New York City-based NYU Langone Health selected Jonas Sokolof, DO, to serve as director of Rusk Rehabilitation's newly established division of oncological rehabilitation.
Currently, Dr. Sokolof is co-chair of the lifestyle medicine counsel for the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and co-chair of the medical fitness working group for the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. He comes to NYU Langone from New York City-based Memorial Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center, where he served as an attending physician. He also served on the executive committee of the American College of Sports Medicine's Task Force on Exercise Oncology.
Dr. Sokolof will lead the new oncology division, which will work collaboratively with clinicians at NYU Langone's Perlmutter Cancer Center to provider individualized rehabilitative care for cancer patients.
Dr. Sokolof also plans to start an exercise and cancer research program at Rusk Rehabilitation.