Specialty	Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine
Clinical Interests	Arthritis
	Back Problems
	Cervicalgia
	Electrodiagnostic Medicine
	Gait Disorders
	Spasticity
	Spinal Cord Injury
	Stroke
Gender	Male
E-mail	avniel.klein@mssm.edu
Education and Training	MD/PHD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
	Internship, Transitional, Sound Shore Medical Ctr/ New Rochelle Hospital Medical Ct
	Residency, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Mount Sinai Hospital

Dr. Avniel Shetreat-Klein works to restore function and prevent disability in those suffering from musculoskeletal and neurological disorders. Dr. Shetreat-Klein treats patients with a wide range of impairments including stroke, spinal cord injury, neuromuscular diseases, neck, back, and limb pain, arthritis, neuropathy, multiple sclerosis, and trauma. After a performing a detailed history and physical examination, Dr. Klein tailors an individualized, multidisciplinary plan of care, drawing upon pharmacological management, physical and occupational therapy, joint and trigger point injections, nutrition, and behavior modification. With these tools, Dr. Shetreat-Klein helps patients to return to their maximal functional state.

Dr. Shetreat-Klein is particularly interested in the use of electrodiagnostic techniques such as EMG and NCS to diagnose and evaluate pain, weakness and sensory loss in conditions such as radiculopathy, peripheral neuropathy, carpal tunnel syndrome, and brachial plexopathies. In addition to his outpatient practice, Dr. Shetreat-Klein is currently serving as an attending physician on the inpatient Spinal Cord Unit, and provides consultation services to patients throughout the Medical Center.

Dr. Avniel Shetreat-Klein graduated magna cum laude from Columbia College in 1994 and entered the MD/Ph.D. program at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Shetreat-Klein's graduate thesis explored mechanisms by which sensory input can directly affect centrally generated motor output. Explorations of these basic neural mechanisms have the potential to influence future research into therapies for neurological recovery. After receiving his MD and a Ph.D. in Neurophysiology, he continued on to residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Mount Sinai, where he served as Chief Resident in the final year of his training.

Education and Training	MD/PHD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
	Internship, Transitional, Sound Shore Medical Ctr/ New Rochelle Hospital Medical Ct
	Residency, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Mount Sinai Hospital
Board Certification	Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine

Specialty	Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine
Clinical Interests	Arthritis
	Back Problems
	Cervicalgia
	Electrodiagnostic Medicine
	Gait Disorders
	Spasticity
	Spinal Cord Injury
	Stroke
Board Certification	Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine

Betesh N, Shetreat-Klein A, Stein A, Ragnarsson K, Bryce T, editors. Common Problems in Rehabilitation Medicine: Spinal Cord Injury. New York, Humana Press;-In prep.

Tekmsyter G, Shetreat-Klein AN. Preventative Medicine in Adults with Neurologic Disability. In: Cristian A, editor. Management of Medical Problems in Adults with Neurologic Disability. New York, Demos Medical Publishing;-in press.

*Brown R, *Shetreat-Klein AN, Visco A, Herrera JE. Botox for Back Pain. In: Cooper G, editor. Current Applications of Botox. New York, Humana Press ;.

Shetreat-Klein AN, Cropper EC. Afferent-induced changes in feeding motor programs in Aplysia. Journal of Neurophysiology 2004; 92(4): 2312-2322.

Cropper EC, Evans CG, Jing J, Klein A, Proekt A, Romero A, Rosen SC. Regulation of afferent transmission in the feeding circuitry of Aplysia. Acta Biologica Hungarica 2004; 55(1-4): 211-220.

Klein AN. Sensory modification of the feeding motor program in Aplysia. Doctoral dissertation. Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Mt Sinai School of Medicine of New York University 2002;.

Klein AN, Weiss KR, Cropper EC. Glutamate is the fast excitatory neurotransmitter of small cardioactive peptide- containing Aplysia radula mechanoafferent neuron B21. Neuroscience Letters 2000; 289(1): 37-40.

Dai M, Klein A, Cohen B, Raphan T. Model-based study of the human cupular time constant. Journal of Vestibular Research 1999; 9(4).