Jaskiran Ghuman, DO, has expertise in the management of patients with brain injury of all severities, disorders of consciousness, concussion, spasticity, and complementary medicine (acupuncture). Her skills include botulinum toxin injections for spasticity with ultrasound or electric stimulation or electromyographic guidance, phenol injections, and emerging therapy with cryoneurolysis.
Dr. Ghuman received her Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from the New York Institute of Technology – College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2016. She completed her Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residency at Nassau University Medical Center, including her final year as the Chief Resident. She completed her fellowship in Brain Injury Medicine at TIRR (The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research) – Memorial Hermann Hospital System affiliated with the University of Texas McGovern Medical School in Houston. She was previously a faculty investigator for the New York Traumatic Brain Injury Model System sponsored by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research.
Before joining Burke, Dr. Ghuman was the Associate Director of the Brain Injury Medicine Fellowship Program at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She received the Rehabilitation Department’s Teacher of the Year award in 2022. She has received the Compassionate Clinical Award for her clinical work at Nassau University Medical Center. Dr. Ghuman applies a multifaceted approach centered around holistic medicine and wellness for her patients. She has presented a number of scholarly works at national conferences and is faculty for the Master Spasticity Course at the National Conference for the Association of Academic Physiatrists (AAP). She is currently The New York Society of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation’s Clinical Education and Workshop Committee Chair. She is published in two textbooks as a contributing author and a number of peer-reviewed publications in internationally circulated rehabilitation journals.
Dr. Ghuman is a native New Yorker and enjoys non-fiction reading, sewing, and fitness/lifting.
