RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine

Dr. Sofiya Prilik and Dr. Greg Sweeney: Cardiac Rehabilitation: Strategies to Improve Access, Part 1

Dr. Sofiya Prilik is Clinical Director of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Transplant Rehabilitation and Clinical Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the NYU Rusk Rehabilitation department. Dr. Greg Sweeney is a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Part 1 The discussion included the following topics: nature of a webinar to be offered on June 12 at NYU on the topic of cardiac rehabilitation; measuring whether the webinar achieves its objectives; outcomes or activities attendees can be expected to undertake afterward; kinds of health conditions and problems that qualify patients to be eligible to participate in cardiac rehabilitation; role played by disparities in obtaining health care; and kinds of patients that benefit most from cardiac rehabilitation.

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