Jason E. Fond
Derek Ho
Eugene L. Palatulan
<p>The clinical focus is treating musculoskeletal injuries of people ages 13 and up, from weekend warriors to high-level athletes, those who are trying to remain active, and those who need help getting active. Particular interest in ultrasound-guided interventions and other available interventions for musculoskeletal joint pain.</p>
<p>Clinical research in musculoskeletal ultrasound. </p>
<p>Eugene Palatulan, MD, MA, is a sports medicine attending physician and Assistant Professor at Montefiore Einstein. Dr. Palatulan’s clinical focus is in treating musculoskeletal injuries of adolescents and adults of all levels of fitness and ability. He has particular interest in ultrasound-guided interventions and other available interventions for the treatment of musculoskeletal joint and tendinopathy pain.</p><p>After earning his Bachelor of Arts from Swarthmore College in 2005 and his Master of Arts at Columbia University in 2006, Dr. Palatulan spent several years in education, teaching high school biology in Bronx public high schools. He then pursued his medical education, first completing his post-baccalaureate with State University of New York at Buffalo in 2013, then pursuing his Doctor of Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University, earning his medical degree in 2017. He completed his physical medicine and rehabilitation residency at NewYork-Presbyterian–Columbia/Cornell in 2021, and his sports medicine fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in 2022. Throughout his career, he has enjoyed taking a holistic approach in the care of athletes and patients of all ages and abilities. He has been a team physician for a multitude of teams of all levels. He has worked as team physician for UPENN Football, Sprint Football, Men's and Women's Lacrosse, Men's and Women's Soccer and Men's and Women's basketball teams during his fellowship at PENN Sports Medicine. He worked closely and alongside head team physicians for the Philadelphia Eagles and Philadelphia Flyers in taking care of elite professional football and hockey players and was a critical team member in getting their pre-participation physicals completed. He was part of the team who took care of the Team USA Women's soccer team during their exhibition match in Philadelphia in 2022. He enjoys covering track and field and was assistant Chief Medical Officer for the annual PENN relays and worked as track captain throughout the event. The experience served him immensely as the covering medical director for the MAAC indoor Track and Field championships at the Nike Armory Indoor Track. Dr. Palatulan also enjoys mass coverage such as marathons and he has worked as a race captain for Broad Street Run and Philadelphia Love Marathon during sports fellowship year as well as the NYC Marathon going back to his years as a medical student (2013-2017), residency years (2018-2021) and he plans to keep on volunteering as an attending physician overlooking care and injury prevention in various medical tents along the marathon. He currently directs the Montefiore Einstein Adaptive Sports program serving a vast population in the Bronx and beyond of adaptive athletes and participants. He currently enjoys being a team physician for professional athletes, local high schools and colleges, including taking care of the New York City FC II in MLS Next Pro league team. He has been vetted as part of the network of USA Soccer Federation (USSF) Preferred Provider and is proud to have taken care of US Soccer athletes and elite soccer athletes. He is also excited to be a team physician and be part of the Cool Runnings journey with the Jamaica Bobsleigh Team.</p><p>Dr. Palatulan’s clinical research focuses on musculoskeletal ultrasound and care and management of athlete injuries and access to sports medicine particularly with pre-participation physicals/screening in high school and collegiate levels. He also takes a strong interest in injury prevention and delves into research on relative energy deficiency in sports (RED-S) and overuse injuries leading to tendinopathy and soft tissue injuries. His work has been shared through peer-reviewed journals, posters and abstracts.</p><p>Dr. Palatulan is a member of several professional organizations including the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine, the New York Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and the Association of Academic Physiatrists.</p>
Mauricio Drummond, Jr.
Dr. Drummond’s clinical focus is in pediatric sports medicine with a special focus on knee pathology.
