Cancer Rehabilitation

Jennifer Baima MD, Assistant Professor, Orthopedics and Physical Rehabilitation, University of Massachusetts/UMMC/ Worcester, MA and Ashish Khanna MDDr. Baima is board-certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation as well as Electrodiagnostic medicine. After residency training, she worked at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in outpatient musculoskeletal medicine and taught at Harvard Medical School for seven years before coming to the University of Massachusetts in 2013 to start a cancer rehabilitation program. She has written over twenty peer reviewed articles and over ten book chapters as well as the book, Sports Injuries. As full time academic clinical faculty, she teaches and lectures on diverse topics in musculoskeletal medicine and has performed three clinical trials in cancer rehabilitation. She lectures on prehabilitation nationally and internationally.Dr. Ashish Khanna completed his residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Kingsbrook Rehabilitation Institute in Brooklyn, NY, where he became interested in treating cancer patients early on. He completed a fellowship in Cancer Rehabilitation at Medstar Georgetown University Lombardi Cancer Center and the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, DC. He is now an Assistant Attending physician in Cancer Rehabilitation at Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation and an Assistant Professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. He specializes in the identification and treatment of neuromuscular, musculoskeletal and other survivorship issues resulting from cancer and cancer treatments and is pioneering the development of treatments for these conditions. Dr. Khanna is a regular consultant at several tumor boards in cancer centers throughout northern New Jersey. He is a tremendous advocate for ensuring that cancer survivors have access to the rehabilitation services needed to maximize their function and quality of life. Dr. Khanna has authored numerous book chapters and peer-reviewed scientific articles on the topic of cancer rehabilitation. Additionally, he speaks regularly at national and international meetings, and has been interviewed for several podcasts covering key topics in his field.