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Anusha Lekshminarayanan, M.D., is a physiatrist who specializes in sports medicine. She completed her residency at New York Medical College and Metropolitan Hospital Center in New York City, where she served as the senior chief resident, and her sports medicine fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, NY.
She served as associate program director of the Westchester Medical Center Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency Program, leading the residents' didactics curriculum, ultrasound education, and spring anatomy lab sessions.
She has served on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of PM&R since 2023. She has also served as a reviewer for the British Journal of Sports Medicine. She serves as an abstract reviewer for the annual Physiatry, American Medical Society for Sports Medicine, and The American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation conferences. Since 2021, she has been an integral part of the New York Society Of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation’s Question Bank initiative.
She is the recipient of multiple awards during her training years, including the Award for Excellence in Academics, the Catherine Hinterbuchner Award, and the Joji Sakuma, MD, Memorial Award, and has been nominated as a WMC Care Champion.
Education
- Fellowship, Non-operative Sports Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center
- Residency, Rehabilitation Medicine, New York Medical College/Metropolitan Hospital Center
- M.D., SBKS Medical Institute and Research Center
Areas of Expertise
- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Sports Medicine
Publications
- Valasek A, Lekshminarayanan A. Dr David Sabgir and Walk with a Doc-every step counts. Br J Sports Med. 2025 Feb 6;59(4):283-284. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2024-108983. PubMed PMID: 39797644.
- Lekshminarayanan A, Valasek A. Dr Diamond plays his part to save the heart!. Br J Sports Med. 2025 Feb 6;59(4):285-286. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2024-109134. PubMed PMID: 39797643.
- Ploeg AN, Courseault J, Lekshminarayanan A. Twenty-Three-Year-Old Patient With Chronic Pain and Fainting Spells-A Clinical Vignette. Am J Phys Med Rehabil. 2024 Jul 1;103(7):e82-e85. doi: 10.1097/PHM.0000000000002416. Epub 2024 Jan 8. PubMed PMID: 38261793.
- Aboulhosn P, Ryu A, Shafieesabet A, Lekshminarayanan A, Husain S, O'Connor K, D'Souza S, O'Neill S, Altschuler EL. Partial Balint's syndrome and left homonymous hemianopsia presenting after resection of a right occipito-parietal glioblastoma. Neurocase. 2022 Dec;28(6):483-487. doi: 10.1080/13554794.2023.2176778. Epub 2023 Feb 15. PubMed PMID: 36794351.
- Jiang C, Lekshminarayanan A, Balkaya I, Uddin A, Bavishi S, Altschuler E. Treatment of Central Vertigo With Low Dose Olanzapine: Report of Two Cases. Cureus. 2022 Feb;14(2):e22647. doi: 10.7759/cureus.22647. eCollection 2022 Feb. PubMed PMID: 35237497; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8882308.
- Patel UK, Dave M, Lekshminarayanan A, Malik P, DeMasi M, Chandramohan S, Pillai S, Tirupathi R, Shah S, Jani VB, Dhamoon MS. Risk Factors and Incidence of Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Comparative Study Between Young Adults and Older Adults. Cureus. 2021 Apr 24;13(4):e14670. doi: 10.7759/cureus.14670. PubMed PMID: 34055518; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8148619.
- Magracia CM, Rascati L, Lekshminarayanan A, Fernandez JA, Balkaya IY, Gerguis W, Altschuler EL. Tele-Transfer Training. Am J Phys Med Rehabil. 2020 Nov;99(11):988. doi: 10.1097/PHM.0000000000001560. PubMed PMID: 32975919.
Memberships and Affiliations
- Association of Academic Physiatrists
- American Medical Society for Sports Medicine
