Dr. Joel A. Delisa M.D.
Physiatrist (Physical Medicine) | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
90 Bergen St Doc 3100 Newark NJ, 07103About
Dr. Joel Delisa is a physiatrist practicing in Newark, NJ. Dr. Delisa is a medical doctor specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. As a physiatrist, Dr. Delisa focuses on a patients ability to function, and can treat multiple conditions that affect the brain, nerves, spine, bones, muscles, joints, ligaments and tendons. Dr. Delisa can diagnose and treat pain that is a result of injury, disease or a disabling condition. Physiatrists often lead a team of physical therapists, occupational therapists and physicians in a patients treatment or prevention plan.
Education and Training
University of Washington School of Medicine 1968
Board Certification
Physical Medicine and RehabilitationAmerican Board of Physical Medicine and RehabilitationABPMR- Spinal Cord Injury Medicine
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Quality of life for individuals with SCI: let's keep up the good work.
- Gabapentin in the treatment of neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury: a prospective, randomized, double-blind, crossover trial.
- The business of health care: maximizing outcomes for providers and patients.
- Central post-stroke pain syndrome: yet another use for gabapentin?
- Assessing physicians' interpersonal skills: do patients and physicians see eye-to-eye?
- Spinal cord injury computer-assisted instruction for medical students.
- Reinforcing professionalism as the cornerstone of medical care.
- Developing an integrative approach to spinal cord medicine.
- Evolution of National Institutes of Health options for rehabilitation research.
- Low back pain.
- Evolution in medicine: the dynamics of authorship.
- Shaping the future of medical rehabilitation research: Using the interdisciplinary research model.
- Physiatry: medical errors, patient safety, patient injury, and quality of care.
- Physicians with disabilities and the physician workforce: a need to reassess our policies.
- Strengthening the foundation of spinal cord research.
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