For Immediate Release
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Media Relations Manager
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Washington, DC – October 23, 2009 – National Rehabilitation
Hospital (NRH) welcomes Victor M. Ibrahim, MD and Judith Glaser, D.O.
Dr. Victor
Ibrahim joins NRH
as a staff
physician.
Dr. Ibrahim comes to NRH from New York Presbyterian Hospital, where he completed
his residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. He served as Chief
Resident in his final year there.
Dr. Ibrahim is an active member of professional societies including the American
Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, the North American Spine Society,
the American Institute of Ultrasound Medicine and the American College of Sports
Medicine.
His clinical practice emphasizes the non-surgical management of musculoskeletal
disease. Dr. Ibrahim’s clinical and research interests include fluoroscopic
guided interventional spine and joint procedures, neurodiagnostics, musculoskeletal
ultrasound, and regenerative medicine including the use of platelet rich plasma
to treat various soft tissue injuries.
He has treated a number of professional athletes including elite runners as
a medical team captain at the New York City Marathon.
Dr. Ibrahim is a clinical instructor at Georgetown University School of Medicine.
He is a former collegiate soccer player, who graduated summa cum laude from
Case Western Reserve University and Case Western Reserve School of Medicine
in Cleveland. He has lectured throughout the country and has authored several
peer reviewed articles and chapters on various sports medicine and musculoskeletal
topics.
Judith Glaser, D.O., joins the Post-Polio program as co-clinic director at
NRH. Dr. Glaser will
be working closely with Dr. Lauro Halstead, NRH Post-Polio Program Medical
Director.
Dr. Glaser comes to NRH from the New York University Langone Medical Center
and Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, where she was a senior resident
physician. She specializes in Neuro-rehabilitation services, including spasticity
management.
Prior to NRH, Dr. Glaser served as the Geriatric Research Education Coordinator
for a geriatric education grant supported through the American Geriatrics Society/John
A. Hartford Foundation Project: Geriatrics for Specialists Initiative/Geriatrics
Education for Specialty Residents (GSR). Her research focused on the improvement
of geriatric education for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residents.
In addition, Dr. Glaser recently published a peer review article in Geriatrics
and Aging called “Educating the Older Adult on Over-the-Counter Medication
Use.”
National Rehabilitation Hospital (NRH) is a private, not-for-profit facility located in Northwest Washington, D.C. NRH’s services are designed specifically for the rehabilitation of individuals with disabling injuries and illnesses such as stroke, brain injury, spinal cord injury and disease, arthritis, amputations, post-polio syndrome, chronic pain, back and neck pain, occupational injuries, cancer and cardiac disease that require medical rehabilitation, and other neurological and orthopedic conditions. NRH admits approximately 2,200 inpatients annually, has appeared on the “Best Hospitals” list in U.S. News & World Report for 15 consecutive years and is currently ranked among the top hospitals in medical rehabilitation in America. NRH has the only CARF accredited specialty program for both Spinal Cord Injury and Stroke in the region. In addition, NRH’s Spinal Cord Injury Program has been designated one of only 14 Model SCI Systems of care in the country by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), a part of the Department of Education. NRH is a proud member of MedStar Health