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Dr. Jain is a tenured professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Orthopaedic Surgery. He serves as vice chair of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and chief of the section of Musculoskeletal Medicine and Research. In his institutional role as UT Southwestern’s co-director of Musculoskeletal and Sports Medicine, he leads the UTSW sports and musculoskeletal clinical and educational programs. As director of the UTSW Musculoskeletal and Sports Research Program (MSRP), he leads the institutional collaborative research program with the goal to increase extramural funding. Dr. Jain holds the endowed Dallas Rehabilitation Institute Distinguished Chair in Orthopaedic Rehabilitation at UTSW. A sports medicine specialist, he is an expert at treating nonsurgical musculoskeletal disorders.
Dr. Jain earned his medical degree at the Baroda Medical College of Maharaja Sayajirao University in India. Following a research fellowship in sports medicine and orthopaedics at Duke University and a research fellowship in epidemiology and outcomes at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, he completed a residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital/Harvard Medical School. He received advanced training in shoulder surgery through a fellowship at the Harvard Shoulder Service. He also holds a master’s degree in public health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dr. Jain has published more than 100 peer-reviewed original manuscripts and has written many articles and book chapters on these subjects. He has received funding from the National Institutes of Health and Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute for research in sports medicine and musculoskeletal disorders including genetics. He is a deputy editor for the American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, associate editor for Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery and he serves as a reviewer for numerous scholarly journals.
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