Rate My Professor Nitin Jain

Dr. Jain earned his MBBS from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India, in 1999, and his Master of Science in Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2002. His training encompasses research fellowships in sports medicine and orthopaedics at Duke University and in epidemiology and outcomes at Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women’s Hospital, an internship in medicine and surgery at Newton-Wellesley Hospital (2006-2007), residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital/Harvard Medical School (2007-2010), and a fellowship in Shoulder and Elbow Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (2010). His research centers on musculoskeletal disorders, including rotator cuff tears, glenohumeral osteoarthritis, knee osteoarthritis pain, and spinal cord injury complications. Key publications include “Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury in the United States, 1993-2012” (JAMA, 2015), “Family History and Heritability of Rotator Cuff Tears” (J Shoulder Elbow Surg, 2026), and “Quantitative assessments of ultrasound-based rotator cuff muscle quality” (PM&R, 2026). He received the 2016 Young Academician Award from the Association of Academic Physiatrists and serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of ISPRM.