Meet Our Speaker

Christopher J. Visco, MD, RMSK

Ursula Corning Associate Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine

Vice Chair, Department of Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine

Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Director of Residency Training in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Associate Director of Fellowship Training in Sports Medicine

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia and Cornell

Christopher J. Visco, MD, FAAPMR, RMSK is an Assistant Professor at Columbia University Medical Center’s Department of Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine, an Assistant Attending Physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Sports Medicine Fellowship Director, and Associate Residency Program Director. He specializes in treating patients with sports and spine injuries.

He completed his residency in PM&R at Kessler/UMDNJ and his Spine and Sports Fellowship at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago/Northwestern University. His main areas of interest are in sports and musculoskeletal medicine, applications of diagnostic and interventional musculoskeletal ultrasound, preventative and regenerative musculoskeletal care, and medical education. He is board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine, and is a registered musculoskeletal sonographer.

He is an award-winning teacher, has been an invited lecturer internationally, edited a textbook, is a peer-reviewer for multiple journals and has been a regional, national and international course director multiple times.