Affiliate: Dr. Richard Linchitz, MD

He is a Medical Doctor who is board certified by the American Board of Pain Medicine, the American Board of Clinical Metal Toxicology, as well as the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

He’s a member of the American Academy of Anti–Aging Medicine, the International College of Integrative Medicine and the International College of Oxidative Medicine.

He’s the recipient of several Physicians Recognition Awards by the AMA.

He has been a long-term bodybuilder, tri-athlete, and more recently, Yoga student. He also has extensively studied herbal and other natural nutritional approaches to health.

He began studying Eastern Philosophy and Meditation almost thirty years ago, and to this day follows a daily Mind-Body Fitness regimen.

He fought back from a rare hereditary cancer and severe back injury using the same natural adjunctive approaches that he describes and teaches to his patients.

Education

• 1967 B.A. in Psychology, graduated Cum Laude, Cornell University
• 1973 MD, Cornell University Medical College, graduated in the Alpha Omega Alpha, Medical Honor Society
• Internship & Residency 1973-1974 Moffitt Hospital, San Francisco, California: Medicine
• 1974-1977 Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute.

Hospital Affiliations

• 1977 to Current: Long Island Jewish – Hillside Medical Center Attending Affiliates Psychiatrist
• 1979 to 2004: North Shore University Hospital, Attending Affiliates Psychiatrist
• 1995-1999 North Shore University Hospital, Senior Assistant Attending, Department of Neurology
• 1995-1996 St. Vincent’s Hospital Medical Center of New York, Department of Anesthesiology & Psychiatry, Consultant to Pain Center
• 1995-1997 Co-Director of Pain Center at St. John’s Hospital

Awards

• Alpha Omega Alpha, honor medical society.
• Nathan Seligman Award at Cornell University Medical College
• National Psychiatric Endowment Fund Award
• Commendation from the White House during the Carter Administration

Clinic Affiliations

• 1978 to 2000: Pain Alleviation Center, Medical Director. This was the only outpatient pain clinic in NY nationally accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities.
• Currently, medical director of Metropolitan Medical Health Care and Wellness, PLLC.

Type of Practice

Currently practicing integrative medicine with an emphasis on lifestyle management, focusing on improving patients’ health through diet, supplements, proper regimens of exercise and rest, and stress management. Additionally, we use modern techniques of uncovering and treating evidence of toxicity in the body which can interfere with our maximum potential for health.

The modalities currently being practiced at Metropolitan include:

• prolotherapy (an innovative, safe and effective technique for pain management).
• sclerotherapy (a safe non surgical method of lasting and even often permanent pain relief from back pain, neck pain, joint pain and muscle and ligament pain).
• neural therapy which is also a method of pain control through reducing inflammation due to surgical and other scars.
• mesotherapy (a safe method of dissolving small fat deposits in "problem areas" including thighs, abdomen, hips, 'love handles', and even under the eyes).
• lipotherapy which can help with "cellulite" and stretch marks.

You can reach Dr. Linchitz at 516-759-4200

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