Dr. Drummond’s research interests include discoid meniscus, trochlear dysplasia, patellofemoral instability and ACL tears
<p>Mauricio Drummond Jr., MD, is an attending surgeon and Assistant Professor, Pediatrics and Orthopedic Surgery at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore. Dr. Drummond’s clinical focus is in pediatric sports medicine with a special focus on knee pathology. His interests include pediatric orthopedic surgery, complex pediatric and adolescent sports medicine, ACL, PCL and multiligament knee injuries, discoid meniscus, meniscus transplantation, patellofemoral instability, trochlear dysplasia, cartilage preservation and pediatric trauma and limb deformities.</p><p>In 1996, Dr. Drummond earned his Doctor of Medicine from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He completed his residency training at the same institution, and practiced as a knee specialist for more than 13 years in Brazil. In 2018, he came to the United States, completing an orthopedic surgery research fellowship at Cleveland Clinic Foundation in 2019 and an orthopedic sports medicine fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in 2020. He continued his postdoctoral training, completing his pediatric orthopedics and limb deformity fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center in 2021 and his pediatric orthopedics fellowship at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in 2022.</p><p>Dr. Drummond’s research interests include discoid meniscus, trochlear dysplasia, patellofemoral instability and ACL tears. He has shared his work nationally and internationally through peer-reviewed journals and podium and poster presentations. He is also a reviewer for the <em>American Journal of Sports Medicine</em>.</p><p>Dr. Drummond is a member of several professional organizations including the International Society of Arthroscopy and Knee Orthopaedic Sports Medicine (ISAKOS), the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM), the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America (POSNA) and the Pediatric Research in Sports Medicine Society (PRiSM).</p>
Pramod B. Voleti
Specializes in a wide variety of conditions involving the shoulder, elbow, and knee with a special interest and expertise in sports medicine, shoulder instability, rotator cuff tears, elbow tendinopathy, knee ligament reconstruction, meniscal pathology and cartilage restoration.<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>
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<p>Pramod B. Voleti, MD, specializes in a wide variety of conditions involving the shoulder, elbow, and knee with a special interest and expertise in sports medicine, shoulder instability, rotator cuff tears, elbow tendinopathy, knee ligament reconstruction, meniscal pathology and cartilage restoration.</p><p>Dr. Voleti graduated from Princeton University with high honors. He then received his medical degree from SUNY Downstate College of Medicine. During medical school, he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Society and earned the Christopher Pavlides Award for Excellence in Orthopedic Surgery. Dr. Voleti completed his orthopedics residency at the University of Pennsylvania, which included clinical rotations at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Hospital, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Children?s Hospital of Philadelphia, and Philadelphia VA Medical Center, in addition to a one-year research fellowship in the renowned McKay Orthopedic Research Laboratory. He completed an additional fellowship training in sports medicine and shoulder surgery at the Hospital for Special Surgery. During this fellowship, he provided medical coverage for the Brooklyn Nets, Iona College Athletics, and high school football teams in the Public Schools Athletic League.</p><p>His research has been published in over 30 peer-reviewed publications, five book chapters, and thirty presentations at regional, national, and international meetings. He is a member of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgery, the Arthroscopy Association of North America and the American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine.</p>
Kevin D. Plancher
Mooyeon Oh-Park
<p>Dr. Mooyeon Oh-Park, M.D., graduated from the Seoul National University College of Medicine. With a background in rehabilitation medicine, she wants to contribute to keeping the aging population active as a priority in healthcare. Her purpose in Rehabilitation research is to identify the older individuals early in the process of disablement, and to develop mechanism based interventions for mobility difficulty. As a member of Division of Cognitive and Motor Aging, her research involves quantitative measure of gait and balance using instrumented carpet and Swaystar inclinometer. Her eventual goal is early detection of mobility decline and dissemination of interventions for prevention of mobility decline.</p>
The clinical area of interest of Dr. Mooyeon Oh-Park includes geriatric rehabilitation from the care of master athletes to older adults with disability, electrodiagnosis, and sports medicine. The clinical area of interest of Dr. Mooyeon Oh-Park includes geriatric rehabilitation from the care of master athletes to older adults with disability, electrodiagnosis, and sports medicine.<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>
