Dr. Michael A. Palmer, NU ’76 is a physician with a specialty in physiatry (physical, sports and rehabilitation medicine), Disability Analytics and is a certified Independent Medical Examiner and currently a Partner of the RecoveryZone. His medical practice provides a holistic approach to orthopedic and musculoskeletal conditions, combining a team of specialists with the goal of alternative treatments for high school, college and professional athletes and orthopedic and rehabilitation issues of the weekend warriors. He is on staff of the University of Pennsylvania Health care systems and the Princeton Medical Center. Dr. Palmer has also practiced orthopedics and sports medicine in the past. He served 28 years as an Aerospace medicine physician and was Chief of aerospace medicine with the distinction of being a senior flight surgeon in the Air Force Reserves and while on active duty during the gulf war, afghanistan and Iraq conflicts. He retired with the rank of Lt Col.in 2017
Dr. Palmer received his bachelor’s degree in education for secondary sciences (with a concentration in biology, chemistry, and physics) from Norwich in 1976. As a student in the Corps of Cadets, he played basketball, soccer and other intramural sports and was also a member of WNUB Radio, the Outing Club, and the Rugby Club as well as being featured in Who’s Who. He was a recipient of an Air Force ROTC scholarship during his undergraduate training.
Later, Dr. Palmer obtained a master’s degree in Italian language and literature at the University of Perugia in the region of Umbria and played professional basketball on the Island of Sardinia and Rome. While living in Italy, he later enrolled at the University of Rome School of Medicine and Dentistry where he completed his medical education, graduating with honors and serving four years as an intern and resident in traumatology and orthopedics. Upon his return to the United States, .
Dr. Palmer completed a residency in internal medicine at New York Infirmary Beekman Hospital/New York University in 1991 where he was appointed chief medical resident in his third year. He then embarked on a second residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation, which he completed in 1994 at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He completed a sports and spine medicine fellowship at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York where he was a clinical instructor of rehabilitation medicine and involved in the development of many protocols for postoperative rehabilitation for anterior cruciate ligament, meniscal injuries, total knee replacement, and patellofemoral pain syndrome. He was also involved in the treatment of college athletes and professional athletes from the New York Knicks and New York Rangers.
He is a graduate of the UCLA School of Medicine, School of Acupuncture Medicine. Dr. Palmer has a special interest in sports medicine rehabilitation, myofascial pain syndromes, fibromyalgia, non- operative spine care, electrodiagnostic neurophysiology including EMG’s and intraoperative somatosensory evoked potentials, selective lumbar and cervical injections, and alternative medicine for the treatment of chronic myofascial pain syndromes. Dr. Palmer also performs disability and independent medical examinations. He is board certified by the American Academy of Pain Management, the American Board of Independent Medical Examiners, and the American Board of Disability Analysts. He has also completed Master certificates from the University of Chicago in healthcare informatics, genetic engineering and CRISPR technology from Harvard and Healthcare Management from Yale School of Management.
Dr. Palmer is married to Tammy Eng-Palmer. The Palmers have two sons and one daughter: Mackenzie “Mack”, Dylan Coltrane, and Sydney Micaela.
1972–76 BS Norwich University (Education- Biology, Chemistry)
1976–77 M.A. University of Perugia per straneri (Italian History, Language)
1977–83 M.D. University of Rome School of Medicine and Dentistry
2019 Masters Certificate, University of Chicago: Health Informatics
2019–2020 Masters Certificate, Harvard University CRISPR: Gene editing application 7/1/2020–12/15/2020 Master Certificate, Yale School of Management: Health Care Management
1984–85 Intern in Medicine and Surgery, University of Rome Polyclinic
1985–88 Fellow in Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University of Rome School of Medicine 1988–89 First Year Resident in Medicine, New York University Downtown Hospital, New York, NY
1989–90 Second Year Resident in Medicine, New York University Downtown Hospital, New York, New York
1990–91 Chief Medical Resident in Medicine, New York University Downtown Hospital, New York, New York
1991–94 Resident in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
1997 International Spinal Injection Society; Training workshop for Lumbar Spinal
Injections, Stanford University School of Medicine
1997 Training Workshop for Discograms and Cervical Spine Injections–Stanford
