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A medical graduate from the University of Toronto, Canada. He completed additional residency training in Family practice, Emergency medicine and his current specialty of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (Physiatry). He is an active member of the American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine and previously with the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback and the Canadian Medical Acupuncture Society. He serves as executive director for the Canadian Association of Orthopaedic Medicine and as advisor/past president for the Chinese Canadian Medical Society. In addition, he is board certified in the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, the American Board of Independent Medical Examiners and the American Naturopathic Medical Association. Dr. Ko recently completed additional subspecialty board certification in Pain Medicine.
Dr. Ko is currently the medical director for the Canadian Centre for Integrative Medicine at 12 Main St. North, Markham, Ontario L3P 1X2. Telephone: (905) 471-9355. Fax: 471-4348. website: www.MusclePainRelief.ca. With specialists in physiatry, rheumatology and anesthesiology working alongside allied health professionals (physiotherapy, chiropractic, psychology, nutrition, acupuncture, biofeedback), Dr. Ko’s clinical focus is on electrodiagnosis and multidisciplinary treatment of chronic musculoskeletal pain (particularly back pain, failed surgery pain syndromes, fibromyalgia).
At Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Sciences Centre, Dr. Ko is director of the Fibromyalgia Treatment Clinic, in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine. He focuses on investigating the ABC’s of pain treatment including Alternative therapies (topical O24™ essential oils, thermoflow garments, ETPS acupuncture, naturopathy) Botox / prolotherapy injections and Cannabinoids (synergy with opioids). Dr. Ko is co-author of the book: The All-in-One Guide to Natural Remedies and Supplements. (AGES Publications. 2000). He is the lead author of a recent major review paper on fibromyalgia (Critical Reviews in Physical & Rehabilitation Medicine 2005: 17:1-30). He continues to lecture, teach medical students/ residents, author peer-reviewed articles and has academic appointments as Associate Professor and Dean of the School of Integrative Medicine, Rutherford University and Lecturer in the Division of Physiatry, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto. | 