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ADVANCES IN REHABILITATION MEDICINE  
Affiliated with Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Weill Cornell Medical College  
 

SEPTEMBER 2014

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is pleased to bring you Advances in Rehabilitation Medicine. To download this edition of Advances, please click here.


Joel Stein, MD
Physiatrist-in-Chief and Chairman
Department of Rehabilitation
and Regenerative Medicine
Simon Baruch Professor

js1165@columbia.edu
jos7021@med.cornell.edu



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Dr. Joel Stein image   Letter from Dr. Joel Stein
It is my pleasure to write this letter providing a brief update on the activities and accomplishments of the rehabilitation medicine department at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital - Columbia and Cornell. Our growth phase has continued, and our department now has 25 full-time physician faculty, an additional 25 full-time faculty in our Physical and Occupational Therapy programs, three full-time stem cell laboratory scientists, and several faculty with dual appointments in Engineering and in Rehabilitation Medicine.

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Dr. Joel Stein and Dr. Peter K. Allen   Robotic Grasping System:
Helping the Severely Disabled

Over the past three years, a team of collaborators from NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, Columbia University, and the University of California/Davis has been developing an assistive robotic grasping platform to enable individuals who are severely disabled to grasp and manipulate objects using novel brain-muscle computer interfaces.

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Dr. Hannah (Aura) Shoval image   NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia to Launch
Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine Fellowship in 2015

The Pediatric Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Program at NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital is marking another milestone in its development with a new pediatric rehabilitation fellowship to be inaugurated in July 2015. Accreditation of the fellowship by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education is anticipated. The fellowship draws on the strengths and resources of the bi-campus Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital led by Joel Stein, MD, Physiatrist-in-Chief, and the Division of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital under the direction of Heakyung Kim, MD, the A. David Gurewitsch Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at Columbia University. Hannah (Aura) Shoval, MD, who currently serves as Chief Resident in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at NewYork-Presbyterian, has been selected as the first pediatric rehabilitation fellow.

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