Sarasota Memorial Health Care System is proud to welcome a new physiatrist to the health system’s First Physicians Group (FPG) network of physical medicine and rehabilitation physicians.
Jamuna Sivakanthan, MD, FAAPMR, is a physiatrist board-certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation. She provides inpatient rehabilitation care for patients admitted to Sarasota Memorial’s Rehabilitation Pavilion. She is an expert in designing comprehensive, patient-centered plans for a variety of orthopedic and musculoskeletal injuries, cancer-related conditions, and neurological diseases such as multiple sclerosis, stroke and Parkinson’s. Her specialties also include cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation, brain and spinal cord injury, major multiple traumatic injuries, joint replacements and fractures, amputee rehabilitation and rheumatological disease.
Dr. Sivakanthan received her medical degree from Danylo Halytsky Lviv State Medical University, Lviv, Ukraine. She completed her internship and residency at St. Francis Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
First Physicians Group Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation is located in the Rehabilitation Pavilion at 1700 S. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota. For more information call (941) 917-8561.
