Theresa M. Serra
Pediatric Medicine
<p class="MsoNormal">Theresa Serra, MD, joined the CHAM hospitalist division in 2014 after working as a pediatric hospitalist at New York Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital. Her interests include clinical research and medical education. She has conducted an IRB approved retrospective chart review examining readmission rates in pediatric patients diagnosed with osteomyelitis. Dr. Serra is currently developing a medical Spanish curriculum for faculty members in order to improve communication between patients, families and providers. Along with Courtney McNamara, MD, Dr. Serra is a co-leader of a multidisciplinary committee dedicated to standardizing and improving quality of care for patients hospitalized with the diagnosis of failure to thrive. Dr. Serra is also working on an initiative to identify vaccine delinquency in the inpatient setting through the use of SMART reports.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Dr. Serra is also collaborating with Lindsey Douglas, MD, MSCR, in an IRB approved quality improvement (QI) project to improve transition-of-care communication between hospitalists and primary care providers and to facilitate the establishment of medical homes. Dr. Serra is also a member of a subcommittee that leads monthly journal clubs/case conferences for pediatric hospitalists.</p>
Amrita K. Seehra
Scott J. Schafler
Elayna O. Rubens
<p>Elayna Rubens, MD, is Co-Director, Intraoperative Neurophysiologic Monitoring Service at Montefiore Einstein and Assistant Professor, Neurology at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Rubens’s primary clinical focus is performing intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring to enhance the safety of surgeries that may affect the brain, spinal cord or peripheral nerves.</p><p>After obtaining her Bachelor of Science in biology and neurobiology from Cornell University in 1998, Dr. Rubens earned her Doctor of Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 2003. Dr. Rubens completed her neurology residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 2007, where she was Chief Resident in her final year. She went on to complete a clinical neurophysiology fellowship at NewYork-Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center in 2009.</p><p>Dr. Rubens’s research focuses on enhancing neurophysiologic monitoring techniques to improve the safety of surgeries involving the nervous system. Her research also involves using clinical evoked potential testing and electroencephalography to improve neurologic patient care, particularly in the critical care setting. She has shared her work through numerous peer-reviewed publications and invited presentations.</p><p>Dr. Rubens is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. She is a Fellow of the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society and member of the American Epilepsy Society and the American Academy of Neurology.</p>
Edward I. Reichman
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">BOOKS</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><em>The Anatomy of Jewish Law: A Fresh Dissection of the Relationship Between Medicine, Medical History and Rabbinic Literature</em> (Maggid/OU/YU Presses, 2022)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tms Rmn', serif;"><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pondering Pre-Modern(a) Pandemics in Jewish History: Essays Inspired by and Written during the Covid-19 Pandemic by an Emergency Medicine Physician</span></em><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> (Shikey Press, 2022)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tms Rmn', serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">E. Reichman, "Hidden Treasures in Jewish Medical History at the British Library: A Post Cyber-Attack Homage," </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Seforim Blog </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">(</span><a style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" href="https://seforimblog.com/"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">https://seforimblog.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">), May 28, 2024.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tms Rmn', serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">E. Reichman, "An Unexpected Epistolary Discovery and the Shared Medical Journeys of Tuviya HaRofe and Gabriel Felix," </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Seforim Blog </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">(</span><a style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" href="https://seforimblog.com/"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">https://seforimblog.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">), February 18, 2024.