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Abir Naguib, MD, CAQSM, FAAPMR, RMSK

Specialties:

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Sports Medicine, Electrodiagnostics, and Orthopedic Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Outpatient Physician

Accepting new patients.

Dr. Naguib is a board certified specialist in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Sports Medicine and Electrodiagnostic Medicine. She is also a registered musculoskeletal sonographer and uses ultrasound to diagnose and treat musculoskeletal conditions. She completed her residency at Montefiore/Albert Einstein College of Medicine and received the Elkins award for achieving the highest score nation-wide on the Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation board examination. She completed a subspecialty fellowship in Sports Medicine. 

Dr Naguib treats various musculoskeletal problems in patients of different activity levels ranging from inactive individuals and weekend warriors to athletes and helps them get back to their activities and sports. She believes in taking a holistic approach, treating the body as a whole and working on an individualized treatment plan for each patient that addresses their goals. 

Dr Naguib is an assistant professor of rehabilitation medicine at Montefiore/Albert Einstein College of Medicine and also serves as the Director of the Sports Medicine Fellowship Program at Burke Rehabilitation. She authored multiple peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on musculoskeletal conditions and presented both nationally and internationally. She has special interests in musculoskeletal ultrasound, ultrasound guided injections and regenerative medicine.

She is a member of numerous professional associations including the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, the Academic Association of Physiatry, the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine, the New York Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and the Mediterranean Forum of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine.

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Gender:

Female

Languages:

Arabic, English, and French

Areas of Interest

Sports medicine, musculoskeletal medicine, musculoskeletal ultrasound and ultrasound guided procedures, regenerative medicine.

Education

The University of Alexandria Montefiore/Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Fellowship

University of Mississippi Medical Center, Primary care sports medicine

Publications

  1. Naguib AH, Helal AH, Samy M, Hossam N. Hand osteoarthritis: correlation between functional evaluation, imaging and disease activity. The Egyptian Rheumatologist 2009;31:165-71.
  2. Naguib AH, Achmawi GA, Kozo H, Fatatry A. The study of vestibular function in patients with multiple sclerosis. 17th European Congress of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, 2010 May:46;2:72-5.
  3. Naguib AH, Elsawy N, Aboulenein F, Hossam N. The relation between serum visfatin levels and cardiovascular involvement in rheumatoid arthritis. Alex J Med 2011;47:117-24.
  4. Naguib AH, Samy M, Hossam N, Soliman E, Hamimi A, Semaya A. The relationship between osteoarthritis of the hands, bone mineral density and bone turnover markers. Alex J Med 2011;47:149-55.
  5. Naguib AH, Mohasseb D, Sultan H, Hamimi A, Fawzy M. Hand osteoarthritis: Clinical and Imaging Study. Alex J Med 2011;47:237-42.
  6. Abdel-latif G, Naguib A. The role of the blink reflex in the early detection of synkinesis in patients with acute Bell’s palsy. Egy Rheum & Rehab 2011;38(4). AND 2011 EFNS European Journal of Neurology 18 (Suppl. 2), 66–343
  7. Soliman E, El-tantawy G, Matrawy K, Aldawoudy A, Naguib A. Local infliximab injection of sacroiliac joints in early axial spondyloarthropathies: Impact on parameters of disease activity. Modern Rheumatology, 2015;25(3):421-426. AND Ann Rheum Dis 2012;71(Suppl3):245
  8. Elsawy N, Soliman I, Nouh M, Naguib A. Hand function in systemic sclerosis: A clinical and ultrasonographic study. The Egyptian Rheumatologist. 2012;34:167-78. AND Ann Rheum Dis 2013;72(Suppl3).
  9. Koryem HK , Wanas MA, Rizk MM, Kotb HT, Naguib AH , El Shafei MM, Abdel Naby HM. Evaluation of early changes of cartilage biomarkers following arthroscopic meniscectomy in young Egyptian adults. Alex J Med 2014.
  10. Co-authored a section in “PM&R Knowledge Now”: “The electrodiagnostic consultation and report”. (http://me.aapmr.org/kn/article.html?id=304)
  11. Authored two chapters in: (Musculoskeletal Pain Conditions: A Comprehensive Guide).
    • Editors: Stuart B. Kahn, Rachel Yinfei Xu.
    • Rotator cuff syndrome.
    • Quadriceps and patellar tendinopathy.
  12. Lee SW, Patel J, Van Dien C, Napatkamon A, Naguib A, Emam M, Kim S. The Transverse Infrapatellar View: A New Ultrasonographic Technique to Measure Distal Femoral Cartilage Thickness. (published online 8/26/2019 in Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine). (https://doi.org/10.1002/jum.15122).

Presentations

  • Annual stroke symposium, Rochester Regional Health (2022): Shoulder pain in stroke patients.
  • Annual Orthopedic Conference, Creighton University (2018): Pediatric and adolescent injuries in sports.
  • 26th AMSSM annual meeting, San Diego (2017): A wasp sting in a cross country runner.
  • 26th AMSSM annual meeting, San Diego (2017): Evaluation of a new technique to measure femoral articular cartilage thickness using infrapatellar ultrasonographic imaging.
  • University of Mississippi Orthopedic conference (2016): Dermatologic infections in sports.
  • University of Mississippi Orthopedic conference (2016): Heat illness in sports.
  • Prehabilitation of joint replacement, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY (2015).
  • Far-field potentials, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY (2015).
  • 7th European Congress of Sports Medicine in Salzburg, Austria (2011): Role of rehabilitation in patients with reconstructed anterior cruciate ligaments: Biomechanical and electrophysiological study.
  • 15th European Federation of Neurological Societies in Budapest, Hungary (2011): The role of the blink reflex in the early detection of synkinesis in patients with acute Bell’s palsy.
  • 17th European Congress of Physical & Rehabilitation Medicine, Venice, Italy (2010): The study of vestibular function in patients with multiple sclerosis.

Professional & Academic Appointments

Associate professor at the University of Alexandria

Clinical assistant professor at Creighton University

Assistant professor at Montefiore/Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Director of the sports medicine fellowship program at Burke