Jonathan R. Moldover, M.D.
Jonathan R. Moldover, M.D., Chairman of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, is a leading authority in the field of rehabilitation medicine, with particular expertise in spine rehabilitation, spinal injection and pain management.
Dr. Moldover came to Beth Israel from the Kessler Institute in New Jersey, where he served as director of outreach and satellite operations. Before that, he served as an attending physician at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center from 1978-1981 and 1990-1995. He is board certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation.
Among his extensive writings are ones on the cardiovascular considerations in rehabilitating the disabled; cardiovascular and pulmonary rehabilitation and the role of medical staff attitudes in the rehabilitation of the aged patient.
While serving as an assistant attending at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, he directed the cardiopulmonary rehabilitation and the inpatient rehabilitation units. He has also served as the medical director of the George T. Walters Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, Allied Services for the Handicapped, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; medical director, then vice president of medical affairs at the Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Hospital in Allentown, Pennsylvania; and chief of rehabilitation medicine at Helen Hayes Hospital in West Haverstraw, New York.
In 1978, Dr. Moldover began teaching rehabilitation medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, passing his knowledge on to successive classes of physicians until 1995 when he took a teaching position at the university of Medicine and Dentistry at New Jersey.
A native of Brooklyn, Dr. Moldover earned his undergraduate degree from Trinity College and his medical degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. He then took part in an internal medicine training program at the University of Rochester Associated Hospitals before doing his residency in rehabilitation medicine at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center from 1976 to 1978, ending as chief resident. He later served as a research fellow in the department of rehabilitation medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons.