Dr. Patel is a board-certified Orthopedic surgeon currently practicing in Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY. He also serves as Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at New York University's Langone Hospital for Joint Diseases. He also teaches orthopedic surgery residents at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center. Dr. Patel’s expertise is in complex hand and upper extremity problems with a focused approach in both nonsurgical and surgical solutions. He has extensive experience in the surgical and non-surgical care of: General orthopedic conditions, fractures of the elbow, forearm, wrist and hand; arthritis of the wrist, thumb and fingers; flexor and extensor tendon injuries; chronic and acute wrist pain and tendonitis problems; nerve lacerations and compression syndromes (cubital, carpal tunnel); tumors, and infections and reconstruction of arthritic conditions.
Trained at Harvard Medical School, NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases, and SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Dr. Patel is sub-specialized in Hand, Upper Extremity and Microvascular Surgery. Through his residency training at in NYU/ Hospital for Joint Diseases, one of the nation’s top orthopedic surgery residency programs, and his subsequent fellowship at Harvard/Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Patel has become one of the few hand surgeons in the nation to have extensive experience in complex hand and upper extremity conditions.
Dr. Patel has also obtained additional microsurgery training at the Microsurgery Training and Research Laboratory at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center and also completed a fellowship in Orthopedic Biomechanics at the Musculoskeletal Research Center at Hospital for Joint Diseases, giving him a unique perspective in the treatment of his patients based on an acquired understanding of the biomechanics of the musculoskeletal system. His practice also offers recent advances in regenerative medicine, including stem cell therapy (Read more)
Throughout his career Dr. Patel has held prestigious medical roles including serving as the in-house physician for Madison Square Garden, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the Martha Graham Dance School. Dr. Patel has also donated hundreds of hours to charitable causes, conducting pro-bono services for underserved populations in countries like Guatemala and India, and has a passion for teaching-- both at near-by residency training programs in the New York City Metro Areas and as far-away as rural hospitals in India where has had the opportunity to educate international surgeons how to help patients in their communities.
He has numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals, has authored several book chapters in his field of expertise and has presented at National and Regional Orthopedic Surgery/Hand Surgery Annual meetings. Dr. Patel has received numerous accolades for his clinical excellence including awards at the 2005 and 2006 Annual Smith and Nephew National Resident Research Competition and the Senior Resident Research Award for basic science research in orthopedic surgery at NYU.
Dr. Patel is committed to patient care and outcomes, and his approach to medicine is "patient centered decision making". He believes that shared decision making after thoroughly understanding the condition is the best road to clinical outcome and patient satisfaction.
