Dr. Ira Rashbaum & Dr. Samuel Mann: Role of Emotions in the Onset of Physical Health Problems, Part 2
RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine
Release Date: 09/10/2025
Dr. Kellie Owens: Ethical and Trustworthy AI in Health Care, Part 2
RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine
Dr. Kellie Owens, is an assistant professor in the section of medical ethics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. She's a sociologist and empirical bioethicist studying how digital technologies are woven into the fabric of healthcare and society and how governance structures can better support those affected by technological change. She also leads the responsible AI review process for the Division of Applied AI Technologies and with the IRB. PART 2 In medicine, we do know that examples of bias and harm from that bias have happened. The most famous case was brought to our attention from...
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Dr. Kellie Owens: Ethical and Trustworthy AI in Health Care
RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine
Dr. Kellie Owens, is an assistant professor in the section of medical ethics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. She's a sociologist and empirical bioethicist studying how digital technologies are woven into the fabric of healthcare and society and how governance structures can better support those affected by technological change. She also leads the responsible AI review process for the Division of Applied AI Technologies and with the IRB. Part 1 Dr. Owens began by indicating that by AI, she means any computer system that's designed to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence,...
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Dr. James Capozzi: High Reliability Organizations, Part 2
RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine
Dr. Capozzi is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon with specialty training in joint replacement surgery. After receiving his bachelor's degree from Columbia University, he obtained his medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He completed his orthopedic training at Mount Sinai and the Otto Alfrank Adult Joint Reconstructive Fellowship at the New England Baptist Hospital in Boston. In addition to performing hip and knee replacements, Dr. Capozzi specializes in difficult revision surgery, utilizing the newest techniques in joint reconstructive surgery. ...
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Dr. James Capozzi: High Reliability Organizations, Part 1
RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine
Dr. Capozzi is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon with specialty training in joint replacement surgery. After receiving his bachelor's degree from Columbia University, he obtained his medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He completed his orthopedic training at Mount Sinai and the Otto Alfrank Adult Joint Reconstructive Fellowship at the New England Baptist Hospital in Boston. In addition to performing hip and knee replacements, Dr. Capozzi specializes in difficult revision surgery, utilizing the newest techniques in joint reconstructive surgery. ...
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Dr. Mahya Beheshti: Visual Impairment
RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine
Dr. Mahya Beheshti is a physician-scientist at Rusk Rehabilitation, NYU Langone Health, where she works at the intersection of medicine and engineering to advance neurorehabilitation and assistive technologies. Her research focuses on neurorehabilitation, human–machine interfaces, EEG-based pattern recognition, and wearable technologies. She is particularly interested in how eye–hand coordination and multimodal neurophysiological signals can inform the development of intelligent rehabilitation systems for individuals with stroke, multiple sclerosis, and...
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Dr. Sofiya Prilik and Dr. Greg Sweeney: Cardiac Rehabilitation: Strategies to Improve Access, Part 2
RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine
Dr. Sofiya Prilik is Clinical Director of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Transplant Rehabilitation and Clinical Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the NYU Rusk Rehabilitation department. Dr. Greg Sweeney is a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Part 2 The discussion included the following topics: phases of cardiac rehabilitation; impact of mobile apps and wearables; common barriers that patients face in obtaining care; challenges aligning cardiac care with other...
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Dr. Sofiya Prilik and Dr. Greg Sweeney: Cardiac Rehabilitation: Strategies to Improve Access, Part 1
RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine
Dr. Sofiya Prilik is Clinical Director of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Transplant Rehabilitation and Clinical Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the NYU Rusk Rehabilitation department. Dr. Greg Sweeney is a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Part 1 The discussion included the following topics: nature of a webinar to be offered on June 12 at NYU on the topic of cardiac rehabilitation; measuring whether the webinar achieves its objectives; outcomes or...
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Drs. Steven Flanagan and Jonathan Whiteson: Leadership Transition, Part 3
RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine
Dr. Steven Flanagan is Howard A. Rusk Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine and Chairperson of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Rusk. He provides care for patients with physical and cognitive disabilities. He specializes in treating those who are recuperating from a stroke or brain injury. He is accompanied in this interview by Dr. Jonathan Whiteson who holds the rank of professor in both the Department of Medicine and the Department of Rehabilitation at Rusk Rehabilitation. Dr. Whiteson’s skills and expertise focus on patients recovering from coronary and lung...
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Drs. Steven Flanagan and Jonathan Whiteson: Leadership Transition, Part 2
RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine
Dr. Steven Flanagan is Howard A. Rusk Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine and Chairperson of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Rusk. He provides care for patients with physical and cognitive disabilities. He specializes in treating those who are recuperating from a stroke or brain injury. He is accompanied in this interview by Dr. Jonathan Whiteson who holds the rank of professor in both the Department of Medicine and the Department of Rehabilitation at Rusk Rehabilitation. Dr. Whiteson’s skills and expertise focus on patients recovering from coronary and lung...
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Drs. Steven Flanagan and Jonathan Whiteson: Leadership Transition, Part 1
RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine
Dr. Steven Flanagan is Howard A. Rusk Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine and Chairperson of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Rusk. He provides care for patients with physical and cognitive disabilities. He specializes in treating those who are recuperating from a stroke or brain injury. He is accompanied in this interview by Dr. Jonathan Whiteson who holds the rank of professor in both the Department of Medicine and the Department of Rehabilitation at Rusk Rehabilitation. Dr. Whiteson’s skills and expertise focus on patients recovering from coronary and lung...
info_outlineDr. Ira Rashbaum specializes in mind–body care and treatment of patients who have tension myoneural syndrome, previously known as tension myositis syndrome, a condition that causes pain and symptoms associated with tension and stress factors. His expertise is in diagnosing and treating individuals who have psychosomatic pain disorders. He has an extensive list of publications, national meeting presentations, and media appearances. As study guide committee chairperson of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, he led a project that compiled information on advances in rehabilitation medicine for more than 10,000 physicians worldwide. This position placed him at the forefront of all aspects of rehabilitation medicine.
Dr. Samuel Mann is a physician and researcher, specializing in hypertension. He has spent the past 40 years as a specialist in this condition, combining patient care, research and teaching at his institution. As a researcher, he has published 65 articles in medical and psychology journals, along with 10 book chapters on hypertension, and three books. His most recent book is “Hidden Within Us; A Radical New Understanding of the Mind-Body Connection (2022). He emphasizes that in most patients, hypertension is not a mind/body disorder. But when it is, it is not related to emotions, such as anger and anxiety that patients report, but to powerful repressed emotions, often related to a past history of stress or trauma, that are completely hidden from conscious awareness.
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The discussion included the following topics: accuracy of adults in recalling traumatic events that may have occurred in childhood, communicating with patients reluctant to discuss emotional aspects other than physical health ailments; possible distinctions among patients in different demographic groups, non-pharmacologic kinds of treatment, and status of research aimed at understanding the connection between emotions and physical health problems.