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RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine

RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine is a top podcast featuring interviews with faculty and staff of RUSK Rehabilitation as well as leaders from other rehabilitation programs around the country. These podcasts are being offered by RUSK, one of the top rehabilitation centers in the world. Your host for these interviews is Dr. Tom Elwood. He will take you behind the scenes to look at what is transpiring in the exciting world of rehabilitation research and clinical services through the eyes of those involved in making dynamic breakthroughs in health care.
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Now displaying: March, 2022
Mar 30, 2022
Welcome to this special two-part series with a panel of speakers. 
Part 1 covers various topics, including:  pulmonary conditions that could lead to the need for a transplant; if the recent resurgence of the coronavirus and its continued display of new emerging variants has affected the ability to furnish care for patients; kinds of contributions physiatry, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech-language pathology clinicians can make in preparing patients for transplantation and in optimizing function; whether rehabilitation settings differ based on the kinds of health problems that patients have; and prevention of the occurrence of hospital readmissions. 

Megan Carroll is a Board Certified Clinical Specialist in Geriatric physical therapy. She has been an intensive care unit physical therapist working at NYU Langone Health since 2015.

Camille Magsombol works on developing occupational therapy programs to support patients' successful health management of their chronic diseases, including medication management.

Christina Moriarty's work focuses on speech/swallow assessment and treatment with head and neck cancer as well patients in the surgical intensive care unit, including those with heart and lung transplants. 

Sofia Prilik is a physiatrist who serves as clinical director of inpatient cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation, with a focus on inpatient rehabilitation of lung and heart transplant patients.

Mar 16, 2022

In Part 1, we discussed the incidence and prevalence of MS in the United States; whether MS is on the rise, holding steady, or in decline; kinds of symptoms that occur either singly or in combination and their impact on patients from the perspective of psychology; roles that stress and mood disturbances play in influencing various MS symptoms; how perception of illness perception by patients has an impact on psychological distress; other kinds of therapeutic interventions to treat symptoms; cultivation of resilience among patients; and helping patients to become adept as self-managers of MS.

In Part 2, we discussed the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes among patients with MS; non-adherence to prescribed treatment plans; the extent to which lockdown policies have disrupted normal lifestyle and the ability to access health services; use of telemedicine with patients and how it compares in effectiveness with face-to-face interactions; and key insights observed as a result of working with  patients. 

Felicia Connor is the Director of Internship and Training for an APA approved internship program at NYU Langone Health, Rusk Rehabilitation. She is Board Certified in Rehabilitation Psychology and is a licensed clinical psychologist in Delaware and New York. For the last decade, she has specialized in rehabilitation of individuals with medical and neurological conditions with Traumatic Brain Injury, concussion, stroke and multiple sclerosis. She administers neuropsychological assessment and provides cognitive remediation and individual and group psychotherapy for individuals who are adjusting to their medical conditions. 

Barbara Cicero is the Program Manager of the Adult Outpatient Psychology Service at NYU Langone Health, Rusk Rehabilitation. She received her Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of CUNY and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Rehabilitation
Psychology at Mount Sinai Medical Center. In addition to her administrative responsibilities, she conducts neuropsychological evaluations and provides individual and group treatment to individuals with a variety of medical and neurological conditions. Her clinical interests include the assessment and treatment of individuals with traumatic brain injury and multiple sclerosis. 

Mar 2, 2022

In Part 1, we discussed the incidence and prevalence of MS in the United States; whether MS is on the rise, holding steady, or in decline; kinds of symptoms that occur either singly or in combination and their impact on patients from the perspective of psychology; roles that stress and mood disturbances play in influencing various MS symptoms; how perception of illness perception by patients has an impact on psychological distress; other kinds of therapeutic interventions to treat symptoms; cultivation of resilience among patients; and helping patients to become adept as self-managers of MS.

Felicia Connor is the Director of Internship and Training for an APA approved internship program at NYU Langone Health, Rusk Rehabilitation. She is Board Certified in Rehabilitation Psychology and is a licensed clinical psychologist in Delaware and New York. For the last decade, she has specialized in rehabilitation of individuals with medical and neurological conditions with Traumatic Brain Injury, concussion, stroke and multiple sclerosis. She administers neuropsychological assessment and provides cognitive remediation and individual and group psychotherapy for individuals who are adjusting to their medical conditions.

Barbara Cicero is the Program Manager of the Adult Outpatient Psychology Service at NYU Langone Health, Rusk Rehabilitation. She received her Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of CUNY and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Rehabilitation
Psychology at Mount Sinai Medical Center. In addition to her administrative responsibilities, she conducts neuropsychological evaluations and provides individual and group treatment to individuals with a variety of medical and neurological conditions. Her clinical interests include the assessment and treatment of individuals with traumatic brain injury and multiple sclerosis. 

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