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Director of Brain Injury Services, Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation (East Orange, NJ)
Director of Spasticity Program, Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation (East Orange, NJ)
Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Neurosciences, UMDNJ-NJ Medical School (Newark, NJ)
Specializing in: Brain Injury, Neurological Disorders, Pain Management, Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, Spasticity Management, Stroke.
Dr. Fellus received his medical degree from UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (New Brunswick, NJ) and became board certified in neurology in 1998. He was Chief Resident of Neurology at Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, PA) and completed a Neurorehabilitation Fellowship at University of Maryland's Kernan Rehabilitation Hospital (Baltimore, MD).
Dr. Fellus, who joined Kessler in 1997 as a staff neurologist, now serves as the Director of Brain Injury Services. He is the attending physician on the special brain injury unit at Kessler's East Orange facility, and oversees the brain injury unit at Kessler's Welkind facility in Chester. Among his special interests in neurology and neurological rehabilitation are the medical management of spasticity, pain, and cognition. He also serves as a neurological consultant for all facilities throughout the Kessler system.
Dr. Fellus lends his expertise to several important research projects on the pharmacologic intervention for cognitive and behavioral deficits in patients with traumatic or acquired brain injury and the non-surgical management of spasticity, including the use of BOTOX and Intrathecal Baclofen.
In addition, Dr. Fellus frequently appears on nationally televised news programs as an expert in the field of traumatic brain injury and is often called upon as a legal expert in this field. | 