Dr. Asad Siddiqi, a starring rehabilitation medicine doc who specializes successful the broad absorption of acute and chronic sports injuries, has been named main of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation astatine NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. Dr. Siddiqi is besides an adjunct prof of objective rehabilitation medicine astatine Weill Cornell Medicine and adjunct adjunct prof of rehabilitation and regenerative medicine astatine Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
In his caller role, Dr. Siddiqi volition proceed to grow the department’s wide and multifaceted offerings of carnal medicine and rehabilitation services and rise consciousness of the world-class programme astatine NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. Dr. Siddiqi antecedently served arsenic the hospital’s aesculapian manager of rehabilitation sports medicine.
“Dr. Siddiqi is an exceptional person who is dedicated to helping his patients reconstruct relation and amended their prime of life,” said Dr. Joel Stein, physiatrist-in-chief astatine NewYork-Presbyterian and seat of the departments of Rehabilitation Medicine astatine Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and Weill Cornell Medicine. “He is committed to improving wellness literacy among his patients and the assemblage by giving radical the tools they request to amended negociate their health. I’m excited to proceed moving with Dr. Siddiqi arsenic helium grows the carnal medicine and rehabilitation programme successful Brooklyn.”
“NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital is delighted to person Dr. Siddiqi pb our carnal medicine and rehabilitation program,” said Robert Guimento, president of NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. “As a longtime nonmigratory of Brooklyn, Dr. Siddiqi knows our assemblage good and is dedicated to delivering the highest level of attraction to our patients. I’m assured the section volition thrive nether his leadership.”
Dr. Siddiqi volition absorption connected increasing the programme successful Brooklyn by further processing existing inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation services successful encephalon injury, stroke, orthopedics, sports medicine, spine care, and symptom management. He aims to summation the collaboration with surgical and non-surgical experts astatine Och Spine astatine NewYork-Presbyterian, and enactment with aesculapian specialties to foster analyzable aesculapian rehabilitation programs successful areas specified arsenic cardiopulmonary illness and cancer. He besides plans to grow the department’s beingness astatine the hospital’s Center for Community Health and summation wellness outreach efforts, empowering radical to instrumentality ownership of their health.
Dr. Asad Siddiqi
“I’m thrilled to person the accidental to assistance NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital grow the carnal medicine and rehabilitation services successful Brooklyn,” said Dr. Siddiqi. “Our interdisciplinary squad works with astir each specialty successful the infirmary successful work of a azygous goal: to summation diligent relation and independence. As a cardinal portion of a patient’s continuum of care, our extremity is to enactment intimately with clinicians crossed specialties to get patients up and moving truthful they tin proceed to beryllium strong, autarkic members of our community.”
Dr. Siddiqi received his aesculapian grade from A.T. Still University – School of Osteopathic Medicine successful Arizona. He completed his residency successful carnal medicine and rehabilitation astatine NYU Langone Health’s Rusk Rehabilitation and his fellowship grooming successful superior attraction sports medicine astatine the Steadman Hawkins Clinic of the Carolinas programme astatine the University of South Carolina – Greenville School of Medicine. He serves arsenic squad doc for the City College of New York, the United Nations International School and a fig of younker sports and performing arts organizations, and has peculiar interests successful younker jock development, wounded prevention, and adaptive wheelchair sports. Dr. Siddiqi maintains progressive memberships successful respective nonrecreational societies, including the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine and the Association of Academic Physiatrists.
“Physical medicine and rehabilitation isn’t constricted to a definite portion of the assemblage oregon a definite condition. We instrumentality the adjacent measurement to look astatine however a patient’s information oregon impairment impacts however they interact with their environment. It touches galore antithetic areas of healthcare,” says Dr. Siddiqi. “This section is similar the hub of a wheel, wherever aggregate specialties interconnect to assistance a idiosyncratic get backmost to the beingness they privation to lead. I’m excited to bring unneurotic each of this acquisition for specified a dynamic and divers community.”
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