Dr. Ian Cole, Physiatrist, Joins Albany Med Staff
ALBANY, N.Y., March 27, 2008—Ian Cole, M.D, a physiatrist, has joined the physical medicine and rehabilitation staff at Albany Medical Center and has been appointed assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Albany Medical College. Dr. Cole comes to Albany Med from Locum Medical Group in Cleveland, Ohio, where he served as a staff physiatrist.
After earning his medical degree from the State University of New York in Brooklyn, Dr. Cole completed an internship in internal medicine at Saint Vincent’s Hospital in New York. Following his internship, Dr. Cole performed his residency at the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. He is board certified in physiatry by the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
Dr. Cole will see patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis and occupational related injuries, including carpel tunnel syndrome, lower back pain, and rotator cuff injuries, among others. He has a special interest in the use of electrodiagnosis—the determination of the nature of a disease through observation of changes in electrical irritability—and sodium hyaluronate injections for the treatment of knee osteoarthritis. His research interests include brain injuries and musculoskeletal injuries.
Albany Medical Center is northeastern New York’s only academic health sciences center. It consists of Albany Medical College, Albany Medical Center Hospital and the Albany Medical Center Foundation, Inc. Additional information about Albany Medical Center can be found at www.amc.edu.
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