David Fish

David Eli Fish MD MPH is an American physiatrist and one of the editors of a popular PM&R handbook PM&R Pocketpedia.

After completing a residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2001, Dr. Fish completed additional training as a clinical fellow in pain medicine at UCLA School of Medicine. Dr. Fish is currently an Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at UCLA School of Medicine.

Dr. Fish is the recipient of the following:

• Foundation for PM&R Education Research Fund's Best Paper Award (2004).
  • Dr. Fish's work demonstrated that there is no statistically significant difference between two competing approaches to achieve muscle strengthening.
• Distinguished Clinician (2002), UCLA/VA Multicampus PM&R Residency Program
  • Selected by residents as the distinguished staff attending for the academic year.
• Teaching Excellence in Problem Based Learning, UCLA School of Medicine (2007)

• from Foundation for PM&R website accessed 22 Jan 2007

• Fish DE, Radfar-Baublitz L, Choi H, Felsenthal G (2003). "Correlation of standardized testing results with success on the 2001 American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Part 1 Board Certificate Examination". Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 82 (9): 686–91. doi:10.1097/01.PHM.0000083688.23340.EA. PMID 12960910. 
• Fish DE, Krabak BJ, Johnson-Greene DJ, deLateur BJ (2003). "Optimal Resistance Training: Comparison of the DeLorme and Oxford Technique". Am J Phys Med Rehabil. 82 (12): 903–909. doi:10.1097/01.PHM.0000098505.57264.DB. PMID 14627926. 

• Choi H, Sugar R, Fish D, Shatzer M, Krabak B. PM&R Pocketpedia. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins (2003). ISBN 0-7817-4433-4
• Kim H, Fish D, Choi H. Pain Medicine Pocketpedia. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins (2011). ISBN 978-0-7817-7218-1