34: Dr. Jon Kirschner: Educator, Researcher, Clinician, and Leader in Pain Management

Dr. Jon Kirschner is a board certified specialist in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R), Sports Medicine and Electrodiagnostic Medicine.  He is also a registered musculoskeletal sonographer (R-MSK). He grew up in New York City and attending Cornell University where he graduated with honors with degrees in Nutrition and Human Biology Health and Society. He attended medical school and completed his internship in Internal Medicine at SUNY Downstate.  He completed his Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Medicine training at the Kessler Institute of Rehabilitation and UMDNJ (now Rutgers) where he served as chief resident in his final year. He then completed subspecialty fellowship training in Sports Medicine and Interventional Pain Management at Orthopedic and Spine Specialists in York, PA. He received the Earl C. Elkins award for achieving the highest score in the nation on the PMR board examination. As a resident he received the James Mclean Resident As Teacher Award for teaching excellence. Since finishing fellowship he has worked at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai where he is an assistant professor of Rehablitation Medicine and Associate fellowship director for the Sports Medicine Fellowship program. In June the residents named him Teacher of the Year. Dr. Kirschner’s goal is to restore function, reduce pain, and promote an active, healthy lifestyle using biomechanial assessments, physical therapy, diagnostic ultrasound, and selective injections using xray or ultrasound guidance when needed.  He lectures extensively and has written numerous peer reviewed journal articles and textbook chapters on the non-operative treatment of musculoskeletal disease.  He has a book coming out in a few weeks entitled Atlas of Ultrasound Guided Musculoskeletal Injections. He was awarded the ERF Materson New Investigator Grant from the Foundation for PMR in 2012 and is currently studying the role of percutaneous needle tenotomy (PNT) versus PNT and platelet rich plasma for the treatment of chronic tendinosis. He also has interests in medical education and is working on projects developing resident teaching tools for systems based practice.