Current Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Reports - Meet the Editors
Mooyeon Oh-Park
Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Mooyeon Oh-Park is Chief Medical Officer, Senior Vice President at Burke Rehabilitation Hospital and Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine and Department of Neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Health System, New York. Dr. Oh-Park is board-certified in PM&R, Sports Medicine, Electrodiagnostic Medicine, and Neuromuscular Medicine. She received 16 teaching awards with 50 peer reviewed publications in the field of PM&R including foot and ankle rehabilitation, musculoskeletal ultrasonography, and geriatric rehabilitation. She is on editorial board of AJPMR and editor-in-chief for Current Report on Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. She published more than 100 peer reviewed articles and book chapters and offered 150 presentations and educational sessions. She received 17 teaching awards from three medical schools for her dedication and excellence in medical students and graduate medical education, and four recognitions for her exceptional leadership as a healthcare administrator. Dr. Oh-Park has been serving at the Association of Academic Physiatrists (AAP) over two decades including Chair of Program Committee and the Board (2019-2020), Women in Academic Physiatry Taskforce (2017-2020), and inaugural Chair of Global Academic Physiatry Subcommittee (2021-2023). She is also an active member of Geriatric Rehabilitation Community of American Association of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AAPMR). She currently serves on the board of the American Medical Rehabilitation Providers Association (AMRPA).
Jeffrey M. Cohen
Section Editor: Amputation Rehabilitation
Dr. Jeffrey M. Cohen is a Clinical Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine and an Attending Physician in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, NYU-Langone Medical Center. He is the Chief of the Medically Complex Specialty Program and the Limb Loss Program at the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine. In addition, he is the Medical Director of the NYU-Langone Amputee Support Program entitled LEAP-Learning and Encouragement for Amputees with and without Prostheses. Dr. Cohen has also served on the Program Planning Committee for the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Dr. Cohen has published and presented widely in the areas of Limb Loss and Organ Transplantation. He is the first author of chapters entitled “Limb Deficiency” and “Organ Transplantation and Rehabilitation: Process and Interdisciplinary Interventions” in the book Medical Aspects of Disability-Fifth Edition, 2016 and chapters entitled “Rehabilitation in Lower Extremity Reconstructions” and “Prosthetics in Lower Extremity Reconstructions” in the book, Reconstructive Surgery of the Lower Extremity, 2013. In addition, he is the co-author of a textbook entitled Rehabilitation Medicine and Thermography published in 2008. He is a Co-Investigator of a study entitled Studying Treatments and Effectiveness of Prosthetics Services (STEPS): Utilizing a Regional Collaborative Longitudinal Outcome Database (CLOUD) and has served as the Principal Investigator of a research study entitled Developing an Evidence Based Approach to Address Functional Level Change in Persons following Transfemoral Amputation.
Michael D. Stubblefield
Section: Cancer Rehabilitation
Dr. Michael D. Stubblefield is the Medical Director for Cancer Rehabilitation at Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation, National Medical Director for Select Medical’s ReVital Cancer Rehabilitation Program and National Medical Director for Complex Medical Rehabilitation for Select Medical’s Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospital Division. He is the former Chief of Cancer Rehabilitation at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. He is board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R), Internal Medicine, and Electrodiagnostic Medicine. His primary clinical expertise is in the identification, evaluation, and rehabilitation of neuromuscular, musculoskeletal, pain, and functional disorders resulting from cancer and its treatment, particularly those caused by radiation and neurotoxic chemotherapy. Dr. Stubblefield is an accomplished researcher who has published extensively, not only in the rehabilitation literature, but in oncology, pain management, palliative care, neurophysiology, and other journals. He has authored numerous review articles and book chapters in the field of cancer rehabilitation and is the editor of Cancer Rehabilitation: Principles and Practice, the only comprehensive textbook in this emerging field now in its second edition. Dr. Stubblefield is a fierce advocate for the development of cancer rehabilitation and survivorship programs and champions their role in restoring function and quality of life to cancer patients.
