Bio of Loren M. Fishman, MD, B.Phil.,(oxon.)
Dr. Fishman is Assistant Clinical Professor of Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine at Columbia University Medical School.
- He is winner of the prestigious Yoga Peeth Patanjali University prize for medical applications of yoga in Haridwar, India.
- Has been part of and is now pursuing NIH grants on the application of yoga to medical conditions.
- Received a B. Phil. with honors in Philosophy from Christ Church, Oxford.
His practice specializes in medical application of yoga practice and electromyography. He has combined them and other scientific resources in his research to demonstrate the effectiveness of yoga in conservative treatment of low back pain, scoliosis, spondylolisthesis, stenosis, piriformis syndrome, osteoporosis, and other conditions.
Dr. Fishman has served as Secretary-Treasurer of the Manhattan Institute for Cancer Research, the board of the B.K.S. Iyengar Association of America, Men Care Now., (MCN) devoted to educating disadvantaged American men, and Secretary-Treasurer of the American Zoster Association. He is associate Editor of the prize-winning in Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation.
Dr. Fishman graduated the University of Michigan’s honor program with High Honors in 1962, received a B.Phil. in the Foundations of Mathematics from Christ Church, Oxford in 1965, and after years of study in India – one with B.K.S. Iyengar – received his MD from Rush Presbyterian St. Lukes Medical School in Chicago in 1981. He began his residency in the Harvard – Tufts program in general medicine, graduated as Chief Resident from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1985, and stayed on the faculty at Albert Einstein for ten years before changing to Columbia University Medical School where he remains Assistant Clinical Professor of Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine.
Dr. Fishman has written 14 books – two best-sellers – and 100 academic articles and chapters. The books focus on back pain, spinal stenosis, spondylolisthesis, scoliosis and conservative yoga and yoga-like treatment for various other conditions such as rotator cuff syndrome, restless leg syndrome, insomnia and overweight. He has given many hundreds of talks, workshops and webinars on these subjects, and a small number on more spiritual matters. He lives with his wife in New York City and has two shockingly adorable granddaughters.