Dr. Dan Zlotolow, MDFAOA

Dr. Zlotolow is a pediatric and adult upper limb and peripheral nerve surgeon specializing in the care of brachial plexus and peripheral nerve injuries, spinal cord injuries, spasticity due to stroke, brain injury, or cerebral palsy, complex post-traumatic deformities, congenital differences, arthrogryposis, and limb deficiencies. At HSS, he leads a team of the only fellowship-trained Pediatric Hand Surgeons in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Internationally, he leads medical outreach missions to Havana, Cuba and Kigali, Rwanda and has founded 3 professional societies including PlexusNexus and the Pediatric Hand International Society of Surgeons (PHISOS). He travels nationally and internationally as a visiting professor and lecturer and has published extensively. He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Hand Surgery, Managing Editor of www.LittleArms.org, Co-Editor of The Pediatric Upper Extremity textbook, Co-organizer of the Pediatric Upper Limb and Microsurgery (PULM) …Lecture Series, and Emeritus Chief Editor of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand Hand-e educational platform. He was also a team leader for Zion, the first pediatric hand transplant. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he is also fluent in Spanish and travels routinely to Spain and Latin America to provide patient care and physician education. He has also traveled throughout Asia and Europe in search of new and innovative techniques, some of which he was the first to perform in the United States.