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Alba Miranda Azola, M.D.
- Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Joint Appointment in Pediatrics
Expertise: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Swallowing Disorders
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Philippines Garcia Cabahug, M.D.
- Director, Spinal Cord Injury Fellowship Program
- Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Expertise: Botulinum Toxin Injections, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spasticity Management, Spinal Cord Injury
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Ning Cao, M.D.
- Rehabilitation Medicine Director, Inpatient Rehabilitation Services, Johns Hopkins Medicine
- Medical Director, Meyer 7 Rehabilitation Unit, The Johns Hopkins Hospital
- Associate Professor (PAR) of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Expertise: Brain Injury Rehabilitation, Neurologic Rehabilitation, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Stroke, Stroke Rehabilitation
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Akhil Chhatre, M.D.
- Director, Spine Rehabilitation
- Director, Interventional Spine and Musculoskeletal Fellowship
- Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
- Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Expertise: Back Pain, Cervical Degenerative Disc Disease, Cervical Degenerative Disc Herniation, Cervical Radiculopathy, Cervical Spondylosis
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Tae Chung, M.D.
- Director, Johns Hopkins Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) Program
- Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Assistant Professor of Neurology
Expertise: Dermatomyositis, Electrodiagnostic Medicine (EMG), Inclusion Body Myositis, Motor Neuron Diseases, Myositis
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Cecilia Andrea Cordova Vallejos, M.D.
Expertise: Achilles Tendon Injuries, Ankle Injuries, Anterior Shoulder Instability, Arthritis of the Foot and Ankle, Arthritis of the Hand
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Alexis Morgan Coslick, D.O., M.S.
- Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Expertise: Achilles Tendon Injuries, Ankle Injuries, Arthritis, Arthritis of the Shoulder, Bursitis
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Barbara Jane De Lateur, M.D.
- Lawrence Cardinal Shehan Professor
- Director Emerita, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Distinguished Service Professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Professor Emerita of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Expertise: Deconditioning, Gait Analysis, Gait Impairment, Musculoskeletal Disorders, Neuromuscular Disease
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Mohammed Emam, M.D.
- Director, Musculoskeletal Center
- Director, Sports Medicine Fellowship Program
- Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Expertise: Ankle Injuries, Elbow Injuries, Hip Injuries, Joint Pain, Knee Injuries
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Jessica Pam Engle, D.O.
- Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Assistant Professor of Oncology
Expertise: Cancer Rehabilitation, Cancer-Related Fatigue, Chemotherapy Induced Peripheral Neuropathy, Gait Impairment, Joint Pain
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Dorianne Rachelle Feldman, M.D., M.S.
- Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Expertise: Back Pain, Cancer Rehabilitation, Joint Pain, Musculoskeletal Injuries, Myofascial Pain
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Tracy Friedlander, M.D.
- Residency Program Director, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Medical Director, Johns Hopkins Bayview Acute Comprehensive Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit
- Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Expertise: Botox Spasticity Treatment, Intrathecal Baclofen Therapy, Neuro Rehabilitation, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spasticity Management
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Marlis Gonzalez-Fernandez, M.D., Ph.D.
- Managing Director, Outpatient Operations, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Medical Director, Musculoskeletal Center at Greenspring Station
- Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Associate Professor of Art as Applied to Medicine
- Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Expertise: Amputee Rehabilitation, Botulinum Toxin Injections, Dysphagia, Dysphagia Evaluation, Neuro Rehabilitation
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Erik Hans Hoyer, M.D.
- Vice Chair for Quality, Safety and Satisfaction, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Co-director, Activity and Mobility Promotion Program, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Assistant Professor of Medicine
Expertise: Back Pain, Electrodiagnostic Medicine (EMG), Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation, Neurologic Rehabilitation, Pain Management
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Christina Georgia Kokorelis, M.D.
- Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Expertise: Concussion Rehabilitation, Dysautonomia, Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, Neurally Mediated Hypotension, Orthostatic Intolerance
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Patrick Kortebein, M.D.
- Associate Professor (PAR) of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Expertise: Deconditioning, Electrodiagnostic Medicine (EMG), Geriatric Rehabilitation, Peripheral Nerve Disorders, Peripheral Nerve Injury
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Sarah Ann Korth, M.D., M.A.
- Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Expertise: Botulinum Toxin Injections, Brain Injury, Cerebral Palsy, Congenital Spine Disorders, Neurologic Rehabilitation
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Daniel Krasna, M.D.
- Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Expertise: Botox Spasticity Treatment, Brain Injury Rehabilitation, Neurologic Rehabilitation, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Stroke Rehabilitation
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Robert Samuel Mayer, M.D.
- Vice-Chair, Education, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Director, Undergraduate Medical Education, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Expertise: Botox Spasticity Treatment, Botulinum Toxin Injections, Cancer Rehabilitation, Cerebral Palsy, Chronic Pain
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Benjamin Croft Miller, D.O.
- Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Expertise: Hip Dislocations, Knee Dislocations, Lateral Collateral Ligament Tears (LCL) Injury, Medial Collateral Ligament Tears (MCL) Injury, Medial Patellar Femoral Ligament (MPFL) Injury
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Amanda Kole Morrow, M.D.
- Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Expertise: Cerebral Palsy, Congenital Anomalies, Pediatric Rehabilitation, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spina Bifida
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Dale M Needham, M.D., Ph.D.
- Medical Director, Critical Care Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Program
- Director, Outcomes After Critical Illness and Surgery (OACIS) Group
- Professor of Medicine
- Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Expertise: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), Delirium, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
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Preeti Raghavan, M.B.B.S.
- Sheikh Khalifa Stroke Institute Professor of Stroke Treatment, Recovery and Rehabilitation
- Vice Chair for Research, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Director, Recovery and Rehabilitation, Sheikh Khalifa Stroke Institute
- Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Associate Professor of Neurology
Expertise: Brain Injury Rehabilitation, Neurologic Rehabilitation, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spasticity, Stroke
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Fenan Rassu, Ph.D., M.S.
- Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Expertise: Adjustment to Chronic Illness, Chronic Pain, Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Rehabilitation Psychology
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Albert C. Recio, M.D.
- Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Expertise: Botulinum Toxin Injections, Intrathecal Baclofen Therapy, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spasticity Management, Spinal Cord Injury
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Cristina L. Sadowsky, M.D.
- Clinical Director, International Center for Spinal Cord Injury, Kennedy Krieger Institute
- Director, Paralysis Restoration Clinic, Kennedy Krieger Institute
- Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Expertise: Neuromyelitis Optica, Pediatric Spinal Cord Injury, Spinal Cord Dysfunction, Spinal Cord Injury, Spinal Cord Trauma
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Alexius Enrique G Sandoval, M.D.
- Medical Director, Multiple Sclerosis Rehabilitation Program
Expertise: Cerebral Palsy, Movement Disorders, Multiple Sclerosis Rehabilitation, Neurologic Rehabilitation, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
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Eva Sophia Seligman, M.D.
- Director, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship Program
- Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Expertise: Concussion, Musculoskeletal Injuries, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Sports Injuries, Sports Medicine
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Kenneth H C Silver, M.D.
- Vice Chair, Clinical Affairs, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Expertise: Electrodiagnostic Medicine (EMG), Neurologic Rehabilitation, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spasticity Management, Stroke Rehabilitation
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Daniel Raphael Aaron Sova, M.D.
- Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Expertise: Arthritis, Back Pain, Bursitis, Cervical Degenerative Disc Disease, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
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Stacy Jennifer M Suskauer, M.D.
- Director, Division of Pediatric Rehabilitation in Dept. of PM&R
- Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Expertise: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
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Stephanie Pham Van, M.D.
- Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Expertise: Arthritis, Back Pain, Botox Injections, Chronic Pain, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
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Malcolm Winkle, M.D.
- Instructor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Expertise: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spinal Cord Dysfunction, Spinal Cord Injury, Spinal Cord Trauma, Traumatic and Non-traumatic Spinal Cord Injury
Rehabilitation Physicians
Physicians who specialize in physical medicine and rehabilitation are called "physiatrists." They diagnose and treat patients with musculoskeletal injuries and pain syndromes, neurological disorders and other conditions affecting nearly every aspect of physical and cognitive functioning. They are also trained in using electrodiagnostic medicine for the evaluation of various conditions. Many Johns Hopkins physiatrists are not only highly trained doctors, but also active researchers in the field of rehabilitation who teach future leaders in the specialty.
