leadership to physicians, and physicians to central leadership. The clinical chairs and institute directors report to him on clinical matters.

He served as President of Mount Sinai West from 2014, and Mount Sinai Morningside from 2023, until taking on his current roles in early 2025. Dr. Flatow has also held the positions of the Bernard J. Lasker Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and Chair of the Leni and Peter W. May Department of Orthopedic Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Director of the Orthopedic Surgery Service at The Mount Sinai Hospital. A nationally and internationally recognized leader in shoulder surgery, he made many clinical, educational, and research contributions to the care of shoulder disorders before retiring from active practice in 2024.

Dr. Flatow started practicing at Mount Sinai in 1998, and also trained numerous shoulder fellows and residents. He, along with others, helped to develop a comprehensive shoulder replacement system that is widely used by shoulder surgeons around the world. Dr. Flatow established a tendon basic science research group at Mount Sinai, serving as principal investigator on a National Institutes of Health R01 grant based on a new animal model of tendon damage. Dr. Flatow spent the 11 years previous to joining Mount Sinai on the faculty of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.

Dr. Flatow received his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1981. He completed a surgical residency at Roosevelt Hospital, and an orthopedic residency and a year of shoulder fellowship under the direction of Charles S. Neer, II, MD, at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.

Dr. Flatow has received numerous honors and awards, and has written or edited five books and more than 170 articles and book chapters. He has served as President of American Shoulder & Elbow Surgeons, Chair of the Trustees of the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery, and as Chair of the Publications Committee and of the Council on Education of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.