Phorest & Trees June 2021

 

Phorest & Trees Enjoy the brevity because I’ve been deep reading topics for my lectures.

AANEM and EDx

My good friend Ileana Howard was recognized on the baseball field by the Mariners for Lou Gehrig Day.  She also was awarded the Advocacy Award by the AANEM.  She’s destined for so much more greatness. I’m super proud of her!

On ReachMD, DOXIMITY & MedPage

On coffee “The public’s limited understanding regarding the current evidence associated with stem cell therapies for osteoarthritis and tendinous pathologies may contribute to unrealistic expectations and misinformed decisions.”

Jobs

Graduate of our program Nicky Lacerda, MD is now the PM&R Associate Program Director at University of New Mexico in Albuquerque where she is looking to hire physiatrists (glacerda@unmmg.org  323-240-2298 cell). “Help us to build a PM&R residency program and department at the.  Clinical opportunities include electrodiagnostics, inpatient consults, neurorehabilitation/traumatic brain injury, musculoskeletal medicine and general rehabilitation. If you are passionate about physiatry, teaching and patient care, we have a place for you.     Albuquerque is a 4-season, mountain city with outdoor and cultural activities for all. Plus traffic and mosquitoes are minimal!”

MSK & Rheum

Congratulations to my friend Brian White, DO, an interventional physiatrist in Bassett’s PMR, for being awarded the 2020 William F. Streck Fellowship in Health Policy Management. He’s been actively fighting the good fight for years now with the Medical Society for the State of New York. An interesting idea of looking at the footwear in gout. An unusual reason for axillary pain

Trees

When You Ignore My Gender, You Dehumanize Me  was a moving description from a nonbinary medical student but what is more compelling is the slew of intense comments in response. Brings up many questions. "Am I still me? My brain injury has shaken my confidence in my own personality, my own existence. " A brain injury survivor eloquently shares her experience.