Dr. Philip T Kuruvilla, MD

Dr. Philip T. Kuruvilla, who has served as Chief of Service for the Kaleida Health Department of Rehabilitation Medicine since 2003, joined Buffalo Medical Group, PC, in late September. He and Mary C. Kauderer, MD, will comprise BMG's new Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

As clinical administrator of Rehabilitation Medicine for the region's largest health system, a position he will continue to hold, Dr. Kuruvilla is responsible for overseeing Kaleida's 48 Acute Medical Rehab beds at DeGraff Memorial and Buffalo General hospitals. In addition, he participates in and coordinates inpatient rehab medicine consultation services and outpatient care at four hospitals in the health system.

Board Certified in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Dr. Kuruvilla is a graduate of Trivandrum Medical College, Kerala State, India. He completed residency training in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the State University of New York at Brooklyn, where he served as Chief …Resident from 1993-94.

Immediately prior to his current appointment at Kaleida Health, Dr. Kuruvilla was Medical Director of the Medical Rehabilitation Unit at DeGraff Memorial Hospital in North Tonawanda, NY, from 1996 - 2003. He also has served as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences since 1995.

He is a member of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and the American Medical Association.