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Final Program

Jaskiran Ghuman, DO (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor
Burke Rehabilitation Hospital

Dr. Ghuman has expertise in the management of patients with brain injury of all severities, disorders of consciousness, spasticity, and complementary medicine (acupuncture). She will be an attending physician at the inpatient (Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit, 2W) and the outpatient physician clinic and co-director of the Spasticity Program at Burke Rehabilitation Program and her expertise includes: botulinum toxin, baclofen pump management,
Dr. Ghuman received her Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from the New York Institute of Technology – College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2016. She completed her Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residency at Nassau University Medical Center, including her final year as the Chief Resident. She completed her fellowship in Brain Injury Medicine at the University of Texas McGovern Medical School in Houston, affiliated with TIRR (The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research) – Memorial Hermann Hospital System. She was previously a faculty investigator for the New York Traumatic Brain Injury Model System sponsored by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research.
Before joining Burke, Dr. Ghuman was the Associate Director of the Brain Injury Medicine Fellowship Program at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She received the Rehabilitation Department’s Teacher of the Year award in 2023. She has received the Compassionate Clinical Award for her clinical work at Nassau University Medical Center. Dr. Ghuman applies a multifaceted approach centered around holistic medicine and wellness for her patients. She has presented a number of scholarly works at national conferences and is faculty for the Master Spasticity Course at the National Conference for the Association of Academic Physiatrists (AAP). Dr. Ghuman is a native New Yorker and enjoys non-fiction reading, sewing, and fitness/lifting.

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