Michael D. Leibowitz, M.D., C.M.D.

In practice 20+ years, Dr. Leibowitz is Board Certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. He is on the medical staff of New York hospitals and provides patient care services in nursing homes. He works on cases of Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Long Term Disability (LTD), Short Term Disability (STD), future medical care needs, and Workers' Compensation, and provides disability evaluation and management/disability medical file reviews, peer reviews, utilization reviews, second opinions, and Independent Medical Examinations (IME’s).

Services

Dr. Leibowitz provides litigation support services, consulting, Independent Medical Examinations (IME's), and expert witness testimony for attorneys, insurance carriers, medical malpractice insurance carriers, disability insurance carriers, URAC accredited companies, and life care planners.

Litigation Support Services

Dr. Leibowitz provides litigation support services, consulting, and expert witness testimony in cases of Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Long Term Disability (LTD), Short Term Disability (STD), future medical care needs, and Workers' Compensation, and provides disability evaluation and management/disability medical file reviews, peer reviews, utilization reviews, second opinions, and Independent Medical Examinations (IME’s).

Areas of Expertise

• Ankylosing Spondylitis
• Arthritis
• Artificial Limbs
• Back Pain
• Bedsores
• Brachial Plexus Injury
• Brain and Spinal Diseases
• Brain Injury
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
• Catastrophic Injury
• Chronic Pain
• Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
• Deep Venous Thrombosis
• Fibromyalgia
• Geriatrics
• Guillain-Barre Syndrome
• Head Injury
• Healthcare
• Herniated Disc

• Independent Medical Exams (IME)
• Life Care Planning
• Ligament Injuries
• Long Term Care
• Medical Malpractice
• Medical Records
• Medical Review
• Medical-Legal Issues
• Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
• Musculoskeletal Disorders
• Myopathy
• Neurological Diseases
• Nursing Home
• Osteoporosis
• Pain Management
• Parkinson's Disease
• Personal Injury
• Physiatry
• Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AAPM&R;)

• Physical Therapy
• Polio
• Pulmonary Embolism
• Quality Assurance
• Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD)
• Rehabilitation
• Repetitive Strain Disorder
• Scoliosis
• Speech Pathology
• Spinal Cord Injury
• Sport and Recreation Injuries
• Standard of Care
• Stroke
• Therapy and Rehabilitation
• Trauma
• Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
• Whiplash

Additional Expertise:

Orthopedic Injuries and Diseases

Profile

Dr. Leibowitz is Board Certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. He is also a Certified Medical Director, certification granted by the American Medical Directors Association. He is in active clinical practice for more than 20 years. He is on the medical staff of New York hospitals, and provides patient care at nursing homes. He has served on the faculty of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School, and concurrently served as an Attending Physician at Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation. He is a graduate of the Medical College of Wisconsin, and a graduate of the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residency program at Temple University Hospital. He also obtained post-graduate residency training in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Long Island Jewish Medical Center: an academic campus of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Leibowitz graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in Biology, Magna Cum Laude.

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All States

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