North Oaks Rehabilitation Hospital Appoints New Medical Director

The North Oaks Rehabilitation Hospital Board of Managers announces its appointment of Physiatrist Rishi Pathak, MD, as medical director and chief-of-staff.

As medical director, Pathak will provide guidance and leadership to the staff responsible for the hospital’s comprehensive medical rehabilitation services offered to maximize the functional independence and quality of life for each patient.

As chief of staff, he will lead the hospital’s medical staff and serve as a liaison between North Oaks Rehabilitation Hospital’s providers, administration, board of managers, and the North Oaks Health System Board of Commissioners.

Pathak joined the North Oaks medical staff in the fall of 2018 as a provider with North Oaks Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Clinic, in Hammond.

He came to North Oaks from Johns Hopkins Hospital at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, where he was educated as a fellow in spinal cord injury medicine. He earned a medical degree from St. Matthew’s University School of Medicine in the Cayman Islands on Grand Cayman. He then completed an internship in general surgery through Exempla St. Joseph’s in Denver, Col., and a residency through Wayne State University, located in Detroit Medical Center at the Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan.

North Oaks Rehabilitation Hospital is the only facility of its kind in a seven-parish area accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF). It is also home to one of only five CARF-accredited stroke specialty programs in Louisiana.

 

09/10/2019