Dr. Koto Ishida: Neurorehab, part 3

RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine

Dr. Koto Ishida is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. She also serves as Medical Director of the Stroke Program at NYU Langone Health and Director of Clinical Affairs at the Center for Stroke and Neurovascular Diseases. She is Board-certified both in vascular neurology and neurology by the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology. Her medical degree is from the University of Rochester. She completed her residency in neurology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania where she had a fellowship in vascular neurology. Dr. Ishida has her name on 70 publications in the professional literature.

The following topics were discussed in Part 3: Patient-Reported Outcome Measures employed in vascular technology at NYU and their utility; the extent to which patients who experienced a stroke are suitable candidates for becoming competent self-managers so that they can be effective in self-monitoring, recognizing and reporting symptoms, and treating side effects, and efforts undertaken at NYU to foster self-management by patients; if patients are treated at a presenting hospital, whether teleneurology is involved in providing care; and assessing the value of self-wearable devices for diagnostic purposes and their future prospects for achieving better health care outcomes?