Joel Roskind Plans Active Retirement as a Consultant
Dr. Joel Roskind is retired from plastic surgery, but busier than ever offering expertise harvested from 30-year work to physicians and medical scholars. As a surgeon, Joel Roskind MD specialized in body enhancements, but he also made a point of acquiring multiple interests in the medical domain, giving broad know how and perspective which he now plans to leverage as a lecturer and adviser
Dr. Joel Roskind, who ran a Long Island plastic surgery clinic specializing in body enhancements for over a decade, brings a wealth of clinical knowledge as well as academic expertise, and experience in the business of medicine. He is also intensely engaged in the area of practice management, which deals with hiring and training staff, setting up electronic systems and patient relations.
He then joined the United States Navy and served as part of a three-man plastic surgery team. During that time, he traveled to Mexico to do surgery on underprivileged children with congenital deformities. Also during that time, he began his teaching work at the University of California, San Diego. He has gone on to advise at the Nassau University Medical Center, North Shore University Hospital, Cornell Medical School and the University Of Miami School Of Medicine. He will now be lecturing for the second time at Boston University School of Medicine.
Dr. Joel Roskind will also draw on his clinical experience to lecture Integrated Problems at Boston University. The class will cover complex problems in differential diagnosis, a subject with which he is intimately familiar. Roskind also brings a wealth of expertise in practice management, which deals with business aspects of medicine, such as hiring and training staff, setting up electronic systems and patient relations.
Fulfilling the trust that patients put in their physicians has always been a top priority for Dr. Joel Roskind. He feels that he can continue to contribute to best practices and patient safety in a broader and more comprehensive way through his career as a instructor and advisor. When he is not teaching or consulting, Joel Roskind plans to pursue a personal interest in Judaic studies.
