1-5 October 2009 Sydney Convetion Centre

Jay P Shah is a senior staff physiatrist in the Rehabilitation Medicine at the NIH Clinical Center. He completed his residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at New York Medical College in Valhalla, N.Y. Dr Shah is a Diplomate of the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

His clinical research interests include the pathophysiology of myofascial pain and the integration of physical medicine techniques with promising complementary approaches in the management of neuromusculoskeletal pain and dysfunction. He is the Director of the Medical Rehabilitation training program for Rehabilitation Medicine. Dr Shah lectures extensively on mechanisms of chronic pain, myofascial pain, acupuncture techniques and other related topics. He and his co-investigators at the NIH are utilizing novel microanalytical techniques to study the unique biochemical milieu of myofascial trigger points. He is also an instructor in medical acupuncture courses at Harvard Medical School and New York Medical College.