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tms Rmn', serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">E. Reichman, "The Physician-<em>Ḥaver</em> in Early Modern Italy: A Reunion of Long Forgotten 'Friends,'" </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Seforim Blog </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">(</span><a style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" href="https://seforimblog.com/"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">https://seforimblog.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">), December 4, 2023.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tms Rmn', serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">E. Reichman, "Jewish Medical History in Barukh Epstein's <em>Mekor Barukh</em>: When the Doctor's Became Rabbis, the Jewish People Were Healthy," in press.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tms Rmn', serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">E. Reichman, "The Discovery of a Lost '<em>Haver</em>': A Previously Unknown <em>Haver</em> Diploma Granted by Rabbi Solomon b. Isaac Marini to a Medical Graduate of the University of Padua," in press. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tms Rmn', serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">E. Reichman, “Royal Treatment: Jews, Medicine and the British Kingdom,” <em>Mishpacha Magazine: Pendulum</em> (Succos 5784), 50-57.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tms Rmn', serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">E. Reichman, "The Anatomy of an Auction: A Previously Undissected Body of Literature on the History of the Jews and Postmortem Dissection," Seforim Blog </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">(</span><a style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" href="https://seforimblog.com/"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">https://seforimblog.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">), June 13, 2023.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">E. Reichman, "The Jewish Attraction to the Medical Profession in Physicians' Own Words: A Mesorah of Medicine," Hakirah 34 (Fall 2023), 215-236.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">E. Reichman, "A 'Pictor'ial History of a 'Koppel' Jewish Physicians in Early Modern Germany: Koppel (Jacob) Mehler (AKA Copilius Pictor) and His Son Juda Coppillia Pictor," <em>Aschkenas</em> 33:1 (2023), 167-193.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">E. Reichman, "On Pain of Death: Postmortem Pain Perception in Rabbinic Literature," in S. Kottek, K. Collins and H. Paavilainen, <em>Contemporary Issues at the End of Life in the Jewish Tradition</em> (Lambert Academic Publishing, 2023), 173-196.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">E. Reichman, “’A Physician, and Not for Himself’: Revisiting a Rare Jewish Physician Epithet That Should So Remain,” <em style="font-size: 14px;">Koroth </em>26 (2021-2022), 1-20.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “‘Hidden’ Medical Diplomas of Jewish Physicians from the Early Modern Period: Transcripts in Manuscripts,” </span></span>forthcoming.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">E. Reichman, “Jews, Medicine and the University of Padua: A Behind the Scenes (Virtual) Tour of a New Exhibit at the Jewish Museum of Padua (November 2, 2022- December 31, 2022),” Seforim Blog (<a href="https://seforimblog.com/"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">https://seforimblog.com</span></a>), December 1, 2022.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">E. Reichman, "How Jews of Yesteryear Celebrated Graduation from Medical School: Congratulatory Poems for Jewish Medical Graduates in the 17th and 18th Centuries- An Unrecognized Genre," </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><em>Seforim Blog</em> (</span><a style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" href="https://seforimblog.com/"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">https://seforimblog.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">), May 29, 2022.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, A “Haro”ing Tale of a Jewish Medical Student: Notes on David de Haro (1611-1636): The First Jewish Medical Graduate of the University of Leiden,”</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <em>Studia Rosenthaliana</em> 48:1 (2022), 30-52.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, " The Medical Diploma of Moses Crespino from the University of Padua (1647): The Only 'Jewish' Medical Diploma in History," </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><em>Tradition Online</em> (July 24, 2022).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">E. Reichman, “On the Longevity of the Ancient (and Pre-Modern) Interpretations of Medical Passages,” Letter to the Editor, Response to Eric Lawee, “Eleazar Ashkenazi on the Longevity of the Ancients,” </span><em style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tradition</em><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><em style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Online</em><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> (March 15, 2022).