Hospital for Special Surgery PMR

Program

Program: Hospital for Special Surgery Physiatry Primary Care Sports/Spine Fellowship
Location: New York, NY
ACGME ID: 3423534002

Physiatrist-In-Chief: Joel Press, MD
Program Director: Jonathan Kirschner, MD
Associate Program Director: Dena Barsoum, MD
Core Faculty:
- Ellen Casey, MD
- Jesse Charnoff, MD
- Paul Cooke, MD
- Andrew Creighton, DO
- George Cyril, MD
- Carlo Milani, MD, MBA
- Peter Moley, MD
- Jennifer O'Connell, MD
- Heidi Prather, DO
- James Wyss, MD, PT

Professional:
- Long Island Nets “G” League Basketball Team
- New York Red Bulls MLS soccer team
College:
- Juilliard School of Dance
- St. John's University
High School:
- PSAL High School Football

The Fellowship year consists of one month rotations. Fellows are assigned to fellowship eleven trained attendings with backgrounds in interventional spine, ultrasound, and electrodiagnostics.
Each rotation involves outpatient musculoskeletal clinics, and an interventional spine and ultrasound component. Fellows will be exposed to different styles and techniques in order to formulate their own best practices.
Each rotation has at least one half day for research or supplemental clinical experiences, like urgent care, orthopedic surgery observation or travel to offsite community practice locations.
Fellows will perform fluoroscopic and ultrasound guided spine and peripheral joint, nerve, and soft tissue injections, PRP, and Electrodiagnostic tests.
Fellows will learn to provide comprehensive care during supervised office hours and a Fellows continuity clinic.
Expert functional rehabilitation prescriptions will be incorporated.
Fellows will be exposed to diagnostic ultrasound, advanced brachia, plexus electrodiagnostics, concussion evaluations, spasticity management and adaptive sports coverage.
Fellows will develop expertise in radiology interpretation of spine and peripheral structures.

Program Coordinator: Deja Pressley
- Email: [email protected]
- Phone: 212.774.7351
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