Physician Profile

Syed A. Hasan, M.D., F.R.C.S.

Dr. Hasan is an assistant professor of medicine, in the Division of Neurosurgery at the University of Connecticut Health Center. He is an  interventional spine physiatrist at the Comprehensive Spine Center at the New England Musculoskeletal Institute. Dr. Hasan trained as an orthopaedic surgeon and physiatrist and he specializes in non-surgical management of diseases of the neck and back.

Appointment

• Assistant Professor, Division of Neurosurgery, UConn Health Center

Specialty

• Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Subspecialty

• Non-surgical and interventional management of acute, non traumatic neck and lower back pain and spine
• Diagnostic/therapeutic selective nerve root block
• Transforaminal epidural steroid injections
• Radiofrequency medial branch rhizotomy
• Lumbar discograms

Certification
American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Education
M.B.B.S., Rawalpindi Medical College
F.R.C.S., Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Glasgow

State Licensure
Connecticut

Residency
Erie County Medical Center: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Fellowship
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine: Interventional Spine

Awards
Best Resident Research Presentation Award, University at Buffalo School of Medicine

Research Interests

Clinical Research

• Safety and efficacy of the cervical transforaminal injections.
• Percuteneous disc decompression.