</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “The Mystery of the Medical Training of the Many Isaac Wallichs: Amsterdam (1675), Leiden (1675), Padua (1683) and Halle (1703),” </span><em style="font-size: 12pt;">Hakirah</em><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> 31 (Winter 2022), 313-330.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “The Discovery of a Hidden Treasure in the Vatican and the Correction of a Centuries-Old Error,” <em>Seforim Blog</em> (</span><a style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" href="https://seforimblog.com/"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">https://seforimblog.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">), January 11, 2022.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">E. Reichman, “Confessions of a Would-be Forger: The Medical Diploma of Tobias Cohn (Tuvia Ha-Rofeh) and Other Jewish Medical Graduates of the University of Padua,” in Kenneth Collins and Samuel Kottek, eds., </span><em style="font-size: 16px;">Ma'ase Tuviya (Venice, 1708): Tuviya Cohen on Medicine and Science</em><span style="font-size: 16px;"> (Jerusalem: Muriel and Philip Berman Medical Library of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2021), 79-127.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">E. Reichman, “Samuel Vita Della Volta (1772-1853): An Underappreciated Bibliophile and his Medical ‘Diploma’tic Journey,” Seforim Blog (</span><a style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" href="https://seforimblog.com/"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">https://seforimblog.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">), November 5, 2021. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tms Rmn', serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">E. Reichman, “Rabbi Moshe Tendler, zt”l: A Pioneer of ‘Synthetic’ Biology of the Torah Variety,” <em>Traditiononline.org</em> (October 1, 2021).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">E. Reichman, “Notes on the Jewish Renaissance Physician Gabriel Felix: His Grammar Tree and His Family Tree,”</span><span style="font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><em>Korot</em> 25 (2019-2020), 339-353.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “Precedented Times: The Rabbinic Response to Covid-19 and Pandemics Throughout the Ages,” in press.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “A Jewish Doctor's Trip to the Vatican: A Medical Historical Odyssey,” <em>Verapo Yerape</em>, in press.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">E. Reichman, “The Illustrated Life of an Illustrious Renaissance Jew: Rabbi Dr. Shimshon Morpurgo (1681-1740),” Seforim Blog (<a href="https://seforimblog.com/"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">https://seforimblog.com</span></a>), June 22, 2021.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, "The 'Doctored' Medical Diploma of Samuel, the Son of Menaseh ben Israel: Forgery of 'For Jewry'," </span><span style="font-size: 16px;">Seforim Blog (https://seforimblog.com), March 23, 2021.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, "The Physicians of the Rome Plague of 1656, Yaakov Zahalon and Hananiah Modigliano," </span><span style="font-size: 16px;">Seforim Blog (https://seforimblog.com), February 19, 2021.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman and M. Butler, “The Medical Training and Yet Another (Previously Unknown) Legacy of Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski, zt"l,” </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Seforim Blog (https://seforimblog.com), February 2, 2021.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “Picturing Pandemic Prayer,” </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Seforim Blog (https://seforimblog.com), January 29, 2021.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, "<em>Covid Lev Paraoh</em>: Did the Egyptian King Suffer from Coronavirus?" (OU.org), January 28, 2021. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “Pandemic Bibliopenia: A Preliminary Report of Disease Eradication,” </span><span style="font-size: 16px;">Seforim Blog (https://seforimblog.com), November 23, 2020.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “What Became of Tychsen? The Non-Jewish ‘Rabbi’ and his ‘Congregation’ of Jewish Medical Students,” Seforim Blog (https://seforimblog.com), November 1, 2020.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “From Graduation to Contagion: Jewish Physicians Facing Plague in Padua, 1631” <em>Lehrhaus</em> (thelehrhaus.com), September 8, 2020.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; color: #000529;">Lo studio e la pratica della medicina per gli ebrei nell’Italia del tardo Rinascimento,” in A. Contessa, et. al., eds, <em>Oltre il ghetto. Dentro & Fuori</em> (Silvana Editoriale: Ferrara, 2020), 90-95. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “Medicine and the Jews: Training and Practice in Late Renaissance Italy,” in the inaugural exhibition catalogue of the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “From Cholera to Coronavirus: Recurrent Pandemics with Recurrent Rabbinic Responses,” Tradition Online (April 2, 2020) <a href="https://traditiononline.org/from-cholera-to-coronavirus-recurring-pande… style="color: blue;">https://traditiononline.org/from-cholera-to-coronavirus-recurring-pande…;
