Howard Choi Explained

Howard Choi is a physician in the United States and the principal editor of a physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) handbook, PM&R Pocketpedia, and a companion book, Pain Medicine Pocketpedia. Award for Choi include the American Medical Association Foundation Leadership Award (2001) and the Foundation for PM&R New Investigator Award (2004).^[1]

Medical education

Choi graduated from SUNY Downstate Medical Center in 1997 and received a Master's in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2004. After completing a residency in PM&R at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2001, Choi completed additional training as a clinical fellow in spinal cord injury medicine at VA Boston Healthcare System/Harvard Medical School.^[2]

Career

Choi is an assistant professor of rehabilitation medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.^[3]

Choi is developing clinical decision-making tools that integrate evidence-based medicine, expert-based medicine and health 2.0 principles.

Publications

• Choi H, Binder DS, Oropilla ML, Bernotus EE, Konya D, Nee MA, Tammaro EA, Sabharwal S . Evaluation of selected laboratory components of a comprehensive periodic health evaluation for veterans with spinal cord injury and disorders . Arch Phys Med Rehabil . 2006 . 603–10 . 87 . 5 . 16635621 . 10.1016/j.apmr.2006.02.001.
• Choi H, Liao WL, Newton KM, Onario RC, King AM, Desilets FC, Woodard EJ, Eichler ME, Frontera WR, Sabharwal S, Teng YD . Respiratory abnormalities resulting from midcervical spinal cord injury and their reversal by serotonin 1A agonists in conscious rats . J Neurosci . 2005 . 4550–9 . 25 . 18 . 15872102 . 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5135-04.2005. 6725034 . free .

Books

• Choi H, Sugar R, Fish D, Shatzer M, Krabak B. PM&R Pocketpedia. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins (2003).
• Kim HS, Fish D, Choi H. Pain Medicine Pocketpedia. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins (2011).,

References

1. Web site: Mount Sinai Welcomes Howard Choi, M.D.. Fall 2005. Spinal Connection. Mount Sinai School of Medicine. 2009-03-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060912235732/http://www.mssm.edu/rehab/spinal/pdf/fall_05.pdf . 2006-09-12.
2. http://www.mountsinai.org/profiles/howard-choi Mt. Sinai profile
3. http://directory.mssm.edu/faculty/facultyInfo.php?id=37322&deptid=35 from Mt Sinai School of Medicine website, accessed 22 Jan 2007