Neuropathic Pain
Olena Slinchenkova
Adeepa D. Singh
Robert M. Simon
<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;">Disorders of the spine and musculoskeletal system, and sports medicine</span>
<p>Robert M. Simon, MD, is an attending physician and Clinical Instructor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Montefiore Einstein. Dr. Simon’s clinical interests are in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the spine and musculoskeletal system as well as sports medicine.</p><p>After completing his undergraduate education at State University of New York at Stony Brook and Pace University, Dr. Simon attended New York Medical College, earning his Doctor of Medicine in 1984. He completed his internship at Beth Israel Medical Center in 1985 and his residency at NYU Medical Center, Rusk Institute in 1988.</p><p>Dr. Simon’s research follows his clinical interests, with his work shared through textbook chapters and journal articles.</p><p>Dr. Simon is a Diplomate of the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and the American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine. He has subspecialty certification in Pain Medicine. Dr. Simon is a member of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.</p>
Naum Shaparin
<p><strong>Education</strong></p>
<p>Medical School: Rutgers New Jersey Medical School<br />Transitional Year: Atlantic Health System<br />Residency: New York Presbyterian Hospital (Anesthesiology)<br />Fellowship: Cleveland Clinic (Pain Medicine)</p>
<p><strong>Professional Activity</strong></p>
<p>Research interests include non-opioid therapies for chronic non-malignant pain, cancer pain, palliative medicine, neck/back pain, sacroiliac joint pain, peripheral nerve pain, vulvodynia/perineal pain, coccygodynia, and radiofrequency ablation, and neuromodulation.</p>
<p>Dr. Shaparin and his team create individualized treatment plans for patients with all types of chronic pain. Dr. Shaparin’s research interests include non-opioid therapies for chronic non-malignant pain, the role of regional anesthesia in arteriovenous fistula creation, coccydynia (tail bone pain), neuropathic pain in scar tissue after surgical incisions, neuropathic pain related to cancer (in particular chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuralgia/neuropathy), neuropathic pain related to HIV/AIDS or HIV/AIDS medications, vulvodynia/perineal pain, post-thoracotomy pain, neck/back pain, sacroiliac joint pain, radiofrequency ablation, and neuromodulation. Dr. Shaparin has presented over 20 abstracts at local, national and international conferences.</p>
Dr. Shaparin provides inpatient and outpatient care, with a clinical focus in acute and chronic pain management, and the use of fluoroscopic and ultrasound-guided interventional techniques for the treatment of acute and chronic pain.<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>
Dr. Shaparin's research builds on his clinical interests, and focuses on social determinants of health and its impact on chronic pain outcomes, as well as the use of non-opioid analgesics for acute and chronic pain management.<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>
<p>Naum Shaparin, MD, MBA, is Professor and Vice Chair of Business Affairs, Anesthesiology as well as the Director, Multidisciplinary Pain Program at Montefiore Einstein. Dr. Shaparin's clinical focus is in outpatient interventional pain medicine. He also has interest in general anesthesia, regional anesthesia and acute pain medicine.</p><p>In 1999, Dr. Shaparin received his Bachelor of Arts in biology from Boston University. He went on to attend Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, earning his Doctor of Medicine in 2003. After completing his internship at Morristown Memorial Hospital and Overlook Hospital in 2004, he completed a three-year anesthesiology residency at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center in 2007. He continued his postgraduate training at Cleveland Clinic, completing a yearlong pain medicine fellowship in 2008. In 2016, he completed his Master of Business Administration at New York University, Stern School of Business.</p><p>Dr. Shaparin's research interests include non-opioid therapies for chronic non-malignant pain, interventional pain procedures, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare delivery and social determinants of health with a focus on patient failure to attend pain clinic appointments. He has shared his work through peer-reviewed journals and national and international presentations.</p><p>Dr. Shaparin is board certified and is a member of several professional societies including the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists and the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians.</p>
Adarsha Selvachandran
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>
Usman S. Riaz
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>
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>