University School of Medicine
2000 American College of Sports Medicine Team Physician Certification
2001 Training in Techniques for Percutaneous Electrothermal Therapy
2006 Medtronic Certification for performing pre-implantation trials for the Dorsal Column Neuro stimulation
8/94-9/95 Sports Medicine Non-Operative Spine care, Pain Management
Beth Israel Hospital Dept. of Rehabilitation Medicine, Electrodiagnostics and
Orthopaedics; Dr. Robert Gotlin and Insall Scott Kelly Orthopaedics Institute;
8/1/94-7/30/95
6/96-12/96 Acupuncture Medicine:
1996University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine, School of
Acupuncture Medicine. Acupuncture for Medical Physicians
Princeton Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Associates
Attending:
Dept. of Rehabilitation Medicine, Dept. of Neurophysiology and Spinal Cord Intraoperative Monitoring; the Medical Center of Princeton, Princeton, New Jersey
1972–76 Air Force ROTC/Commission USAF
1976–80 Active Duty USAF in Italy-NATO Special Forces Aviation Division
1989 USAF Reserves, Westover AFB Flight Surgeon
1990 Completion of the Aeronautical School Aerospace Medicine at Brooks Air Force Base San Antonio TX
Primary course Board certification in aerospace medicine
1990 Completion of Water Survival School USAF/Navy Seal Training, Key West Florida 1992 Elected to Aerospace Medicine Council at Westover Air Force Base, Northeast Air Station
1992 Executive Chairman of the Pharmacy Committee, USAF 439th AMC Hospital
1992 Member of the Infectious Disease Control Committee for Westover Air Force Base 1993 Promotion to rank of Major
1995 Director of Tri-service Emergency medical Response Team Training Program;
Northeast School, Westover Air Reserve Base
1997 Appointed Chief of Aerospace Medicine and Occupational Medicine, Westover Air Reserve Base, 439th Aeromedical Mobility Squadron
1997 Appointed Instructor of Military Trauma Medicine: Top Star; School of Advance
Trauma USAF Medical Center; Travis AFB, Wilford Hall Medical Center, Lackland
AFB
1998 Completion of S.E.R.E. training, USAF San Antonio Texas
2001 Mobilized to Active Military Duty in support of Operation Enduring Freedom
2002 Appointed commander of the 439th Aeromedical Squadron B Unit training
assembly, Westover ARB, Massachusetts.
2002 Promotion Select to rank of Lieutenant Colonel
2002 Promoted to Senior Flight Surgeon
2002 Mobilized to Active Military Duty in Support of Operation Iraqi Freedom
2002 Deactivated from Active duty returned to reserve status
2008 Reassigned to Flight Medicine Department McGuire AFB and 47TH Air Refueling Wing
2009 Promoted to Chief Command Flight surgeon
2016 Retired from the USAFR 2016 Lt. Col
1991–94 Instructor of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
1994–1995 Instructor of Rehabilitation Medicine and Pain Management Albert Einstein College of Medicine
1996–present Consultant Sports Medicine; the College of New Jersey
1997–present Pre-Medical Advisor/ preceptor; Princeton University
1997–present School physician at Princeton High School sponsoring the student athletic trainer program
1990–91 Chief Medical Resident NYI-BDH New York University Downtown Hospital
1990–91 Patient Service System Committee President of NYC residents Association
1990–91 Emergency Room Physician, Greenville Hospital, Jersey City, New Jersey
1991–94 West Jersey Hospital Systems: Emergency Room Physician
1995 Associate Medical Staff, the Dept. of Rehabilitation Medicine, Dept. of
Neurophysiology the Medical Center at Princeton
1997 Medical advisory committee-Home care services The Medical Center at Princeton Board
Certified Diplomate of the American Academy of Pain Management
Certified American Board of Independent Medical Examiners
Certified American College of Sports Medicine: Team Physician Certification
Certified USAF School of Aerospace Medicine in Aerospace Medicine 12/1990 School of Occupational Medicine
ECFMG Board Certification
BLS certification
ACLS certification
1984 Honors Graduate, University of Rome, School of Medicine and Dentistry
1997 Air Force Medal of Commendation
2002 Air Force Medal of Meritorious Service
2007 2nd Air Force Medal of Meritorious Service
Member of the Board of Trustees- Norwich University
Academic Affairs committee and Student affairs committee
Director of Safety activities Beth Israel Hospital North; Dept. of Rehabilitation Medicine
Instruction of medical students and interns, NYU School of Medicine
Instruction to medical students and residents at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Clinic supervisor to rehabilitation residents at Mount Sinai Medical Center
Preceptor for Pre-Professional Health Services, Princeton University
Instructor in Sports Medicine, the College of New Jersey
Clinical Preceptor; Pfizer-Searle Pharmaceutical Co.
Instructor of Military Trauma Medicine, Top Star Wilford Hall, Texas, USAF, Travis AFB Medical Center
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