He is past President of the New York Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, currently Associate Editor of Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation, on the staff at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, Treasurer of
National Zoster Foundation, and has a private practice in Manhattan.
Researchers in South Korea used the
National Health Insurance Service's «medical check - up» database to identify patients with newly diagnosed herpes
zoster — or shingles, stroke and heart attack using the relevant International Classification of Disease - 10 diagnostics codes.