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About the Sinai PMR Residency Faculty
Scott E. Brown, M.D.
Department Chairman
Scott E. Brown, M.D., is the chairman of the B. Stanley Cohen Department of Rehabilitation Medicine of Sinai Hospital. After a brief tenure at Sinai from 1990-1992, he returned to Baltimore in 1996 from Loma Linda University. Dr. Brown has served as associate chief of the department. He was appointed chairman in July 2001.
Mariam Keramati, D.O.
Residency Program Director
Mariam Keramati, D.O. holds a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from Western University, College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific. She completed her surgical internship at Easton Hospital in Easton, PA in 2012. She completed her residency training in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Sinai Hospital in 2015. She completed a spinal cord injury fellowship at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh, PA in 2016. She has held an attending position as an outpatient neuro-physiatrist at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, MD since 2016. She served as associate program director in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, MD in 2020. Dr. Keramati is an active member of the Association of Academic Physiatrists, Brain Injury Association of Maryland, and Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals. She participates in the Association of Academic Physiatrists Residency Training Directors Workshops on an annual basis.
Core Teaching Faculty
Sinai Outpatient Clinic
- Scott Brown, M.D. - Musculoskeletal, Pain Medicine, Performing Arts Medicine
- Eric Buchner, M.D. - Musculoskeletal, Pain Medicine, Electrodiagnostics
- Paige Harrison, D.O. - Musculoskeletal, Pain Medicine
- Mariam Keramati, D.O. - Neuro Rehabilitation, Mild Brain Injury, Spasticity
- Thomas Lee, M.D. - Interventional Pain Management
- Efrain Perez-Bravo, M.D. - Interventional Pain Medicine
- Lynn Staggs, M.D. - Musculoskeletal, Pain Medicine, Electrodiagnostics
Sinai Inpatient Rehabilitation
- Christine Wang, M.D. - Brain Injury Rehabilitation
- Anthony Manfredo, M.D. - Neuro Rehabilitation
- Ling-Ling, Cheng, M.D. - General Rehabilitation
- Frank Tanon, M.D. - Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Affiliated Teaching Faculty
Baltimore Division of the VA Maryland Healthcare System
- Idris Amin, M.D. - Sports Medicine, Musculoskeletal
- Richard Hoppe, M.D. - Wheelchair, Prosthetics, Musculoskeletal
- Jim Lai, M.D. - Musculoskeletal, Pain Medicine
Kennedy Krieger Institute
- William Ide, M.D. - Pediatric Rehabilitation
- Stacy Suskauer, M.D. - Pediatric Rehabilitation
Mount Washington Pediatric Hospital
- Stephen Nichols, M.D. - Pediatric Rehabilitation
University of Maryland Rehabilitation & Orthopedic Institute
- Idris Amin, M.D. - Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Peter Gorman, M.D. - Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation
- Melita Theyagaraj, M.D. - Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation
Union Memorial Hospital
- Andrew Tucker, M.D. - Sports Medicine
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
- Matthew Miller, M.D. - Pediatric Electrodiagnostics
Work Force Technology
- Mark Young, M.D. - Vocational Rehabilitation and Assistive Technology