Research interest includes prevention and intervention of delirium, frailty, technology and innovation in healthcare, and preservation of mobility and function of older adults in the community. She also has expertise in healthcare management, population health, and creating value-based care.<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal><quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>
<p>Mooyeon Oh-Park, MD, MS, is Chief Medical Officer, Senior Vice President, Burke Rehabilitation Hospital, Professor, Rehabilitation Medicine and Professor, Neurology at Montefiore Einstein. Her clinical focus centers on geriatric rehabilitation from the care of master athletes to older adults with disability, electrodiagnosis and sports medicine.</p><p>After earning her Doctor of Medicine at Seoul National University College of Medicine in Seoul, South Korea, in 1989, Dr. Oh-Park completed a rotational internship in 1990 and a physical medicine and rehabilitation residency in 1991 at Seoul National University Hospital. She then came to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center to complete a postdoctoral research fellowship in biochemical immunogenetics in 1993. Following this, Dr. Oh-Park completed an internal medicine internship at Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center in 1994 before completing an additional physical medicine and rehabilitation residency at Montefiore in 1997. In 2009, Dr. Oh-Park earned her Master of Science at Einstein. She will graduate with her Master in Health Care Management from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2023.</p><p>Dr. Oh-Park’s research interests include the prevention and intervention of delirium and frailty, technology and innovation in healthcare, and preservation of mobility and function of older adults in the community. She also has expertise in healthcare management, population health and creating value-based care. Dr. Oh-Park has been principal investigator, site principal investigator and co-investigator on a number of funded research projects. Her work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and other scientific publications and she has given national and international presentations. She is also the Editor-in-Chief for the Current Report on Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, a reviewer for journals such as the <em>American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation</em> and <em>Gait and Posture</em>, and she sits on the editorial boards of several prestigious journals, such as the <em>American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Annals of Rehabilitation Medicine</em> and <em>Annals of Geriatric Research & Medicine</em>.</p><p>Dr. Oh-Park is board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Electrodiagnostic Medicine, Sports Medicine and Neuromuscular Medicine. She is also certified by the American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography (ARDMS). Dr. Oh-Park has won many awards for her work, including Best Mentor of the Year from Burke Rehabilitation Hospital in 2019, Doctor of Distinction, Exceptional Leadership Category from Westchester Business Council in 2020, Notable Women in Healthcare by Crain's New York Business in 2018, 2019 and 2021, and Outstanding Service Award from the Association of Academic Physiatrists in 2023.</p>
I. Martin Levy
<p><span>Dr. Levy graduated from SUNY Binghamton and earned his medical degree from New York Medical College. He was an assistant resident in General Surgery at Metropolitan Hospital Center, Chief Resident in Orthopaedic Surgery at Montefiore and Fellow in the Sports Medicine Service at the Hospital for Special Surgery. Dr. Levy is Attending Orthopaedic Surgeon at Montefiore. He was the Director of the Sports Medicine Service from 1983-1990 and chief of the service in 2001.</span></p>
<p>Sports medicine, ligament and cartilage injuries of the knee, throwing injuries and instability of the shoulder, arthroscopy </p>
<p>Meniscal biomechanics, ACL reconstruction, epidemiology of football injuries on artificial surfaces, measurement tools for graduate education, epidemiology of injuries of dogs participating in canine agility </p>
<p>Martin Levy, MD, is a board-certified, fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeon specializing in sports medicine and arthroscopy. He is also an expert in anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction and revision of failed ACL surgery. Dr. Levy is a Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine as well as the Orthopedic Surgery Residency Program Director. His experience is extensive, notably in arthroscopy and meniscus surgery, including meniscal repair, arthroscopic stabilization of shoulder instability, arthroscopic repair of SLAP injuries and other shoulder maladies in athletes, and arthroscopic and open solutions for patellar instability.</p><p>He earned his medical degree from New York Medical College. He was an assistant resident in general surgery at Metropolitan Hospital Center, Chief Resident in Orthopedic Surgery at Montefiore and fellow in the Sports Medicine Service at the Hospital for Special Surgery.</p><p>Dr. Levy’s early research focused on soft tissue biomechanics and injury epidemiology. More recently, he has concentrated on optimizing the surgical skills of orthopedic surgery residents using operant learning methodologies. He has created a surgical skills program for teaching the behaviors needed to use orthopedic tools fluently.</p>