Retired Surgeon Dr. Joel Roskind to Provide Plastic Surgery Practice Management Expertise to Physicians
After a 30 year stretch as a plastic surgeon, New York’s Dr. Joel Roskind now plans to extend his knowledge to other physicians, both ordained and up-and-coming. Recognized physicians may gain from conferring with him in the regions of practice management and outpatient facility accreditation. On the clinical side, medical students at Boston University will have the chance to take Integrated Problems, a differential diagnosis class, from Joel Roskind.
Joel Roskind has been a medical renaissance man throughout his work. After finishing his bachelors degree at Franklin and Marshall College and Hofstra University, medical school at the University of Louisville and internships at the Montefiore-Einstein Medical Center in the Bronx and St. Louis University Hospitals, he went on to a fellow ship at the Christine Kleinert Institute of Hand and Microsurgery in Louisville, Kentucky.
As a practicing surgeon, Joel Roskind MD saw firsthand changes in the healthcare industry leading to an increasing number of processes being performed outside the traditional hospital setting. Always patient oriented, Roskind MD’s worries about the safety of outpatient and ambulatory surgery facilities extended to a long association with the AAAASF, including over 20 years of service as a facilities inspector. He is well positioned to assist operators of such facilities meet the highest quality standards needed by insurers today.
Joel Roskind was heavily involved with the AAAASF during the cost-induced shift from hospital to outpatient procedures, and is well versed in patient safety and regulatory compliance matters surrounding outpatient and ambulatory clinics. He has also taken a keen interest in the business side of medicine and now advises in the area of practice management.
Fulfilling the trust that patients put in their doctors has always been a part of Dr. Joel Roskinds personal mission as a physician. Through his occupation as a teacher and consultant, Joel Roskind hopes to continue to contribute to the medical profession in a broader and more comprehensive way. When he is not instructing or consulting, he plans to pursue a personal interest in Judaic studies.
