Free Lecture on Back Pain, Wednesday, November 20

Nov 20, 2013

Paul A. Pipia, MD, chief of physical medicine and rehabilitation in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, will deliver at free lecture on “Back Pain: Causes, Prevention, and Treatment Options,” on Wednesday, November 20, 2013, from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm.

The location is SUNY Downstate’s Health Science Education Building, Lecture Hall 1A, 395 Lenox Road, Brooklyn, New York 11203.

Dr. Pipia is also assistant professor of physiatry and is featured in New York magazine’s Best Doctors 2013 issue and Castle Connolly Top Doctors, New York Metro Area.

Refreshments will be served. For more information, please call 718-270-3739. The lecture is sponsored by SUNY Downstate’s Center for Community Health Promotion and Wellness.

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About SUNY Downstate Medical Center

SUNY Downstate Medical Center, founded in 1860, was the first medical school in the United States to bring teaching out of the lecture hall and to the patient’s bedside. A center of innovation and excellence in research and clinical service delivery, SUNY Downstate Medical Center comprises a College of Medicine, College of Nursing, School of Health Professions, a School of Graduate Studies, School of Public Health, University Hospital of Brooklyn, and a multifaceted biotechnology initiative including the Downstate Biotechnology Incubator and BioBAT for early-stage and more mature companies, respectively.

SUNY Downstate ranks twelfth nationally in the number of alumni who are on the faculty of American medical schools. More physicians practicing in New York City have graduated from SUNY Downstate than from any other medical school.