Palmer, Jeffrey, M.D.
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Professor Emeritus
Retired from medical practice
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Dr. Jeffrey Palmer is a professor emeritus of the Johns Hopkins Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. A member of the faculty since 1983, Dr. Palmer reached the rank of professor in 2002. From 2004 to 2014, he served as the Lawrence Cardinal Shehan Chair of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and the physiatrist-in-chief of The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Dr. Palmer has retired from medical practice. He remains active in research and teaching.
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After initial piano studies at the Juilliard School, Dr. Palmer obtained his undergraduate and medical degrees from New York University, and completed a residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at the University of Washington in Seattle.
During his career at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Palmer also served as a professor of functional anatomy and evolution and of otolaryngology–head and neck surgery.
The first editor-in-chief of Current Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Reports, Dr. Palmer also served on the editorial advisory boards of Dysphagia and the Japanese Journal of Comprehensive Rehabilitation Sciences. He is a past president of the Dysphagia Research Society and held leadership roles in the Association of Academic Physiatrists.
He has received numerous honors in the United States and abroad:
- Dodds-Donner Lectureship, Dysphagia Research Society, 2017
- Distinguished Academician Award, Association of Academic Physiatrists, 2016
- Distinguished Professor, Fujita Health University, 2016
- Honorary member, Japanese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine, 2014
- The B. Stanley Cohen Lectureship, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, 2010
- Listed in Who’s Who in America, by Marquis Who’s Who, 2010
- Fellow, American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, 2008
- Honorary member, Japanese Society for Dysphagia Rehabilitation, 2001
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Dr. Palmer is internationally known for his research on swallowing and swallowing disorders, which was supported by the National Institutes of Health for more than 20 years. At Johns Hopkins, Dr. Palmer directed the Swallowing and Oral Function Laboratory. His research focused on neural control of mastication and swallowing, and dynamic imaging of swallowing with videofluoroscopy and high-resolution CT.
Dr. Palmer has trained more than 25 postdoctoral research fellows, many of whom serve as faculty members at universities around the world.
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Brodsky MB, Huang M, Shanholtz C, Mendez-Tellez PA, Palmer JB, Colantuoni E, Needham DM. Recovery of Dysphagia Symptoms after Oral Endotracheal Intubation in ARDS Survivors: A 5- Year Longitudinal Study. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2016 Dec 16, in press. PMID: 27983872
Inokuchi H, González-Fernández M, Matsuo K, Brodsky MB, Yoda M, Taniguchi H, Okazaki H, Hiraoka T, Palmer JB. Electromyography of Swallowing with Fine Wire Intramuscular Electrodes in Healthy Human: Amplitude Difference of Selected Hyoid Muscles. Dysphagia. 2016 Feb; 31(1):33-40. doi: 10.1007/s00455-015-9655-9. PMID: 26487062
Matsuo K, Palmer JB. Video fluoroscopic techniques for the study of Oral Food Processing. Curr Opin Food Sci. 2016; 9:1-10, 2016. PubMed PMID: 27213138.
Kagaya H, Yokoyama M, Saitoh E, Kanamori D, Susa C, German RZ, Palmer JB. Isolated pharyngeal swallow exists during normal human feeding. Tohoku J Exp Med. 2015; 236(1):39-43. doi: 10.1620/tjem.236.39. PMID: 25947116
Inamoto Y, Saitoh E, Okada S, Kagaya H, Shibata S, Baba M, Onogi K, Hashimoto S, Katada K, Wattanapan P, Palmer JB. Anatomy of the larynx and pharynx: effects of age, gender and height revealed by multidetector computed tomography. J Oral Rehabil. 2015 Sep; 42(9):670-7. doi: 10.1111/joor.12298. PMID: 25892610
Matsuo K, Palmer JB. Coordination of oro-pharyngeal food transport during chewing and respiratory phase. Physiol Behav. 2015 Apr 1; 142:52-6. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2015.01.035. PMID: 25645606
Needham DM, Korupolu R, Zanni JM, Pradhan P, Conlantuoni E, Palmer JB, Brower RG, Fan E. Early physical medicine and rehabilitation for patients with acute respiratory failure: a quality improvement project. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2010; 91(4):536-42, 2010; DOI:10.1016/j.apmr.2010.01.002.