Dr. Kristina Quirolgico is a physiatrist who is fellowship-trained in primary care sports medicine. She has a special interest in taking care of patients with foot and ankle injuries and specializes in musculoskeletal ultrasound, peripheral joint injections both with and without ultrasound guidance and PRP.
Dr. Quirolgico completed her fellowship at Rutgers - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, where she also received her medical degree. She did her internship in Internal Medicine at Overlook Medical Center in Summit, NJ, and completed her residency in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at New York Presbyterian – Columbia and Cornell University Medical Centers.
A former dancer, Dr. Quirolgico has experience providing medical care for ballerinas and modern dancers. During her fellowship, she was a team physician for Rutgers University and Princeton University Athletics covering football, field hockey, soccer, lacrosse, basketball, ice hockey and wrestling.
Assistant Attending Physiatrist, Hospital for Special Surgery
Assistant Professor, Weill Cornell Medical College
Assistant Attending Physiatrist, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
Performing arts medicine
Dance medicine
Sports injuries of the foot and ankle
Ankle instability
Foot arthritis
Ankle arthritis
Knee arthritis
Hip arthritis
Ultrasound guided peripheral joint injections
English
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BS, Natural Science/Dance, Muhlenberg College Allentown, PA, May 2008
Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ 2013
Internal Medicine, Overlook Medical Center, Summit, NJ, 2014
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, NewYork-Presbyterian Columbia and Cornell Medical Centers, New York, NY 2017
Primary Care Sports Medicine, Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ 2018
Quirolgico K. Fracture, posterior malleolus. In: Achar SA, Taylor KS, eds. The 5-Minutes Sports Medicine Consult. 3rd ed. Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer; 2020.
Quirolgico K, Krystofiak J, Conway J, Como B, Altobelli A, Putukian M. Echocardiographic findings after abnormal pre-participation screening including ECG: A Division I University's 5 year experience. Oral poster presentation at the annual AMSSM conference on April 27, 2018.
Quirolgico K, Scott C, Townsend C. Pain, PM&R, and performing artists. Podium presentation at the annual PAMA international symposium on July 2, 2017.
Quirolgico K, Giambrone A, Ayyoub Z, Edgley S, Dunning K, McBride K, O'Dell M. Early versus late response to foot drop stimulation in persons with stroke. Podium presentation at the first annual Research Day at Weill Cornell on September 16, 2016.