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “Incensed by Coronavirus: Prayer and <em>Ketoret</em> in Times of Epidemic,” <em>Lehrhaus</em> (March 15, 2020) <a href="https://thelehrhaus.com/timely-thoughts/incensed-by-coronavirus-prayer-… style="color: blue;">https://thelehrhaus.com/timely-thoughts/incensed-by-coronavirus-prayer-…;
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “<em>The Lost Library</em> by Dan Rabinowitz and the ‘Burial of Souls’ by Yehuda Leib Katznelson: Different Expressions of the Same Sentiment,” <em>The Seforim Blog</em> (April 3, 2019), available at https://seforimblog.com/2019/04/the-lost-library-by-dan-rabinowitz-and-…;
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “Scientists: Don’t Leave Religious Communities Out in the Cold,” (Opinion Essay) <em>Leapsmag</em>, March 12, 2019.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “The Yeshiva Medical School: The Evolution of Educational Programs Combining Jewish Studies and Medical Training,” <em>Tradition</em> 51:3(Summer 2019), 41-56.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “The Life and Work of Dr. Menachem Mendel Yehuda Leib Sergei: A Torah U’Madda Titan of the Early Twentieth Century,” <em>Hakirah</em> 27 (Fall 2019), 119-146.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “Postmortem Fetal Extraction before Burial of a Pregnant Woman: A Forgotten Custom That Should Remain Buried,” <em>Korot</em> 24 (2017-2018), 19-43.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman and S. Reichman, “The Definition of Maternity Revisited: The Double Helix (Spiral) of Torah and Madda,” <em>Torah to Go</em> (May, 2018: Shavuot 5778), 21-25.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> E. Reichman and A. Dysert, “A Tour of the Osler Library of the History of Medicine Through Jewish Eyes,” <em>Hakirah</em> 24 (Spring 2018).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “Shared Biological Paternity in Rabbinic Literature: From Goliath to Mitochondrial DNA and the Three-Parent Embryo,” in press. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “The Valmadonna Trust Broadside Collection and a Virtual Reunion of the Jewish Medical Students of Padua,” <em>Verapo Yerapei: Journal of Torah and Medicine of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine Synagogue </em>7 (2017), 55-76.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “The History of the Jewish Medical Student Dissertation: An Evolving Jewish Tradition,” in in J. Karp and M. Schaikewitz, eds., <em>Sacred Training: A Halakhic Guidebook for Medical Students and Residents</em> (Ammud Press: New York, 2018), xvii- xxxvii.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “The Riddle of Samson and the Spontaneous Generation of Bees: The Bugonia Myth, the Crosspollination that Wasn’t, and the <em>Heter</em> for Honey That Might Have Been,” in Menachem Butler and Marian E. Frankston, eds., <em>Essays for a Jewish Lifetime: Burton D. Morris Jubilee Volume </em>(New York: Hakirah Press), in press.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “Zika Virus in Halakhah,” <em>Jewish Action</em> 77:2(Winter 2016), 28-31.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “A Letter from a Torah Sage of the 18<sup>th</sup> Century to the Medical Faculty of the University of Halle (January, 1763): The Selective Deference of Rabbi Yonatan Eybeschutz to Medical Expertise as a Lesson in the Complex Relationship Between Medicine and Halakhah,” <em>Verapo Yerapei: Journal of Torah and Medicine of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine Synagogue</em> 6(2015), 89-112.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “Ebola: A New Disease with an Ancient Tradition,” <em>Jewish Action</em> 75:3(Spring 2015), 62-69.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “A Matter of Life ‘in’ Death: Post Mortem Cesarean Section in History and Halakhah,” K. Collins, E. Reichman and A. Steinberg, eds., <em>In the Pathways of Maimonides: Studies in Maimonides, Medical Ethics, and Jewish Law- A Tribute to Dr. Fred Rosner</em>(Maimonides Research Institute: Haifa, 2015), 195-226.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “Pidyon Ha-Ben (Redemption of the Firstborn) in the 21<sup>st</sup> Century: An Appendix to <em>Shulhan Arukh</em>,” <em>Verapo Yerapei: Journal of Torah and Medicine of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine Synagogue</em> 5(2014), 261-287. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “The Anatomy of Prayer,” in D. Z. Feldman and S. W. Halpern, eds., <em>Mitoch HaOhel</em>: <em>Tefillah</em> (Yeshiva University Press, 2014), 37-52.