Physician Profile Page for Milan Sen MD, MBA, MS, FRCSC, FAAOS

Dr. Milan Sen is an Attending Orthopedic Surgeon at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) specializing in complex orthopedic trauma, with a particular focus on the treatment of shoulder, elbow, and pelvic injuries.

He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and serves as the Chief of Orthopedic Surgery and Director of Orthopedic Trauma at NYC Health+Hospitals/Jacobi – an American College of Surgeons Certified Level 1 Adult and Level 2 Pediatric Trauma Center in the Bronx, New York. He serves as teaching faculty for the Montefiore Orthopedic Residency Training Program, the Hospital for Special Surgery Orthopedic Trauma Fellowship, and the Montefiore Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Fellowship. Dr. Sen received the "Teacher of the Year" award from the Montefiore Orthopedic Residency Program graduating class in 2021. He has also been the recipient of multiple research grants from orthopedic organizations as well as the National Institutes of Health. 

Dr. Sen received his undergraduate and medical degrees from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and completed his orthopedic surgery residency at McGill University Health Centre in 2003. Following his residency training, Dr. Sen completed a fellowship in hand and microvascular surgery at the Christine M. Kleinert Institute in Louisville, Kentucky. He then completed a second fellowship in orthopedic trauma surgery at HSS with David Helfet, MD. In 2005, Dr. Sen was awarded the AO North America John Border Memorial European Trauma Fellowship in Zurich, Switzerland. He completed an Executive MBA/MS in Healthcare Leadership at Cornell University and is currently working on his Master of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In 2022, Dr. Sen was nominated by his peers and inducted as part of the first class of Fellows of the International Orthopedic Trauma Association.

Previously, Dr. Sen was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery and the Department of General Surgery, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he served as the Director of Upper Extremity Surgery at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH). Following that, Dr. Sen was recruited to the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston as Chief of the Division of Orthopedic Trauma (2007-2011), and Director of the Orthopedic Trauma Fellowship (2007-2013). He received the Dean's Teaching Excellence Award in 2011.

Dr. Sen serves on committees in the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the American Orthopaedic Association, the Orthopaedic Trauma Association, the Foundation for Orthopaedic Trauma, and the American Society for Surgery of the Hand. Dr. Sen has been a member of the American Orthopaedic Association's Emerging Leaders Program since 2007, and in 2012 he was selected for the American Society for Surgery of the Hand Young Leaders Program. He has authored several articles and book chapters and given over 300 lectures nationally and internationally in Asia, Europe, and South America. His primary interests include scapular fractures, fracture-dislocations of the wrist and elbow, pelvic and acetabular fractures, geriatric fractures, infection, nonunion, and nerve and soft tissue injury.

Throughout his career Dr. Sen has been involved in volunteer assignments in the developing world. He has worked with Doctors Without Borders and Orthopaedics Overseas, spending time in Tibet, Vietnam, and Haiti. In 2010 he led a surgical team to Sacre-Coeur Hospital in Milot, Haiti, to treat victims of the recent earthquake. Since 2024 he has been involved in resident and fellow education at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi, Ghana as part of the HSS Global Musculoskeletal Health Equity Division. He remains committed to international health and development by volunteering his time and skills to global projects, and he founded the Dr. Milan K. Sen Travel Award in Global Health Surgery at McGill University.

Complex orthopedic trauma including:

• Expertise in shoulder and elbow injuries
• Severe fractures (high-energy or impact) and geriatric (older adult) fractures across all regions of the body, including pelvic and periarticular injuries
• Challenging complications such as nonunion, infection, and soft tissue involvement

Upper Extremity Trauma (Shoulder & Elbow Focus)

• Management of shoulder and sterno-clavicular fractures and fracture-dislocations
• Clavicle and scapula fracture fixation
• Proximal, diaphyseal, and distal humerus fracture fixation
• Complex elbow fractures and fracture-dislocations

Forearm, Wrist & Hand Trauma

• Forearm (radius/ulna) fracture fixation
• Distal radius and wrist fracture management
• Periarticular and fracture-dislocation injuries of the wrist

Lower Extremity Trauma

• Pelvic ring and acetabular fracture fixation
• Femur fractures (proximal, shaft, distal)
• Knee fracture-dislocations
• Tibial plateau, shaft, and pilon fractures
• Fractures of the calcaneus, talus, and hindfoot

Geriatric & Fragility Fractures

• Operative management of osteoporotic fractures
• Hip and periarticular fragility fracture care

Fracture Complications & Reconstruction

• Nonunion and malunion repair
• Fracture-related infection and osteomyelitis management
• Revision fixation and limb reconstruction

Soft Tissue & Nerve Management

• Soft tissue coverage, including local rotational flaps
• Management of associated nerve injuries