Dear Colleagues,
Please join me in welcoming Dr. Seper Ekhtiari to our faculty at Mount Sinai Hospital as a Surgeon-Investigator.

Dr. Seper Ekhtiari is a fellowship-trained academic hip and knee arthroplasty surgeon. Originally born in Iran, Dr. Ekhtiari grew up in Toronto, where he completed a Bachelor of Kinesiology at the University of Toronto, followed by medical school and Orthopaedic Surgery residency at McMaster University. He also completed a Master’s of Science in Health Research Methodology under the supervision of Dr. Mohit Bhandari at McMaster University. After residency, Dr. Ekhtiari completed the prestigious Hip Society M.E. Müller Fellowship at the ENDO Klinik in Hamburg, Germany and University of Cambridge in the UK. This was followed by a Complex Arthroplasty Fellowship at Mount Sinai in Toronto. Dr. Ekhtiari was practicing as a Hip and a Knee Arthroplasty Surgeon at Hamilton Health Sciences, and was appointed as an Assistant Professor at McMaster prior to joining the Sinai Arthroplasty group.

His clinical practice includes total hip and knee replacements, partial knee replacements, and robotic-assisted surgery. Dr. Ekhtiari has over 90 peer-reviewed publications to date, and has obtained over $250,000 in research grant funding for randomized clinical trials and large observational studies. His research has been published in top journals including JAMA, The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, and Lancet Oncology. He is passionate about improving outcomes for patients undergoing joint replacement surgery, including in the care of patients with infected joint replacements. Outside the hospital, he and his wife Rosemary enjoy travelling, reading, cooking, spending time with their families, and staying active, including running, cycling, and playing tennis. He is cautiously optimistic that the Toronto Maple Leafs will win a Stanley Cup in his lifetime, and is excited to be returning to Toronto to help cheer them on.

Seper joins the busy arthroplasty group at Mount Sinai and his practice will focus on primary and revision hip and knee replacements.

Welcome, Seper!

All the best,

Peter C. Ferguson MD MSc FRCSC FAOA
Albert and Temmy Latner Chair,
Division of Orthopaedics, Department of Surgery
University of Toronto