Jennifer Soo Hoo
Section Editor: Sports Medicine Rehabilitation
Dr. Jennifer Soo Hoo is an Assistant Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine’s Department of Rehabilitation Medicine. She serves as Medical Director of the Adult Sports Medicine Service. She also serves as Fellowship Director of the New York Presbyterian Sports Fellowship Program as well as Assistant Residency Program Director of the NYP PM&R Residency Program. She is a dual board-certified physician in Sports Medicine and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. She specializes in providing comprehensive non-operative sports and musculoskeletal care for patients of all levels of activity. Her expertise includes using musculoskeletal ultrasound to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of injuries as well as cutting edge procedures/modalities, such as platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections and ESWT (shockwave therapy). Dr. Soo Hoo is currently a U.S Soccer Network Physician and works with the US Soccer U-20 women’s team and the US Paralympic Soccer team.
Robert Bowers
Section Editor: Sports Medicine Rehabilitation
Robert Bowers is a sports medicine physiatrist at Emory in Atlanta GA. Prior to medicine, Dr Bowers played division 1 college baseball at Furman University and received a PhD in exercise physiology from Auburn University. He subsequently attended medical school at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine-Georgia Campus and completed a residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation and a sports medicine fellowship at Emory. His current clinical and research interests include baseball medicine and throwing athletes, interventional ultrasound guided procedures, diagnostic ultrasound, and orthobiologics. Specifically, Dr Bowers is interested in neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome and peripheral nerve conditions in throwing athletes. Dr Bowers is the director of the Emory Baseball Medicine program and serves as a team physician for Georgia Tech Baseball, the Atlanta Braves, and the College Park SkyHawks.
Jamie Ott
Section Editor: Stroke Rehabilitation
Dr. Jamie Ott is a clinical educator for University of Washington Rehabilitation Medicine (PM&R) resident physicians and an attending physiatrist specializing in Brain Injury Medicine at Harborview Medical Center. She completed her PM&R residency at Kessler/Rutgers NJ Medical School and Brain Injury Medicine Fellowship at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab/Northwestern University. She is interested in optimizing quality of life and functional outcomes for survivors of Traumatic Brain Injury and Stroke.
Marlís González-Fernández
Section Editor: Swallowing Disorders
Dr. González-Fernández has provided clinical services and conducted research at Johns Hopkins since 2004. She obtained her medical degree from the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, residency and chief residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Sinai Hospital of Baltimore. She joined the JH PM&R department’s faculty after residency as an Instructor and T-32 research fellow completing PhD training in the Bloomberg School of Public Health/School of Medicine with a focus in clinical investigation. Her primary research interests include swallowing physiology, swallowing disorders after stroke and dysphagia rehabilitation. Dr. González-Fernández is currently Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Orthopaedic Surgery. She serves as Vice chair for clinical affairs in the PM&R department. She has been the main physician for the outpatient limb loss rehabilitation clinics at Johns Hopkins for 15 years leading a team including therapists and prosthetists. She also provides neurorehabilitation evaluation for patients with dysphagia and spasticity.
Haris Choudry
Section Editor: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Education
Haris Choudry, MD, MPH is the Residency Program Director for the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency at Burke Rehab Hospital where he is also an attending physician. He is an active member of the New York Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (NYSPM&R) where he serves as the Program Director, the Association of Academic Physiatrists (AAP) where he serves on the Education Committee, the American Association of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AAPMR) where he serves on the Education Content Advisory Committee, and the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (ISPRM).
Dr. Choudry received his medical degree from the University of Oklahoma College Of Medicine; his intern year at the OU-TU School of Community Medicine; and his Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residency training at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn, NY. He is board-certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R). Dr. Choudry focuses his care on inpatient rehabilitation of stroke and amputee patients. He values being able to develop a long term relationship with patients while helping them navigate their recovery. Dr. Choudry has a Masters of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is a believer in better health care outcomes through better education and seeks to take the time to help each individual patient better understand and overcome their illnesses.
Derek Ho
Section Editor: Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation
Dr. Derek Ho is an Assistant Professor at Montefiore Medical Center’s Department of Rehabilitation Medicine and Associate Program Director for the residency training program in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) at Montefiore and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He also serves as core faculty for Montefiore’s Sports Medicine Fellowship and is a Head Team Physician for SUNY Maritime College. Dr. Ho attended medical school at NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed his residency in PM&R at NYU Langone Health – Rusk Rehabilitation. He subsequently completed his Sports Medicine Fellowship at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University. Dr. Ho is highly skilled in the diagnosis and management of sports related musculoskeletal conditions including non-operative fracture care, concussion management, ultrasound diagnosis and guided procedures, and cutting-edge regenerative medicine techniques.