Expert Details
Adult and Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine
ID: 726696
New York, USA
Her current clinical responsibilities include diagnosing and treating patients in rehabilitation clinics and equipment clinics as well as providing consultation on a variety of physical medicine problems especially tone management, speech delay, scoliosis, orthosis, wound management and chronic pain. Her teaching responsibilities include supervising and teaching rehabilitation medicine residents during rotations on inpatient wards and clinics as well as providing didactic lectures to physiatrist residents on cerebral palsy, development, neonate examination, school age child examination, spinal cord injury, torticollis, traumatic brain injury, hypotonia diagnosis, juvenile rheumatoid disease, treating limb-deficient child, spasticity management, meningomyelocoele, neonatal reflexes and selective dorsal rhizotomy.
She has been pediatric physiatrist at her private practice firm as well as at Elizabeth Seton Pediatric Center where she was responsible for designing therapy programs, orthotics and durable medical equipment for 136 children in the skilled nursing facility. She is also skilled in insurance appeals as she has worked in that industry since 1998 and also does malpractice cases in NY and Philadelphia.
Expert has consulting experience at the Seton Pediatric Center as the physiatrist to 136 children.
Education
Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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Year: 1984 | Degree: MD | Subject: Medicine | Institution: Dartmouth Medical School |
Year: 1979 | Degree: M.A. | Subject: Cell Biology & Biochemistry | Institution: Temple University |
Year: 1977 | Degree: B.A. | Subject: Biology | Institution: Bryn Mawr College |
Work History
Years | Employer | Title | Department |
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Years: 2007 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Deputy Medical Director/Residency Program Director | Department: Rehabilitation Medicine |
Responsibilities:Expert is the deputy medical director and residency program director of rehabilitation medicine; her direct responsibility is with the residency training program in adult and pediatric rehabilitation medicine |
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Years | Employer | Title | Department |
Years: 1990 to 2007 | Employer: Saint Vincents Catholic Medical Centers | Title: Attending Physician | Department: Rehabilitation Medicine |
Responsibilities:Expert was the attending in charge of pediatric rehabilitation medicine in the department of rehabilitation medicine - she consulted three times a week at the Seton Pediatric Center as the physiatrist to 136 children |
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Years | Employer | Title | Department |
Years: 1988 to 1990 | Employer: Childrens Specialized Hospital | Title: Physiatrist | Department: Rehabilitation Medicine |
Responsibilities:She was the physiatrist in a free-standing pediatric rehabilitation hospital responsible for the care of medically fragile children during their rehabilitation - including therapy, orthotics and durable medical equipment. She also commuted to clinics in New Jersey to service outpatients. |
Career Accomplishments
Associations / Societies |
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Expert belongs to the following professional organizations: AAPMR, AACPDM, AAP and the Association of Academic Physiatrists |
Licenses / Certifications |
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Expert is licensed as a physician in NY State. |
Professional Appointments |
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Expert currently works as a Deputy Medical Director and the Residency Program Director |
Medical / Professional |
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Expert completed an internship in pediatrics at North Shore University Hospital (Cornell)in 1985 and then did a residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation in the Einstein/Montefiore/Jacobi Combined Program from 1985 to 1988. |
Additional Experience
Expert Witness Experience |
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She has experience in litigation consulting and as an expert witness in NY and Philadelphia both in depositions and in federal/state court for plaintiffs and defendents. |
Training / Seminars |
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As a residency program director, her main focus is on education - to that end, she lectures on multiple subjects in rehabilitation medicine during the academic year. |
Vendor Selection |
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She works with specific durable medical equipment vendors and orthotic /prosthetic vendors daily - using only specific vendors whom she trusts to provide the best products for her patients. She has found them after patient careful search via word of mouth within the industry. |