Mooyeon Oh-Park

Mooyeon Oh-Park, MD, MS, is Chief Medical Officer, Senior Vice President, Burke Rehabilitation Hospital, Professor, Rehabilitation Medicine and Professor, Neurology at Montefiore Einstein. Her clinical focus centers on geriatric rehabilitation from the care of master athletes to older adults with disability, electrodiagnosis and sports medicine.

After earning her Doctor of Medicine at Seoul National University College of Medicine in Seoul, South Korea, in 1989, Dr. Oh-Park completed a rotational internship in 1990 and a physical medicine and rehabilitation residency in 1991 at Seoul National University Hospital. She then came to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center to complete a postdoctoral research fellowship in biochemical immunogenetics in 1993. Following this, Dr. Oh-Park completed an internal medicine internship at Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center in 1994 before completing an additional physical medicine and rehabilitation residency at Montefiore in 1997. In 2009, Dr. Oh-Park earned her Master of Science at Einstein. She will graduate with her Master in Health Care Management from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2023.

Dr. Oh-Park’s research interests include the prevention and intervention of delirium and frailty, technology and innovation in healthcare, and preservation of mobility and function of older adults in the community. She also has expertise in healthcare management, population health and creating value-based care. Dr. Oh-Park has been principal investigator, site principal investigator and co-investigator on a number of funded research projects. Her work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and other scientific publications and she has given national and international presentations. She is also the Editor-in-Chief for the Current Report on Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, a reviewer for journals such as the American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Gait and Posture, and she sits on the editorial boards of several prestigious journals, such as the American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Annals of Rehabilitation Medicine and Annals of Geriatric Research & Medicine.

Dr. Oh-Park is board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Electrodiagnostic Medicine, Sports Medicine and Neuromuscular Medicine. She is also certified by the American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography (ARDMS). Dr. Oh-Park has won many awards for her work, including Best Mentor of the Year from Burke Rehabilitation Hospital in 2019, Doctor of Distinction, Exceptional Leadership Category from Westchester Business Council in 2020, Notable Women in Healthcare by Crain's New York Business in 2018, 2019 and 2021, and Outstanding Service Award from the Association of Academic Physiatrists in 2023.

The clinical area of interest of Dr. Mooyeon Oh-Park includes geriatric rehabilitation from the care of master athletes to older adults with disability, electrodiagnosis, and sports medicine. The clinical area of interest of Dr. Mooyeon Oh-Park includes geriatric rehabilitation from the care of master athletes to older adults with disability, electrodiagnosis, and sports medicine.

Research interest includes prevention and intervention of delirium, frailty, technology and innovation in healthcare, and preservation of mobility and function of older adults in the community. She also has expertise in healthcare management, population health, and creating value-based care.