Kirk Lercher, MD

Medical Director Brain Injury Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, New York

Dr. Kirk Lercher is a physiatrist, specialized in brain injury medicine, who practices in New
York, New York and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the Mount Sinai Healthcare
Sysmem including; and Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai
West. He serves as the Medical Director of the Brain Injury Program at Mount Sinai
Hospital and the Fellowship Program Director of the Brain Injury Medicine Fellowship in
the Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance at the Icahn School of
Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital. Prior to joining Mount Sinai Hospital in 2013, Dr.
Lercher completed his residency training at Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in West
Orange, New Jersey and fellowship in traumatic brain injury rehabilitation at the University
of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He is dual board certified in both Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation and Brain Injury Medicine. Clinically, his interests the management of all
levels of brain injury from concussion to patients with severe traumatic brain injury and
disorders consciousness with the goal of optimizing the care and maximizing
improvements in the quality of life for these patients and their caregivers. Academically he
is involved with education of students, residents and fellows. He has contributed to
multiple book chapters and has been an invited speaker at regional and national
conferences. He has multiple research and quality improvement projects and serves as
the sepsis quality improvement rehabilitation representative at Mount Sinai Hospital.