Doctors: Ira H. Kirschenbaum, MD

Dr. Kirschenbaum's Education

Dr. Kirschenbaum's Education
Joint Replacement Fellowship
Orthopaedic Residency
Medical Degree
Undergraduate Degree
Elementary to Far Rockaway High School
YMCA Nursery School

Joint Replacement Fellowship

The Rothman Institute at Jefferson Hospital and originally housed at Pennsylvania Hospital, has long been regarded one of the premier, world-class joint replacement training and treatment centers in the world. For more than a quarter of a century, Richard H. Rothman, MD, PhD, has worked towards realizing a vision of an institute dedicated to the treatment of skeletal diseases and characterized by quality, compassion and the proper training of select Orthopaedic Surgeons.

For a full year from 1990-1991, Dr. Kirschenbaum trained directly under Dr. Rothman and his faculty for a full year. During that year the Institute performed over 1500 hip and knee replacements. As Dr. Rothman’s fellow Dr. Kirschenbaum not only honed surgical skills learned in his previous four year residency but was trained in the complete delivery of joint replacement care with the goal of superior patient outcomes.

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Orthopaedic Residency

Orthopaedic Residency training is a five year experience in the complete diagnostic and surgical training of a select group of medical students who are chosen into these competitive programs.

Dr. Kirschenbaum’s five year Orthopaedic Residency included training in all areas of Orthopaedic Surgery. The program at Montefiore Medical Center Campus and Jacobi Hospital Trauma Center Campus emphasized high volume clinical exposure. Affiliated with the prestigious Albert Einstein College of Medicine the dual campus program allowed for the development of expertise in elective joint reconstructive surgery, arthroscopy, Orthopaedic trauma, and multiple other subspecialties. He also completed a one year fellowship in basic science research on the growth and aging of cartilage in joints.

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Medical Degree

Dr. Kirschenbaum attended the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, a constituent college of Yeshiva University from 1979 to graduation in 1984. The school was established in 1955. Its founders envisioned an institution whose graduates would become notable for their extraordinary skills as physicians, biomedical researchers and medical educators. It did not take long for the vision to become reality. The success of the medical school’s programs derives in large measure from a constant nurturing of interdisciplinary collaboration and interaction. Traditional barriers between departments and among specialists at work in separate physical facilities have been overcome through the creation of centers and institutes. It is an environment that genuinely fosters collaboration between basic and clinical investigators, inspires creativity and facilitates the path of potential new treatment methods from laboratory to bedside.

Einstein is the affiliated medical school for seven of the 16 largest hospitals in New York and runs the largest postgraduate medical training program in the United States, offering some 156 residency programs to more than 2,600 physicians in training. The College is also widely known for its socially conscious approach to medicine. During the 1970s and 1980s, it pioneered the development of medical ethics as an accepted academic discipline in medical school curricula.

The College maintains its special character as a community in which students, faculty and administrators share — on a personal as well as professional basis — the challenges of learning, teaching, providing clinical care to a diverse urban population, managing health care delivery systems and exploring the newest vistas of biomedical research.

Dr. Kirschenbaum graduated Magna Cum Laude with Honors from Brown University in 1979 with a Bachelors of Science majoring in an Independent Study Program related to Neuroscience entitled Sciences of the Mind and the Body. He had a secondary concentration in Political Science and Philosophy.

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Undergraduate Degree

Founded in 1764, Brown University was the third college in New England and the seventh in America — and the only one that welcomed students of all religious persuasions.

A commitment to diversity and intellectual freedom remains a hallmark of the University today. Brown is internationally known for its unique undergraduate curriculum, implemented in 1969, that provides bright, self-motivated students the opportunity to become architects of their educational experience.

The mission of Brown University is to serve the community, the nation, and the world by discovering, communicating, and preserving knowledge and understanding in a spirit of free inquiry, and by educating and preparing students to discharge the offices of life with usefulness and reputation. This is done through a partnership of students and teachers in a unified community known as a university-college.

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Far Rockaway Elementary to High School

Before this there was JHS 180, PS 197, and PS 39, for the record.

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YMCA Nursery School

I must have done well with building blocks and did not run with scissors.

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