Who I am

Jasmin Harounian, MD is a fellowship-trained, board-certified Interventional Spine and Sports Medicine Physician who currently practices at Optum Orthopedics (previously Riverside Orthopedic Institute) in Rutherford, NJ.

She received her undergraduate degree in Neuroscience and graduated Cum Laude from the University of California, Los Angeles. She then went on to receive her medical degree from the University of California, Irvine prior to completing her intern year at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. She completed her residency training in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, where she served as Chief Resident during her last year of residency and helped navigate her program through the COVID-19 pandemic. Her fellowship training in Sports Medicine and Interventional Spine was also completed at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. During this time, Dr. Harounian helped establish the Women's Sports Medicine program at Mount Sinai - a unique program specifically designed to help the musculoskeletal needs of adult and elderly women.

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What I do

Dr. Harounian specializes in the diagnosis and non-operative management of comprehensive spine and musculoskeletal injuries. She understands that, at some point, everyone experiences aches and pains, and her goal is to restore function, decrease pain, and improve her patients' overall quality of life.

In order to help her patients, she implements a wide array of treatment options - from targeted medication management and physical therapy exercise prescription to peripheral injections and musculoskeletal ultrasound, which evaluates a patient's soft tissues and joints in real time to provide a better understanding of what is causing their pain. Her interventional spine procedures include but are not limited to fluoroscopic(or X-ray)-guided cervical, thoracic and lumbar injections, medial branch blocks, and radiofrequency ablations.

Dr. Harounian is a member of several organizations including AAPM&R, AMSSM, and AAP. She held a nationally elected position as the PM&R Representative on the American Medical Society Sports Medicine Council and has worked with athletes of various levels and backgrounds: from weekend warriors and recreational joggers to marathon runners and USA Fencing Olympians. She has served as a clinical textbook editor and authored several textbook chapters, as in A Case-Based Approach to Shoulder Pain, Essential Sports Medicine, and Telemedicine for the Musculoskeletal Exam, among others. Her clinical and research interests include regenerative medicine, sports-related injuries, female athletes, innovations in interventional spine procedures, and concussion protocols.

  • Treating
    musculoskeletal
    issues

  • Non-operative
    pain
    treatment

  • Ultrasound
    and fluoroscopic
    guided injections

  • Targeted
    physical
    therapy

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What I Say

Dr. Harounian has served as an editor, authored several textbook chapters, and presented at several conferences. See below:

Publications

May 2023
Harounian J, Herrera JE.
Book Chapter. "Sports Medicine and Adaptive Sports," Braddom's Rehabilitation Care: A Clinical Handbook, 2nd Edition, in publication

Mar 2023
Harounian J, Trentman C, Chang R.
Book Chapter. "Examination of the Hip," Telemedicine for the Musculoskeletal Exam, pp 125-134

Dec 2022
Harounian J, Cooper G, Herrera JE, Curtis S, eds.
Editor. A Case-Based Approach to Shoulder Pain: A Pocket Guide to Pathology, Diagnosis and Management. Springer International Publishing; 2023

Dec 2022
Freedman B, Harounian J.
Book Chapter. "Fractures," A Case-Based Approach to Shoulder Pain, pp 107-120

Dec 2022
Harounian J.
Book Chapter. "Shoulder Pain Case Studies," A Case-Based Approach to Shoulder Pain, pp 141-155

May 2021
Ramin J, Harounian J.
Book Chapter. "Elbow and Forearm Injuries," Essential Sports Medicine, 2nd Edition, pp 203-219

Oct 2020
Harounian J.
Book Chapter. "Curling." Sports Coverage: The Handbook for the Sports Medicine Clinician, 1st Edition, pp 219-222

Conferences

Nov 2020 - Virtual
AAPM&R Virtual Annual Meeting
Harounian J, Ilizarov S. Utility of Contrast-Enhanced MRI in Diagnosis of Foraminal and Far Lateral Fragmented Disc Herniations: Two Case Reports

Apr 2020 - Virtual
ASMSSM Virtual Annual Meeting
Harounian J, Chang R. Heel Pain in Recreational Tennis Player: Use of TENEX in distal Achilles tendinopathy.

Mar 2020 - Orlando, FL
AAP/ISPRM Annual Meeting
Harounian J, Escalon M. To Bank or Not to Bank? - The Use of Augmentative and Alternative Communication in a Patient with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.

Nov 2019 - San Antonio, TX
AAPM&R Annual Meeting
Harounian J, Lercher K. Multifactorial Acute Psychosis in a Glioblastoma Multiforme Patient: A Case Report.

Feb 2019 - Puerto Rico
AAP Annual Meeting
Harounian J, Chiou M, Chun A, Patel VB, Huang V. Pre-Post Treatment Urodynamic Studies in a Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury Patient with Silent Autonomic Dysreflexia: A Case Report

Feb 2019 - Puerto Rico
AAP Annual Meeting
Harounian J, Escalon M. Acute neurosurgical intervention in the subacute stroke patient with known underlying severe cord compression: A case report

Feb 2019 - Puerto Rico
AAP Annual Meeting
Chiou M, Harounian J, Tewari A, Brown L, Keswani A, Escalon M. Weaning a Spinal Cord Injury Patient After 19 Years of Mechanical Ventilation-dependent Breathing

Oct 2014 - Portland, OR
3rd World Congress on Ultrasound in Medical Education
Combs JW, Harounian J, Kasimoglu IH, Patel MK, Pina-Paz S, Said S, Smith T, Fox JC. Evaluating effectiveness of didactic methods in medical student ultrasound education

May 2012 - UCLA
13th annual Neuroscience Undergraduate Poster Session
Harounian J, Fears SC. Neuroimaging Structural Phenotypes in Bipolar Disorder

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