AHEC Connect
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Puneet K. Aggarwal, MD
Puneet K. Aggarwal, MD is a graduate of the Medical College of Virginia. He completed his internship in Internal Medicine at the University of Virginia – Roanoke and his residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Baylor College of Medicine. Later, he completed an Interventional Spine fellowship at Medical College of Virginia Hospital and the Sheltering Arms Spine and Sport Center. He is board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Pain Medicine.
Associations in which Dr. Aggarwal is active include the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Physiatric Association of Spine, Sport and Occupational Rehabilitation, North American Spine Society, International Spinal Injection Society and the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians. Dr. Aggarwal’s primary interests are in interventional spine care, musculoskeletal and sports medicine, as well as electromyography (EMG/NCS).
Flora M. Hammond, MD
Dr. Hammond serves as the Principal Investigator and Director of the Traumatic Brain Injury Model System Grant funded by the National Institute of Disability Rehabilitation and Research. As part of this grant, she is the principal investigator for three prospective research studies and co-investigator on numerous other projects. She graduated from Tulane University and completed her residency at Baylor University. Dr. Hammond completed a brain injury fellowship at the Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan.
She is a diplomate of the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and has served as an invited participant to both the Aspen Conference and Galveston Brain Injury Conference. Dr. Hammond is on the board of the Brain Injury Association of North Carolina and was appointed to the Governor’s Council of NC Traumatic Brain Injury.
Prior to a medical career, Dr. Hammond was a competitive swimmer and triathlete, and still enjoys exercising and staying fit. She has three young boys and cherishes time spent with her family.
Sharon Kanelos, MD
Sharon Kanelos, MD graduated from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine where her involvement included the Council of Student Organizations and Women in Medicine. She completed her internship at Carolinas Medical Center and her physical medicine and rehabilitation residency at Carolinas Rehabilitation, where she served as Chief Resident. Dr. Kanelos’s primary interests are in the musculoskeletal area, prosthetics and orthotics, lymphedema and electromyography.
Vu Q. C. Nguyen, MD
Vu Q. C. Nguyen, MD graduated from Michigan State University and completed an internship in Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics. He served as a physician in the United States Air Force, functioning as an emergency medicine physician and Interim Medical Director, and later practicing family medicine. After leaving the Air Force, he returned to residency training at Carolinas Rehabilitation where he served as Chief Resident and subsequently joined the faculty of Carolinas Rehabilitation. As of January 1, 2006, he became Residency Program Director.
Dr. Nguyen is board certified in the specialty of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. He subspecializes in Stroke Rehabilitation. His research interests involve post-traumatic amnesia, dysphagia, spasticity and neuromodulation of shoulder subluxation.
Dr. Nguyen is married to another physician. They have four children - three humans and one feline. Their current interests include hiking, camping, and going to the beach.