Panel Speakers:

Asma Kharti, MD

Infectious Diseases, Tennova Medical, Cleveland TN

Brief overview of current state pandemic, update on therapeutics, and vaccine efforts. 

Jeffrey Fine, MD

Chief, Department of PM&R, NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, Vice Chairperson, Rusk Rehabilitation

Role of the physiatrist in the management of Covid-19 in an acute rehabilitation inpatient setting.

Dayna McCarthy, DO

Sports Fellowship Program Director; Faculty, Center for Post-COVID Care, Mount Sinai Dept. of Rehabilitation & Human Performance, NY.

Role of the physiatrist in the management of survivors of Covid-19 with chronic neuromusculoskeletal symptoms.

Paulinder Rai, DO

Director, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation of Long Island, Former NYSPM&R President, 2013-2015

Impact of the pandemic in running a private physiatry office; effect on amputee population.

Additional Q&A Panelists

David Putrino, PT, PhD

Director or Rehabilitation Innovation, Abilities Research Center, Mount Sinai PM&R

Emily Fatakhov, DO

Assistant Professor, Mount Sinai PM&R