Armin Tehrany

Armin M. Tehrany is an American orthopaedic surgeon, assistant clinical professor of orthopedic surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, and film producer.

He is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon specializing in conditions of the shoulder and knee including rotator cuff tears, labrum tears, meniscus tears, cartilage lesions, patella dislocations, and tears of the anterior cruciate ligament. He specializes in minimally-invasive, arthroscopic surgery of the shoulder and knee.

In 2015, Tehrany became an executive producer of the feature film Birth of A Nation – a biopic about Nat Turner, the leader of the slave rebellion in 1831.

Biography Tehrany was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and raised in Staten Island, New York. He speaks English, Farsi and Spanish. From 1999 to 2000 he did sub-specialty fellowship training in arthroscopic shoulder and knee surgery at Baylor College of Medicine in San Antonio, Texas with Dr. Stephen Burkhart. His interests involve the development of minimally invasive techniques in the management of shoulder and cartilage disorders. His orthopedic research interests began at the Hospital for Special Surgery where he first published work on cartilage metabolism in 1993. He serves as a journal peer reviewer for Arthroscopy: the Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery. "Top Doctors", Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., Orthopedic Surgery, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017

Since 2018, he's been serving as a NYPD honorary surgeon.

Publications Tehrany has published and presented his research at local, national, and international meetings on topics involving the shoulder, hip, and spine. and won the Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Dramatic Competition. Fox Searchlight Pictures bought worldwide rights to the film in a deal, the largest deal at the film festival to date.

Thirst Street is the second film produced by Tehrany. It is an American-French comedy drama romance film directed by Nathan Silver, from a screenplay by Silver and C. Mason Wells. It had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 21, 2017, and was released on September 20, 2017, by Samuel Goldwyn Films.