Melita M. Theyagaraj, MBBS

EDUCATION

1986                                                   M.B.B.S, Madras Medical College

                                                             University of Madras, India

1991-1993                                       Graduate Student in the Department of Microbiology

                                                        Clemson University, South Carolina

POST GRADUATE EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Internship (Medical)

1986-1987                                      Madras Medical College and Government Hospital

                                                         Chennai, India

 Residency (Transitional Surgery)

1998-1999                                       Maimonides Medical Center

                                                          Brooklyn, New York

Residency  (Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation)

1999-2002                                     State University of New York at Stony Brook

                                                        School of Medicine

                                                        Long Island, New York                                                                                                                                                 

BIOSKETCH OF MELITA THEYAGARAJ, M.B.B.S

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology.

Melita M. Theyagaraj, M.B.B.S, is an assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Theyagaraj works and practices at the University of Maryland Orthopedics and Rehabilitation Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.

Dr. Theyagaraj completed her medical education at the Madras Medical College in India, followed by an internship in Transitional Surgery at Maimonides Medical Center, NY ,and a residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at State University of New York, Stonybrook. She is a physiatrist who is board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and has a fellowship in Spinal Cord Injury Medicine.

She is the Medical Director of the Multitrauma Unit and is the Chief of the Amputee Clinic at the University of Maryland Orthopedics and Rehabilitation Institute. Her clinical interests include amputee rehabilitation, musculoskeletal  rehabilitation, spasticity management and rehabilitation after trauma and spinal cord injury.

Amputee rehabilitation, Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation,

PUBLICATIONS

1. Gorman PH, Scott W, York H, Theyagaraj M, Price-Miller N, McQuaid J, Eyvazzadeh M, Ivey FM, Macko RF. Robotically Assisted Treadmill Exercise Training for Improving Peak Fitness in Chronic Motor Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury: A Randomized Controlled Trial. J Spinal Cord Medicine. 39(1):32-44 (2016). PMID: 25520035.