Physician Biography
Attending Physician, TIRR Memorial Hermann
Clinical Chief of the Spinal Cord Injury Program
Medical Director of Respiratory Medicine
Jeffrey Berliner, D.O., an assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the UT Medical School, joins the TIRR team following completion of a fellowship in Spinal Cord Injury Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Dr. Berliner received his medical degree at Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in 2004 and completed his residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine in New York City. In 2009, Dr. Berliner completed his fellowship in Spinal Cord Injury from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX.
In addition to his clinical activities, Dr. Berliner will assist William H. Donovan, M.D., in directing TIRR’s Spinal Cord Injury Program, which has been a National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research-funded Model System for spinal cord rehabilitation for more than three decades. He will also participate in research activities as a co-investigator of the Spinal Cord Injury Robotic Study, supported by TIRR Foundation’s Mission Connect, and the NeuroRecovery Network project funded by the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation. He is a member of the Association of Academic Physiatrists, the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and the American Osteopathic Association. Dr. Berliner is on the Board of the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Review Course at TIRR and part of the University of Texas Medical School at Houston Academic Counsel.
Services Provided by Dr. BerlinerDr. Berliner’s clinical responsibilities include outpatient management of persons who have sustained spinal cord injuries.
His clinical services include care in the following areas:- Comprehensive assessment of patients with spinal cord injury
- Neurogenic bladder management
- Neurogenic bowel management
- Pressure ulcers assessment and management
- Spasticity management
- Neuropathic pain management
- Trigger point injections
- Myofascial pain management
- Osteopathic manipulation
- Coordination of services needed for spinal cord injured patients