Mark O. Reed, MD

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Get to know Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physician Dr. Mark O. Reed, who serves patients in Las Vegas, Nevada. 

Dr. Reed is a board-certified physical medicine and rehabilitation physician who maintains his own private practice in Las Vegas, Nevada. He can also be found working alongside Dr. Joseph Schifini at his private practice, Control Pain, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Dr. Reed is licensed to practice medicine in the state of Nevada.

Dr. Reed received his medical degree in 1983 at St. George’s University School of Medicine in Grenada, West Indies. He then completed a transitional year at Amelia B Frazier Rehabilitation Center, now the Frazier Rehabilitation Institute at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky (1984 – 1985), followed by a physical medicine and rehabilitation residency at the The University of Missouri School of Medicine in Columbia, Missouri (1985 – 1987)

Dr. Reed attained board certification in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation through the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (ABPMR). The ABPMR was established in 1947 as the certifying body for the field of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation under the American Board of Medical Specialties.

Physical medicine and rehabilitation, also known as physiatry, is a branch of medicine that aims to enhance and restore functional ability and quality of life to people with physical impairments or disabilities.

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