Dr. Jina Libby and Dr. Laurenie Louissaint: Global Health Spotlight: Rehabilitation Medicine in Namibia, Part 2
RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine
Release Date: 05/22/2024
Grand Rounds: Dr. Molly Fuentes, Health Inequities Among Children with Disabilities: Focus on American Indian and Alaska Native Children. Part 1
RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine
Dr. Molly Fuentes is medical director at the inpatient rehabilitation unit at the Seattle Children’s Hospital. Dr. Fuentes is an assistant professor of rehabilitation medicine at the University of Medicine. She also is a pediatric physiatrist. She completed her undergraduate degree at Stanford University and is a graduate of the School of Medicine at the University of Michigan. She completed her residency at the University of Washington and later completed a pediatric fellowship at the Seattle Children’s Hospital. She then completed a research fellowship in pediatric injury at...
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Dr. Shae Datta: Nutritional Recovery After Concussion, Part 2
RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine
Shae Datta, MD is a Sports Neurologist with special interest in post-concussion syndrome, vestibulo-ocular dysfunction and the relation of integrative medicine on brain health. Her specific training allows for a variety of treatment modalities in the identification of mild traumatic brain injury and sideline concussion diagnosis. She has written a book chapter on the gut microbiome and its relation to headache syndromes in concussion. Her primary research interests include identifying predictors of concussion recovery, examining the role of sleep during concussion...
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Dr. Shae Datta: Nutritional Recovery After Concussion, Part 1
RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine
Shae Datta, MD is a Sports Neurologist with special interest in post-concussion syndrome, vestibulo-ocular dysfunction and the relation of integrative medicine on brain health. Her specific training allows for a variety of treatment modalities in the identification of mild traumatic brain injury and sideline concussion diagnosis. She has written a book chapter on the gut microbiome and its relation to headache syndromes in concussion. Her primary research interests include identifying predictors of concussion recovery, examining the role of sleep during concussion...
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Avery Menaker and Faye Bronstein: High Intensity Training Across the Continuum.
RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine
Avery Menaker is a senior occupational therapist at NYU Rusk Rehabilitation. She is certified as both a stroke rehabilitation specialist and a brain injury specialist. She co-leads an initiative at NYU to bring high intensity practice to patients participating in occupational therapy. Faye Bronstein is the inpatient rehabilitation clinical specialist at Rusk Rehabilitation. She is board certified in neurology, geriatrics, and physical therapy, and has led initiatives to bring high intensity training practice into the NYU inpatient setting over the past three years. The following...
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Dr. Andrew Bateman: Care of Patients with Neurological Impairments, Part 3
RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine
Dr. Andrew Bateman has worked in clinical rehabilitation and research since 1990 as a chartered physiotherapist. He was fascinated by the problem of patients with neurological conditions not doing what he expected. So, he went off to learn more about neuropsychology and did so by completing a PhD in Neuropsychology in 1997. He was at the National Health Service until 2019 when he left to take up his current academic role as a full professor of rehabilitation. He is a Past President and currently Treasurer of The Society for Research in Rehabilitation; and Chair of the...
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Dr. Andrew Bateman: Care of Patients with Neurological Impairments, Part 2
RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine
Dr. Andrew Bateman has worked in clinical rehabilitation and research since 1990 as a chartered physiotherapist. He was fascinated by the problem of patients with neurological conditions not doing what he expected. So, he went off to learn more about neuropsychology and did so by completing a PhD in Neuropsychology in 1997. He was at the National Health Service until 2019 when he left to take up his current academic role as a full professor of rehabilitation. He is a Past President and currently Treasurer of The Society for Research in Rehabilitation; and Chair of the...
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Dr. Andrew Bateman: Care of Patients with Neurological Impairments, Part 1
RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine
Dr. Andrew Bateman has worked in clinical rehabilitation and research since 1990 as a chartered physiotherapist. He was fascinated by the problem of patients with neurological conditions not doing what he expected. So, he went off to learn more about neuropsychology and did so by completing a PhD in Neuropsychology in 1997. He was at the National Health Service until 2019 when he left to take up his current academic role as a full professor of rehabilitation. He is a Past President and currently Treasurer of The Society for Research in Rehabilitation; and Chair of the...
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Dr. Sara Cuccurullo and Dr. Talya Flemming: Investigating and Analyzing the Effect of a Comprehensive Stroke Recovery Program, Part 2
RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine
The introduction is done by Dr. Steven Flanagan, Chairperson of the Department of Rehabilitation at NYU Langone Health. Sara Cuccurullo MD is Professor and Chairman, Residency Program Director in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Rutgers- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Medical Director, VP at JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute; and Physician in Chief of HMH Rehabilitation Care Transformation Services Talya Flemming MD is Medical Director: Stroke Recovery Program, Post-COVID Rehabilitation Program,...
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Dr. Sara Cuccurullo and Dr. Talya Flemming: Investigating and Analyzing the Effect of a Comprehensive Stroke Recovery Program, Part 1
RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine
The introduction is done by Dr. Steven Flanagan, Chairperson of the Department of Rehabilitation at NYU Langone Health. Sara Cuccurullo MD is Professor and Chairman, Residency Program Director in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Rutgers- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Medical Director, VP at JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute; and Physician in Chief of HMH Rehabilitation Care Transformation Services Talya Flemming MD is Medical Director: Stroke Recovery Program, Post-COVID Rehabilitation Program,...
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Kate Parkin, Mary Reilly, Angela Stolfi, and Christina Tafurt: Clinical Practice of Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, and Speech-Language Pathology, Part 4
RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine
Catherine Parkin serves as Clinical Assistant Professor, , She co-authored the book, Medical aspects of disability for the rehabilitation professionals in 2017 by the Springer Publishing Company. Mary Regina Reilly has served as the Clinical Director of Speech Language Pathology at Rusk Rehabilitation, NYU Langue Health for the last ten years. Her Master’s Degree is from Columbia University and she did her fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York. Clinical concentration has focused on pediatric dysphagia with medically complex...
info_outlineDr. Jina Libby completed her PM&R residency in Michigan. Her dedication to that profession and sports medicine extends beyond clinical practice as she serves on the executive committee for the International Rehab and Global Health Committee of AAPM&R. Her fervor for education is evident through her commitment to teaching physical medicine and rehabilitation, not only locally, but also by championing its integration on an international scale.
Beyond her current role as a fellow physician, Dr. Laurenie Louissaint's compassionate spirit leads her on frequent global impact trips, where she provides critical medical support to underserved communities, such as Haiti and Namibia. She also is an active member of the New York City cycling community while also providing medical care for injured cyclists and developing related research.
Part 1
The discussion in Part 1 included the following items: demographic aspects of Namibia, major health problems in that nation, how health care is financed, similarities with western allopathic health practices, use of traditional and alternative health care interventions, status of health professions educational institutions, and nature of the auspices sponsoring the visitation trip by U.S. clinicians to that country.
Part 2
The discussion in Part 2 included the following items: types of health professionals in the group visiting Namibia, kinds of Namibian practitioners interacted with during the visit, most evident aspects of health care in that nation where improvements would appear to be beneficial, possibly reversing the flow of clinicians to enable Namibians to spend time in U.S. clinical facilities, and health professional literature produced in that country.