Rusk Rehabilitation is the world's first and among the largest university-affiliated academic centers devoted entirely to inpatient/outpatient care, research, and training in rehabilitation medicine for both adults and pediatric patients. The system is part of the NYU Langone Medical Center and operated under the auspices of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine of the New York University School of Medicine . The Rusk Institute is named in honor of its founder, Howard A. Rusk .
7-674: The Rusk Institute has been voted the best rehabilitation hospital in New York and among the top ten in the country since 1989, when U.S. News & World Report introduced its annual "Best Hospitals" rankings. As of 2008 Steven Flanagan is the chairman of rehabilitation medicine and medical director of the Rusk Institute. Dr. Howard A. Rusk founded the Institute for Rehabilitation Medicine in 1948. His experience treating wounded soldiers during World War II led him to develop
14-701: A stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Steven Flanagan Steven R. Flanagan is a nationally renowned expert in the field of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and is professor and chairman of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the New York University School of Medicine , and the medical director of the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine at the NYU Langone Medical Center . He
21-718: The Brain Trauma Foundation . In 2008, the Brain Injury Association of New York State honored Flanagan with the "Champion of Hope Award" for his work in the field of traumatic brain injury. He received his B.S. from Fairfield University in 1984 and his M.D. from University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in 1988. He completed his residency training in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 1992. This biographical article related to
28-658: The first building to be completed in the development of the New York University-Bellevue Medical Center (now the NYU Langone Medical Center). Rusk is based out of its wing of the NYU Langone Main Campus, but additionally provides rehabilitation services at three other main locations and nearly a dozen other satellite locations: This article about a United States health organization is
35-431: The institute around the philosophy that the patients are to be cared for as an entire person, not only the physical disability or illness. In 1984, the institute was renamed so in his honor. The institute opened at interim quarters located at 325 East 38th Street on June 17, 1948. It remained at that location until January 1951, when its new facility opened at 400 East 34th Street , between First Avenue and FDR Drive ,
42-702: The program a TBI Model System recognizing it as a national leader in brain injury medical research and patient care. He holds a major TBI grant from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research ; is chairman of the Brain Injury Special Interest Group of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R); and is a member of the Medical Advisory Board of
49-518: Was formerly the vice chair of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine where he was a faculty member from 1992 to 2008. He was also the medical director of the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Program which encompassed the physical, cognitive and emotional aftermaths of brain injuries. Under Flanagan's leadership, the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research designated
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