NEW LEADER OF REHABILITATION MEDICINE PROGRAM AT NYMC

Robert D. Holland, M.D., M.H.A., has been appointed the Catherine and Vladislav P. Hinterbuchner professor and chair of rehabilitation medicine at New York Medical College (NYMC) and director of rehabilitation medicine at NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan, a major clinical affiliate of NYMC. Holland, an Ossining resident, most recently served as medical director of Mount Sinai’s Amsterdam Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center in Manhattan. He will assume his new role on Nov. 27.
Previously, he served as the medical director of the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program of the Rockland County Department of Social Services, in Pomona, New York. Prior to that, he held positions as chief medical officer of the Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Brooklyn; senior medical director of OrthoNet LLC, in White Plains; and director of musculoskeletal rehabilitation and attending physician at Helen Hayes Hospital in West Haverstraw, New York. He has also been an attending physician at Westchester Medical Center and Staten Island University Hospital. He previously held an academic appointment as assistant professor of clinical rehabilitation at Columbia University.
Holland also serves as a flight surgeon with the U.S. Air Force Air National Guard, 105th Medical Group. Board-certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation, he holds a master’s degree in health-care administration from Columbia University, completed an internship at St. Barnabas Medical Center in New Jersey and a residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at Boston Medical Center.
The Hinterbuchner Chair was gifted in 2017 by the estate of Catherine Hinterbuchner, M.D., who had the distinction of being both the first female chair of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at NYMC and the college’s first residency program director in the specialty, as well as Metropolitan’s first chief of rehabilitation medicine.