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Dr. Alan Guy
Dr. Alan Guy specializes in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Following completion of a General Surgery internship at Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow, NY, Dr. Guy completed his Physiatry residency training at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, where he served as Chief Resident in 2012-2013. Dr. Guy completed his undergraduate BA with Honors in Psychology at CUNY Brooklyn College and went on to get his MD at Sackler Faculty of Medicine in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Dr. Guy’s medical interests include Interventional Pain Management, Sports Medicine, Musculoskeletal Medicine, Electrodiagnostics, and Regenerative Injection Therapy (RIT). He was a 2013 scholarship recipient for the Fundamentals of Pain Management Interdisciplinary Primer Course at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Pain Society.
Dr. Guy is a member of the Association of Academic Physiatrists, American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, American Pain Society, and American Medical Association. When not working, Dr. Guy enjoys spending time with his family and four nieces and nephews. He is a model train enthusiast and enjoys working on his G-gauge garden railway. A Queens native, he is an avid baseball fan and loves to root for his hometown Mets.
Dr. Mahmud M. Ibrahim
Dr. Mahmud M. Ibrahim is the newest addition to Performance Pain & Sports Medicine. After graduating from NYU School of Medicine, he went on to complete his residency training in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. He then stayed on at Mount Sinai to complete a subspecialty in an ACGME-accredited fellowship that allowed him to subspecialize in Sports Medicine and Interventional Spine. Dr. Ibrahim is double-board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation as well as in Sports Medicine.
Dr. Ibrahim was trained to perform a number of different fluoroscopic guided interventionalpain management procedures. These include, but are not limited to: cervical, thoracic, lumbar epidurals, facet joint injections, sacroiliac joint injections, radiofrequency ablation, and spinal cord stimulation. He also uses ultrasound in order to diagnose and treat many common tendon, ligament, and nerve problems. His clinical interests include: musculoskeletal medicine, non-operative spine procedures, orthopedics, sports medicine, electrodiagnostic medicine, and regenerative therapy.
Dr. Ibrahim has published several articles on musculoskeletal medicine. He is also a contributing author in a textbook on how to perform ultrasound guided injections. Dr. Ibrahim has providedsideline coverage at football games, captained the medical tents at the NYC marathon, and was a ringside physician for the Golden Gloves Boxing tournament. Dr. Ibrahim’s goal is to restore function, reduce pain, and promote an active, healthy lifestyle using conservative measures whenever possible.