Chief of cancer rehabilitation
Miami Cancer Institute
Dr. Cristian graduated from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and completed a residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and its affiliates where he also served as Chief Resident. He holds a master's degree in health care management from Harvard University School of Public Health. He has served as Chief of Rehabilitation Medicine and Pain Medicine at the James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center in NY, Service Chief, Division of Rehabilitation Medicine Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Vice-Chairman and Residency Program Director at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center, Chairman of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Northwell Glen Cove Hospital and currently as Chief, Cancer Rehabilitation Miami Cancer Institute.
He has held academic appointments at several medical schools in the New York City including Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Weill Cornell Medical College and Hofstra School of Medicine and is currently Professor, Department of Translational Medicine at the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine at Florida International University. He has edited several textbooks in rehabilitation oncology including books on breast and gynecologic rehabilitation, lung cancer rehabilitation, central nervous system cancer rehabilitation, head, and neck cancer rehabilitation as well as several chapters and textbooks in various aspects of rehabilitation medicine geared to rehabilitation medicine physicians. He has also written books for the public on amputee care and spinal cord injury and has lectured widely at regional and national rehabilitation medicine scientific meetings and served as course director of the Miami Cancer Institute Rehabilitation Oncology Symposium for the past 4 years. His area of clinical interest is in the treatment of the toxicities associated with cancer and cancer treatment as well as loss of muscle mass in cancer.
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