Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Residency, Royal Oak

Faculty

Meet our core clinical faculty

The department's attending staff consists of 16 board-certified physiatrists. All ABPMR subspecialties are represented within the PM&R faculty. Many members of this department were previously residents in this program. Some pursued postgraduate opportunities elsewhere and have returned to practice at Corewell Health.

A major strength of this program is the stability and diversity of the faculty, thereby providing an extremely stable environment within which the residents thrive.

Core Faculty
	Bret Burlingame, DO Residency Program Director Assistant Professor OUWB School of Medicine Residency: Beaumont Hospital – Royal Oak Fellowship: Sports Medicine/Electromyography – Michigan State University	Susan Weir, MD Assistant Residency Program Director Assistant Professor OUWB School of Medicine Residency: Beaumont Hospital – Royal Oak Fellowship: Musculoskeletal Medicine – Indiana University
	Lisa Grant, MD Assistant Residency Program Director Assistant Professor OUWB School of Medicine Residency: Beaumont Hospital – Royal Oak	Ronald Taylor, MD Department Chairman Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Director Inpatient Rehabilitation Professor OUWB School of Medicine Residency: Ohio State University
	Justin Riutta, MD Vice Chairman, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Associate Professor OUWB School of Medicine Medical Director Cancer Rehabilitation Services Director Wheelchair Clinic Medical Director Oncology Rehabilitation Unit Residency: Beaumont Hospital – Royal Oak Fellowship: Cancer Rehabilitation – The University of Pennsylvania	John Maltese, Jr., MD Director, PM&R, Beaumont Hospital, Troy Associate Professor OUWB School of Medicine Residency: Beaumont Hospital – Royal Oak
	Vikram Narula, MD Director of Electrodiagnostic Lab Assistant Professor OUWB School of Medicine Residency: Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak Fellowship: Sports Medicine/Electromyography – Michigan State University

Staff Physiatrists
	Annas Aljassem, MD, MHSA Assistant Professor OUWB School of Medicine Residency: Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak Fellowship: Hospice and Palliative Medicine – University of Michigan	Neal Alpiner, MD Assistant Professor OUWB School of Medicine Residency: Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan Fellowship: Pediatric – Children’s Hospital of Michigan
	Douglas Boven, MD Assistant Professor OUWB School of Medicine Residency: Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak Fellowship: Comprehensive Pain Specialist, Flint MI, Interventional Spine Comprehensive Pain Specialists	Christine Chamberlain, MD Assistant Professor OUWB School of Medicine Residency: Beaumont Hospital – Royal Oak
	Nancy DeSantis, DO Assistant Professor OUWB School of Medicine Residency: Albert Einstein College of Medicine	Evan Halchishick, DO Assistant Professor OUWB School of Medicine Residency: Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak Fellowship: Interventional Spine, University of Michigan
	Rajesh Iyer, MD Assistant Professor OUWB School of Medicine Residency: Beaumont Hospital – Royal Oak Fellowship: Spine & Sports Medicine – Cleveland Clinic	Randi Long, MD Assistant Professor OUWB School of Medicine Residency: Beaumont Hospital – Royal Oak
	Amish Patel, DO Assistant OUWB School of Medicine Residency: Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital & Care Network Fellowship: Pain Fellowship - University of Chicago Hospital, Department of Anesthesiology	David Spiteri, MD Assistant Professor OUWB School of Medicine Residency: Beaumont Hospital – Royal Oak
	Sherry Viola, MD Assistant Professor OUWB School of Medicine Residency: Beaumont Hospital – Royal Oak	Julie Ferris, MD Medical Director, Traumatic Brain Injury Assistant Professor, OUWB School of Medicine Residency: Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak Fellowship: Brain Injury Medicine, JFK Medical Center
	Edward Dabrowski, MD System Director, Pediatric Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Medical Director Grosse Pointe Neighborhood Club Professor OUWB School of Medicine Residency: Wayne State University Fellowship: Pediatric Neurology, Neuromuscular Disease/Electromyography – Children’s Hospital of Michigan	Gino Sessa, MD Medical Director, Neuroscience Rehab Unit Assistant Professor OUWB School of Medicine Residency: Beaumont Hospital – Royal Oak