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.

Fourman MS. “CORR Insights: Are There Racial or Socioeconomic Disparities in Ambulatory Outcome or Survival after Oncologic Spine Surgery for Metastatic Cancer? Results from a Medically Underserved Center” Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research (In Press)

Fourman MS, Yates AJ, Kim HJ. “Clinical Faceoff: Hip Osteoarthritis in the Setting of Adult Spinal Deformity” Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research (In Press)

Duvall JB, Massaad E, Siraj L, Kiapour A, Connolly I, Hadzipasic M, Elsamadicy AA, Williamson T, Shankar GM, Schoenfeld AJ, Fourman MS, Shin JH. “Assessment of Spinal Metastases Surgery Risk Stratification Tools in Breast Cancer by Molecular Subtype” Neurosurgery 2022 Oct 28 (EPub ahead of Print)

De la Garza Ramos R, Hamad MK, Ryvlin J, Krol O, Passias PG, Fourman MS, Shin JH, Yanamadala V, Gelfand Y, Murthy S, Yassari R. “An Artificial Neural Network Model for the Prediction of Perioperative Blood Transfusion in Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery” Journal of Clinical Medicine July 29 2022;11(15):44356

 Fourman MS, Ramsey DC, Newman ET, Schwab JH, Chen Y-L, Hung Y, Chebib I, Deshpande V, Nielsen GP, DeLaney TF, Mullen J, Raskin KR, Lozano-Calderon SA. “Assessing the Safety and Utility of Wound VAC Temporization of the Sarcoma or Benign Aggressive Tumor Bed Until Final Margins are Achieved” Annals of Surgical Oncology April 2022;29(4):2290-2298 PMID: 34751874

Massaad E, Bridge CP, Kiapour A, Fourman MS, Duvall J, Connolly I, Hadzipasic M, Shankar GM, Andriole K, Rosenthal M, Schoenfeld AJ, Bilsky MH, Shin JH. “Evaluating Frailty, Mortality, and Complications Associated with Metastatic Spine Tumor Surgery using Machine Learning-Derived Body Composition Analysis” JNS: Spine February 2022;EPub ahead of Print PMID 35213829

 Fourman MS, Ramsey DC, Newman ET, Hang M, Raskin KA, Lozano-Calderon SA. “Tubercle-Sparing Proximal Tibial Reconstruction in Patients with Primary and Metastatic Bone Disease: A Case Report” JBJS Case Connector January 12 2022;12(1). PMID 35020626

Fourman MS, Ramsey DC, Newman ET, Raskin KA, Tobert DG, Lozano-Calderon S. “How I Do It: Percutaneous Stabilization of Symptomatic Sacral and Periacetabular Metastatic Lesions with Photodynamic Nails” Journal of Surgical Oncology December 2021;124(7):1192-1199 PMID: 34291827

Fourman MS, Ramsey DC, Kleiner J, Daud A, Newman ET, Schwab JH, Chen Y-L, DeLaney TF, Mullen JR, Raskin KA, Lozano-Calderon SA. “Temporizing Wound VAC Dressing Until Final Negative Margins are Achieved Reduces Myxofibrosarcoma Local Recurrence” Annals of Surgical Oncology December 2021;28(13):9171-9176 PMID: 34143336

Fourman MS. “CORR Insights: What is the Implant Survivorship and Functional Outcome after Total Humeral Replacement in Patients with Primary Bone Tumors?” Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research August 2021;479(8):1765-1767 PMID: 33739330