Dr. Mitchell S. Fourman is an attending physician and Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Montefiore-Einstein. He earned his Bachelor of Science at Stony Brook University in 2008. He attended the University of Cambridge to earn a Master of Philosophy in Sociology in 2009 before completing his Doctor of Medicine with Distinction in Research and the Humanities in 2014 at Stony Brook University. He 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 Orthopedic Oncology at Harvard in 2021 followed by a clinical fellowship in Adult Spine and Scoliosis Surgery at the Hospital for Special Surgery in 2022 under Drs. Todd Albert, Han Jo Kim, and Sheeraz Qureshi. His research focuses include the impact of socioeconomic disparities on surgical outcomes, the management of metastatic spine disease, the implementation of value-based orthopedic 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 Orthopedic Surgery Research while a fellow at the Hospital for Special Surgery.