Dr. Seper Ekhtiari

Credentials

MD, MSc, FRCSC

Subspecialty(ies)

Complex Primary and Revision Hip and Knee Arthroplasty
Trauma

Overview

Dr. Seper Ekhtiari is a fellowship-trained orthopaedic surgeon who specializes in complex hip and knee replacement. He performs primary and revision hip and knee replacements at Mount Sinai Hospital and outpatient joint replacements, including robotic-assisted surgery, at Women’s College Hospital. He completed a bachelor of kinesiology at the University of Toronto, followed by medical school and residency at McMaster University. He also completed an MSc in health research methodology with Dr. Mohit Bhandari. Following this, Dr. Ekhtiari completed the Hip Society’s Müller Fellowship at the ENDO Klinik in Hamburg, Germany, and at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He later completed a complex arthroplasty fellowship at Sinai Health in Toronto.

His research focuses on randomized clinical trials and large observational data sets to answer questions about outcomes, complications and infections related to partial and total joint arthroplasty. He also has a special interest in young, active adult patients with early to moderate arthritis.

Dr. Ekhtiari is a member of several provincial and national organizations, including serving as an international committee member of the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons (AAHKS), and an executive committee member of the International Consensus Meeting on Infection (ICMI).

Affliation

• Staff Orthopaedic Surgeon, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sinai Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Division Head: Jesse Wolfstadt, 2025 - Present
• Courtesy Staff Privileges, Department of Surgery (Orthopaedics), Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Head: David Urbach, 2025 - Present
• Fellowship Instructor, Adult Lower Extremity Reconstruction Fellowship, Division of Orthopaedics, Department of Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2025 - Present
• Assistant Professor, Division of Orthopaedics, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Chair: Peter Ferguson, 2025 - Present
• Staff Orthopaedic Surgeon, Division of Orthopaedics, Department of Surgery, Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Head of Service: Dan Tushinski, July 2024 - September 2025
• Assistant Professor, Division of Orthopaedics, Department of Surgery, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Chair: Femi Ayeni, July 2024 - September 2025

Education

• Complex Arthroplasty and Lower Extremity Reconstruction, Sinai Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Chair: David Backstein, 2023-2024
• M.E. Müller European Fellowship in Hip Reconstruction Helios ENDO Klinik, Hamburg, Germany. Fellowship director: Mustafa Citak, 2022-2023
• Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Fellowship director: Vikas Khanduja, 2022-2023
• MSc, Health Research Methodology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Supervisor: Mohit Bhandari, 2019-2020
• Orthopaedic Surgery Residency, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Chair: Mohit Bhandari, 2017-2022
• MD, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 2014-2017
• Bachelor of Kinesiology with High Honours, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2008-2012

Societies and Memberships

• Faculty, Canadian Orthopaedic Resident Review in Reconstructive Surgery, 2026
• Faculty, Canadian Arthroplasty Society Fellows’ Course, 2025
• Executive committee member, International Consensus Meeting on Infection, 2023 - 2025
• Board member, Orthopaedic Device Infection Network (ODIN), 2025 - Present
• International committee member, American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons (AAHKS), 2025 - Present
• Member, Canadian Arthroplasty Society (CAS), 2023 - Present
• Member, Société Internationale de Chirurgie Orthopédique et de Traumatologie (SICOT), 2022 - Present
• Member, Canadian Orthopaedic Association (COA), 2015 - Present
• Member, Canadian Medical Association (CMA), 2014 - Present
• Member, Ontario Medical Association (OMA), 2014 - Present

Distinctions and Awards

• North American Travelling Fellowship, COA/AOA, Canada/United States of America, October 2025
• Best Presentation, Arthroscopy Association of Canada, Canadian Orthopaedic Association Annual Meeting, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, 2022
• Mohit Bhandari Resident of the Year, Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Program, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 2020
• Junior Resident of the Year Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Program, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 2019
• J.C. Kennedy Excellence in Sport Medicine Research, Oral Presentation, OMA Ontario Sport Med Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada , 2019