Ettore Vulcano, MD

Dr. Ettore Vulcano is the Chief of the Columbia University Orthopedics at Mount Sinai Medical Center, an Associate Professor of Orthopedics at Columbia University, and an Adjunct Full Professor of Orthopedics at Florida International University. He is also Director of Foot & Ankle Surgery, Limb Lengthening and Deformity Correction at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach.

Dr. Vulcano has diverse and extensive training. He graduated from the University of Rome Campus Biomedico Medical School, followed by an orthopedic surgery residency at the University of Insubria in Varese, Italy.

He then completed a foot and ankle fellowship at the Institute for Foot and Ankle Reconstruction in Baltimore, MD, and an additional fellowship in limb lengthening, limb realignment, and complex reconstruction at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City.

Dr. Vulcano is an internationally recognized expert in both foot and ankle surgery, and limb lengthening and deformity correction. He pioneered modern minimally invasive foot and ankle surgery in the United States and has performed among the highest number of cases in North America. He coauthored the first US textbook on modern percutaneous surgery.