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “The Mandate of Genetic Testing,” <em>Torah to Go</em>(December 18, 2012), 79-81.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “Are Two Heads Really Better Than One? Halakhic issues relating to conjoined twins and a two-headed person,” <em>Verapo Yerapei</em> : Journal of Torah and Medicine of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine 4(2012), 25-49.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “The Ethics of Disconnecting Pacemakers and Defibrillators,” Letter to the Editor, <em>Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society</em> 63(Spring 2012).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “From Maimonides the Physician to the Physician at Maimonides Medical Center: The Training of the Jewish Medical Student throughout the Ages,” <em>Verapo Yerape</em>: The Journal of Torah and Medicine of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine 3(2011), 1-25.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “The Resuscitation of Halakhah: An Animated Discussion,” in D. Z. Feldman and S. W. Halpern, eds., <em>Mitoch HaOhel</em>: The Haftorahs (Yeshiva University Press, 2011), 31-43.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “Kidney Donation in Jewish Law: A testimony to the progress of science and medical halakha,” <em>Jewish Action</em>, 71:2(Winter 2010), 18-19.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “<em>Tazria</em> and childbirth: An open and shut case,” in D. Z. Feldman and S. W. Halpern, eds., <em>Mitokh Ha-Ohel </em>(Yeshiva University Press, 2010), 263-276.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “Midrash, miracles and motherhood: The birth of Dinah and the definition of maternity,” <em>Verapo Yerape</em>: The Journal of Torah and Medicine of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine 2(2010), 15-47.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “Anatomy and the doctrine of the seven-chamber uterus in rabbinic literature,” <em>Hakirah</em> 9(Winter, 2010), 245-265.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">F. Rosner and E. Reichman, “Payment for organ donation in Jewish law,” in A. Levine, ed., Oxford Handbook of Judaism and Economics (Oxford University Press, 2010), 324-339.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “Is there life after life: Superfetation in medical, historical and rabbinic literature,” in J. Wiesen, ed., <em>And You Shall Surely Heal</em> (Yeshiva University Press, 2009), 39-55. (revised version of earlier article)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, published response to letter to the editor, <em>Jewish Action</em> 69:4(Summer, 2009), 2-4. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “What does Halacha say about vaccination?” <em>Jewish Action</em> 69:2(Winter, 2008), 10-14. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “Is there life after life: Superfetation in rabbinic literature,” inA. Axelrod and M. Oppenheim, eds., <em>Shalom Rav</em> (self publication, 2008), 99-112.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">F. Rosner, H. Goldstein, E. Reichman, eds., <em>Studies in Jewish Medical Ethics</em>(Hojers Forlag; Denmark, 2008).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “The human genome project and its impact on the Jewish family,” in F. Rosner, H. Goldstein, E. Reichman, eds., <em>Studies in Jewish Medical Ethics</em>(Hojers Forlag; Denmark, 2008), 53-58. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “The anatomy of the human body in rabbinic literature,” in F. Rosner, H. Goldstein, E. Reichman, eds., <em>Studies in Jewish Medical Ethics</em>(Hojers Forlag; Denmark, 2008), 84-91.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “The anatomy of Halakha,” in Y. Steinberg, ed., <em>Beracha Le’Avraham </em>(Jerusalem, 2008), 69-97.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “Sex selection in halakha,” <em>Tradition</em> 40:1(Spring 2007), 73-76.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “Brain death,” letter, <em>Tradition</em> 39:2(Summer, 2005), 109-110.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, "The Impact of Medical History on Medical Halakha," in <em>Medicine and Jewish Law: Volume 3 </em>(Yashar Books; Brooklyn, NY, 2005), 163-176.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “Metzitzah b’peh: A medical historical note,” <em>Intercom Journal of the Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists</em> 25:3(Fall 2005).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “Don’t pull the plug on brain death just yet,” <em>Tradition</em>, 38:4(2004), 63-69.