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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Physiatry) (Board certified since 1999)
Spine

Intradiskal Electrothermal Therapy (IDET)
Radiofrequency Ablation
pain management
spinal cord stimulator
spinal pain
vertebroplasty

Emory University Hospital
Emory University Hospital Midtown
Emory University Orthopaedics & Spine Hospital

 German

2000

Medical School
University of Frankfurt Medical School, Frankfurt, Germany 1992

Internship
Blodgett Memorial Medical Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 1995

Residency
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 1998

Manual J. Lipson Award
For Exemplary Leadership in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Teacher of the year award
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Emory University, 2002



Major or Recent Publications

Interlaminar vs. Transforaminal Epidural Injections in the Treatment of Symptomatic Lumbar Intervertebral Disk Herniations. Arch Phys Med Rehabil November 2002 83:1661, .

Lumbar Degenerative Disc Disease. Essentials of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; Lippincott 2001, .

Natural History of Non-Surgically Treated Lumbar Disc Herniations - a CT Controlled Study. University of Frankfurt, 1991. 115 pp. (Dissertation), .

Outcome Research in Low Back Pain. Orthop Clin N Am. 2003, .

Physical Function Measurements in Neck Pain. Phys Med Rehabil Clin N Am. 2002, .

Physician dosing practice for anticoagulation with Warfarin during inpatient rehabilitation . American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 79(1)69-76, 2000, .

Primary care physician's personal exercise habits and counseling practices: a national survey . Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine 10(1)40-8, 2000, .