Asif Jillani, MD

Dr. Asif Jillani is board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Pain Medicine through the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. An interventional physiatrist, he has experience in spine care, pain management, and rehabilitation medicine.

He earned his Doctor of Medicine degree from Saba University School of Medicine and completed a general surgery internship at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore. He completed his Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residency at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, where he served as Chief Resident and received the Resident of the Year award for 2013–2014. He subsequently completed a Pain Medicine Fellowship at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center in New York.

Dr. Jillani’s professional experience includes interventional physiatry at Orthopaedic Specialty Institute in Orange, California, and Interventional Spine & Sports Medicine in Connecticut. He also provided spinal cord injury rehabilitation coverage through the Boston VA Healthcare System and served as a Clinical Instructor at Tufts University School of Medicine.

His academic contributions include a coauthored publication on neuromuscular complications of cancer and a case report on an image-guided injection for joint pain associated with psoriatic arthropathy. He assisted with literature research for a textbook chapter on cervical radiculopathy and has presented on conservative back pain management, radiculopathy, spinal cord stimulation, and other rehabilitation and pain medicine topics.