Renee Rosomoff (Retired)

Renee Steele Rosomoff is a rehabilitation nurse and counselor. She has specialized in pain management and business administration as well as vocational rehabilitation, ergonomics, and case management and was the first to introduce those concepts and job simulation into pain programs as part of a concurrent integrated treatment program. Presently she is Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Neurological Surgery and the Department of Anesthesiology in the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing at the University of Miami.

Mrs. Rosomoff is the recipient of numerous awards such as the prestigious National League for Nursing- Linda Richards Award; Florida Self Insurers Rehabilitation Award; The Southern Pain Society Award for Excellence in Pain Management; the Distinguished Service Award of the American Pain Society; and the distinguished service award of the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses. She is also a past President of the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses and of the Southern Pain Society. She has served on numerous governmental, regulatory, and organizational bodies on the State, national, and international levels and is presently a commissioner on the State of Florida Pain Commission. She has also been a member of editorial boards for numerous professional journals. She is presently on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Back and Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation, has authored over 70 publications and is an invited lecturer and consultant nationally and internationally.

Recognized by UCLA John Liebeskind History of Pain Collection Library as one of six nurses in the world for her contributions to Pain Medicine- Nov. 2000