Dr. Steven Glickel, MD

About Dr. Glickel

Dr. Glickel earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. He completed a general surgery internship and residency at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and an orthopedic surgery residency through the Harvard Combined Orthopedic Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Boston Children's Hospital. He completed fellowship training in microsurgery at Columbia Presbyterian and in hand surgery at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center. He is board certified by the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery with added qualification in surgery of the hand.

Dr. Glickel spent more than three decades on staff at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, directing its Hand Surgery Service and the C.V. Starr Hand Surgery Center. In 2016 he moved his practice to NYU Langone Medical Center, where he is Clinical Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, and he has served as Director of Hand Surgery at the Roosevelt Hand to Shoulder Center at OrthoManhattan. His practice focuses on surgery of the hand, wrist, forearm, and elbow, with particular interest in Dupuytren disease, arthritis reconstruction, and nerve compression.

He has been named to New York Magazine's physician recognition list every year since 1996 and to Castle Connolly's America's Top Doctors guide each year from 2016 through 2024. Dr. Glickel has co-authored at least 30 research papers indexed in PubMed, the U.S. National Library of Medicine database.