LaurentiuIuliusDinescuMD

Pain Medicine

Interventional Pain Management Specialist. Rehabilitation and Pain Management Consultant.

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Dr. Laurentiu Dinescu is a board-certified pain specialist, physiatrist, and internist in Queens NY. He received his medical degree from the University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, and did his post-graduate medical training in New York at Northwell Health, One Brooklyn Health, and Mount Sinai Health Systems. He speaks multiple languages, including Romanian, French, Spanish and Italian. He specializes in interventional pain medicine. Dr. Dinescu worked as the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PMR) Residency Program Director at One Brooklyn Health - KJMC in Brooklyn, NY, then in the same role at Broward Health System in Deerfield Beach, FL where he developed a new PMR Residency Program in 2024, and served as Past President of the New York Society of PMR.

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/Mount Sinai HospitalFellowship, Pain Medicine, 2013 - 2014
One Brooklyn Health System/Kingsbrook Jewish Medical CenterResidency, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 2010 - 2013
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell at Forest Hills HospitalResidency, Internal Medicine, 2007 - 2010
University of Medicine and Pharmacy TimisoaraClass of 2000

FL State Medical License 2021 - 2026
NY State Medical License 2013 - 2026
American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Pain Medicine

PubMed

Poster 495 Patient Experience in an Outpatient Pain Clinic: A Plan-Do-Study-Act Quality Improvement Project.
Larry B. Guinto, Giuseppe Amore, Ashish Khanna, Laurentiu I. Dinescu
PM & R. 2016-09-01
Safety Considerations During Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program
Yelena Suler, Laurentiu Iulius Dinescu
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America. 2012-05-01
Medication safety in rehabilitation medicine.
Laurentiu Iulius Dinescu, Darko Todorov, Michael Biglow, Yuliana Toderika, Henry Cohen
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America. 2012-05-01

Books/Book Chapters

Musculoskeletal Sports and Spine Disorders
Chapter: De Quervain’s Tenosynovitis
Laurentiu I. Dinescu, Mohammad Aalai, Xiaoli WangSpringerEdition 2018,2018

Abstracts/Posters

Somatosensory evoked potentials in the diagnosis of pudendal nerve neuropathy with a negative physical examination
David Cancel, Laurentiu Dinescu, Vishal Rekhala, Nahid Nainzadeh, ISPRM Meeting, Beijing, China, 6/2013
A rare case of NMDA receptor antibody encephalitis (NMDAR) presenting in disguise
Laurentiu Dinescu, David Cancel, Mathew Blando, ISPRM Meeting, Beijing China, 6/2013
Unusual delayed functional decline of a stroke patient in an acute rehab setting
Laurentiu Dinescu, Lorena Giraldo, Mohammed Zaman, Marc Ross, ISPRM Meeting, Beijing China, 6/2013
Local and systemic complications of cement material leak following lumbar vertebroplasty in a patient with cancer, a diagnostic and healthcare system dilemma
Monica Habib, Laurentiu Dinescu, Bruce Campbell, Marc Ross, AAP Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, 3/2013
The improvement of a residency consultation service – A quality improvement project
Adrian Cristian, Laurentiu Dinescu, Egan Ethan, Frederick Aziz, AAPMR Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, 11/2012
Axillary nerve injury
Laurentiu I Dinescu, Travis von Tobel, NYSPMR Meeting, New York, NY, 6/2012
Effects of long-standing, undiagnosed neurocysticercosis in an American patient admitted to an inpatient rehab unit
Laurentiu I. Dinescu, Monica Habib, AAP Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, 3/2012
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