Reem Abu-Sbaih, D.O. is a 1993 graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo with a Bachelor of Arts in Biology and a minor in Cultural Anthropology and afterward she continued to study liberal arts at Birzeit University in Palestine. She graduated from the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine with honors, where she completed her undergraduate teaching fellow program in Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine. There she was inspired to learn osteopathy by many exceptional physicians including Zinaida Pelkey, Hugh Ettlinger and the Capobianco family. After completing a rotating internship at Lutheran Hospital in Brooklyn, she went on to do specialty training with Dr. Ettlinger at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, which married her professional interests in social medicine and osteopathy.
Dr. Abu-Sbaih is a life-long learner and as such loves to utilize osteopathy and homeopathy to treat various complaints from newborn to adult. As the mother of three, she has a particular affinity for optimizing mother-child health and well-being during pregnancy & beyond.
She worked in private practice in Brooklyn and Manhattan until moving to Sea Cliff, NY in 2008 to join dedicated faculty at the NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine. There, she has continued on as associate professor where she enjoys teaching interested students in both pre-clinical and clinical settings. She also enjoyed supervising OMM/NMM residents at St. Barnabas from 2015-2018. Currently, she is faculty mentor for the Physicians for Human Rights Club and is on faculty with the Department of Global Health allowing her to provide care for refugees abroad.
Her first opportunity to work with the SCTF was in 2010 as a table trainer in training. Since then, she has continued to teach with the SCTF and the Osteopathic Cranial Academy and she joined the SCTF as a new board member in 2017 in humble hopes of continuing the necessary work of Dr. Still and Dr. Sutherland.