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “End of life and sanctity of life- clinical case commentary” <em>Virtual Mentor: Ethics Journal of the American Medical Association</em> 7:5(May, 2005) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, "The Halachic Definition of Death in Light of Medical History," reprinted in D. Shatz and J. B. Wolowelsky, eds., <em>Mind, Body and Judaism: The Interaction of Jewish Law with Psychology and Biology</em> (Michael Scharf Publication Trust of Yeshiva University, Ktav Publishing House; Jersey City, NJ, 2004)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “Why is this Gene Different from All Other Genes: The Jewish Approach to Biotechnology,” in Michael Brannigan, ed., Cross Cultural Biotechnology (Rowan & Littlefield Publishers, 2004)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “Uterine Transplantation and the Case of the Mistaken Question,” <em>Tradition</em> 37:2 (Summer 2003)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “Mysterious Creatures Demystified: Review of Nosson Slifkin’s <em>Mysterious Creatures</em>,” <em>Jewish Action</em> 65:2(Winter 2004), 77-80.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “The Incorporation of Pre-Modern Scientific Theories into Biblical Literature,” <em>Jewish Bible Quarterly</em> 32,2:126 (April-June, 2004)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “Abortion and Contraception in Jewish Law,” in F. Rosner, H. Goldstein and E. Reichman ,eds., <em>Selected Topics in Jewish Medical Ethics: Proceedings of the Second International Congress on Medicine,Ethics and Jewish Law in Copenhagen</em> (Hojers Forlag: Denmark, 2003).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “Truth Telling and Disclosure in Jewish Law,” in F. Rosner, H. Goldstein and E. Reichman ,eds., <em>Selected Topics in Jewish Medical Ethics: Proceedings of the Second International Congress on Medicine,Ethics and Jewish Law in Copenhagen</em> (Hojers Forlag: Denmark, 2003).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “The Interface of Medicine, the Priesthood, and Jewish Law Throughout the Ages,” in F. Rosner, H. Goldstein and E. Reichman ,eds., <em>Selected Topics in Jewish Medical Ethics: Proceedings of the Second International Congress on Medicine,Ethics and Jewish Law in Copenhagen</em> (Hojers Forlag: Denmark, 2003).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">F. Rosner and E. Reichman, “Embryonic Stem Cell Research in Jewish Law,” <em>Journal of Halakha and Contemporary Society</em> 43(Spring 2002), 49-68.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, “Halacha is Good Public Policy in Most Stem Cell Research,” editorial, <em>Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle</em> (August 3, 2001). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, "Biblical and Talmudic Medicine: A Bibliographical Essay," in F. Rosner, <em>Encyclopedia of Biblical and Talmudic Medicine</em> (Jason Aronson, 2000).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, "The Use of Anesthesia in Circumcision: A Re-Evaluation of the Halakhic Sources," <em>Tradition </em>34:3(2000), 6-26.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, "The Incorporation of Early Scientific Theories into Rabbinic Literature: The Case of Innate Heat,"<em>The Torah U'Maddah Journal</em> 8(1998-1999), 181-99. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, "The Halakhic Chapter of Ovarian Transplantation," <em>Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought</em> 33:1(1998), 31-70.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, "A Tale of Two Stones," <em>BDD Journal of Torah and Scholarship</em> 5 (1997). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, "The Impact of Medieval Medicine on Medical Halakha: The Case of Mumia," in F. Rosner, (ed.) <em>Pioneers in Jewish Medical Ethics</em> (Jason Aronson, 1997).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, "The Rabbinic Conception of Conception: An Exercise in Fertility," <em>Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Thought</em> 31:1 (Fall 1996), 33-63.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, F. Rosner, "The Bone Called Luz," <em>Journal of History of Medicine and Allied Sciences </em>51:1 (January 1996), 52-65.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, "The Halachic Definition of Death in Light of Medical History," <em>The Torah U'Maddah Journal</em> 4(Spring 1993), 148-174.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">E. Reichman, "A Sketchy Analysis of Modigliani--an application of the methods of projective drawing analysis to the sketches of Amadeo Modigliani," <em>Einstein Quarterly Journal of Biology and Medicine</em>, 7:3(Summer 1989), 139-145.</span></p>
Aparna V.R. Polavarapu
Jelena M. Pavlovic
<p>Jelena Pavlovic, MD, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Pavlovic earned her B.S. from Ramapo College of New Jersey where she double majored in Biology and Chemistry while on full academic scholarship. She completed her MD and PhD in Molecular Medicine at Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. She was an intern in internal medicine at St. Vincent’s Hospital in New York City and a neurology resident at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, where she was also a Chief Resident. She subsequently continued her training as a fellow in Headache Medicine and Facial Pain at the Montefiore Headache Center.</p>
<p>Dr. Pavlovic is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. She is a member of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), the American Headache Society (AHS), and the International Headache Society (IHS). In addition to prior awards, she received the AHS’s "Frontiers in Headache Research" scholarship in 2012.</p>
<p>Dr. Pavlovic’s research interests broadly focus on migraine biophenotypes with a particular interest in processes that lead to the progression from episodic to chronic migraine. </p>
Puja Patel
<p>Puja Patel, MD, is an attending physician at Montefiore Einstein and Associate Professor, Neurology at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Patel's clinical focus is pediatric epilepsy, although she also sees patients with general pediatric neurological issues, including headaches, movement disorders, sleep concerns and developmental delay.</p><p>After obtaining her Bachelor of Arts in biology from Barnard College in 2005, Dr. Patel earned her Doctor of Medicine at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in 2009. She completed her internship and residency in pediatrics at NewYork-Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center in 2011. Following this, Dr. Patel came to Montefiore Einstein to continue her medical training, completing her pediatric neurology residency in 2014, a clinical neurophysiology fellowship in 2015 and a behavioral neurosciences fellowship in 2016.</p><p>Dr. Patel’s research focuses on clinical seizure prediction in the pediatric population. She has been co-investigator in several clinical drug trials investigating new anti-seizure medications. Her work has been shared through invited presentations and peer-reviewed journals, books, chapters, review articles and abstracts. She is a reviewer for scientific journals, including <em>Epilepsy Research, the Journal of Neurological Sciences and Pediatric Neurology</em>, among others.</p><p>Dr. Patel is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Neurology with special competence in Child Neurology. She is a member of the Child Neurology Society and the American Epilepsy Society.</p>
Raminder K. Parihar
Dr. Parihar is focused on expanding the DBS to improve the quality of life of patients with tremors, Parkinson's disease, and dystonia.
Dr. Parihar is interested in studying gait disorders and working to find advanced therapies to improve them.
<p><span id="docs-internal-guid-7b0a3849-df15-2ae7-5b01-dfa6f02928ba">1. Parihar, R; Mahoney, JR; Verghese, J. Relationship of Gait and Cognition in the Elderly. Curr Transl Geriatr Exp Gerontol Rep. 2013 Sep 1;2(3)</span></p>
<p>2. Bakshi K, Parihar R, Goswami SK, Walsh M, Friedman E, Wang HY. Prenatal cocaine exposure uncouples mGluR1 from Homer1 and Gq proteins. PLoS One. 2014 Mar 13;9(3):e91671. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091671. eCollection 2014</p>
<p>3. <span id="docs-internal-guid-7b0a3849-df16-5152-5f73-3dd4cf8c18ee">Parihar R, Alterman R, Papavassiliou E, Tarsy D, Shih LC. Comparison of VIM and STN DBS for Parkinsonian Resting and Postural/Action Tremor. Tremor Other Hyperkinetic Mov. 2015 July 6;5: 321</span></p>
<p>4. <span id="docs-internal-guid-7b0a3849-df16-989c-b0c2-e768f5de3e9a">Tarsy, Daniel, and Raminder K. Parihar. Medication-Induced Movement Disorders. Cambridge, 2015. Print.</span></p>
<p>Raminder Parihar, MD, is Director, Neuromodulation at Montefiore Einstein and Assistant Professor, Neurology at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Parihar evaluates and treats patients with different movement disorders. She is also largely involved in evaluating patients for candidacy for deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery for the treatment of different movement disorders and initiating and following up stimulation programming.</p><p>After obtaining her Bachelor of Science in biomedical sciences from the City College of New York in 2007, Dr. Parihar completed her Doctor of Medicine at Stony Brook University School of Medicine in 2009. She then came to Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she completed an internship in medicine in 2010 and her residency in adult neurology in 2013, where she was Chief Resident in her final year. Dr. Parihar completed a fellowship in movement disorders at Harvard/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 2014.</p><p>Dr. Parihar’s research focuses on gait disorders and how they can predict cognitive impairment in patients with Parkinson's disease. She also studies the impact of deep brain stimulation in improving the quality of life in patients with movement disorders. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed book chapters and publications, and she has shared her work through lectures and platform and abstract presentations.</p><p>Dr. Parihar is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. She is a member of the American Academy of Neurology, the Movement Disorders Society and the American Medical Association (AMA). In 2023, Dr. Parihar was a recipient of the Marquis Who's Who in America Award.</p>